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.