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Tomlin's challenge explanation doesn't make any sense

It's one of the things Steeler Head Coach struggles the most with, when to review plays.

It happened again on Sunday, Diontae Johnson thought he had a touchdown, but wasn't called one.


Tomlin said there is someone in the booth to alert him when to call a challenge but wouldn't give a name.

He also had an argument that Joe Starkey called preposterous

"You don't always get an opportunity to get a timely look at things in particularly as it pertains to scoring plays, often time I proceed with the assumption that if they call it a non-scoring play then I believe (the referees) are now speculating in anyway," said Tomlin. "Obviously we have automatic replay for scoring plays and that component that mechanism I think if there was any question in their judgement they would've called it a scoring play and allowed the automatic review to happen."

Starkey said the week before, in Cleveland, Browns coach Kevin Stefanski challenged a non-scoring play and it was then ruled a touchdown.

"Just because they call it a non-scoring play, doesn't mean you don't challenge, that's what Tomlin said," said Starkey.

Tomlin has a long history of blowing challenges.

This season he's 2 for 5 and overall in his career has had only 38 of his 91 challenged overturned.