Mike Tomlin called the league's officiating "a joke." He probably won't find the league's response to his remarks funny -- especially after he indicated on Tuesday that On Wednesday, Tomlin got fined. and , the NFL fined the coach $25,000 for his criticism of officials, which came after the Steelers' win over the on Sunday.During his pre s conference, Tomlin, who was likely irritated by a questionable roughing-the-pa ser call that went against T.J. Watt, More on the
Golden Tate III Jersey NFL "But some of the other stuff, man, is a joke," Tomlin told reporters. "We gotta get better as a National Football League. Man, these
Saquon Barkley Jersey penalties are costing people games and jobs. We gotta get 'em correct. And so I'm pi sed about it, to be quite honest with you. But that's all I'm gonna say on it." On Tuesday, ."I said what I said after the game," he said, per . "I meant it, but I have no further comment."Tomlin's hardly the first coach to expre s discontent with the state of officiating. In the offseason, coach Mike Zimmer said -- a rule that has seldom been enforced through the first five weeks of the season."It's going to cost some people some jobs," Zimmer said at the time, via NFL.com. "Playoffs, jobs, the whole
Dalvin Tomlinson Jersey bit, I gue s." But most of the criticism has been reserved for the enforcement of roughing the pa ser after the league made the body-weight portion of the rule a point of emphasis. The first few weeks saw a sharp uptick in such flags, leading to the competition committee, of which Tomlin is a member, to discu s the state of the rule during a conference call after Week 3. Following that
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