{"id":468397,"date":"2023-11-05T13:01:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=468397"},"modified":"2023-11-05T13:01:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T17:01:15","slug":"pittsburghs-johnson-fined-for-criticizing-referees","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pittsburghs-johnson-fined-for-criticizing-referees\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh\u2019s Johnson fined for criticizing referees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers WR <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/diontae-johnson\/\">Diontae Johnson<\/a> was fined 25,000 for his post-match comments ripping the referees after his franchise\u2019s defeat against the Jacksonville Jaguars in the past weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The NFL fined Diontae Johnson $25,000 for calling the NFL Officials out. Then fined on two separate occasions Jaylen Warren $48,000 for blocking. Yet they fined Adam Gotsis $7,167 for his hit that injured Kenny Pickett. NFL has it out for the Steelers. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NFL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blitzburgh (@Blitz_Burgh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blitz_Burgh\/status\/1721183815316439423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The wide receiver, who wasn&#8217;t included in the initial list of fines in the weekly report, questioned the integrity of the referees and claimed that the officials helped Jacksonville to triumph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were not officiating according to the rules,&#8221; Johnson claimed past Sunday. &#8220;They must be held accountable for calling bad, making worse, terrible calls. That&#8217;s how mad I am at the moment. They cost us the match. I don&#8217;t care what nobody says. They were the reason that we got defeated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Diontae added that the referees wanted their opponents to win, and they called everything in the Jaguar&#8217;s favor. According to Johnson, every little call was in Jacksonville\u2019s favor, but he can\u2019t do anything about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers WR Diontae Johnson was fined 25,000 for his post-match comments ripping the referees after his franchise\u2019s defeat against the Jacksonville Jaguars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":468398,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21361,17324,17148],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[21362,17873,18446],"acf":{"announce":"Diontae will have to pay a 25K dollars fine.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468400,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468397\/revisions\/468400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468397"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=468397"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=468397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}