Steelers Wide Receiver On Referees: 'They Must've Got Paid Good Today'

Steelers wide receiver Diontae Johnson wasted no time tearing into the officials after Pittsburgh's loss on Sunday.

The former Pro Bowler was most upset about a neutral zone infraction that negated a Chris Boswell field goal that would've brought the team within three before the half.

Standing at his locker, Johnson went in on the refs. Saying, "They must've got paid good today."

Refs were just killing us the whole game. The same refs we had at training camp. I didn't like the refs today. At the end of the day, we can't keep complaining about the refs. Like Coach [Mike Tomlin] say, we can't worry about the refs, whatever. But everybody's different. ... I didn't like the refs today. They must've got paid good today or something, but they blew - that field goal, that hurt us coming into the half. We needed that.

Diontae went on to allege that the referees "wanted" the Jaguars to win.

They was calling some stupid stuff. They should get fined for calling bad, making worse, terrible calls and stuff like that. That's how pissed I am. They cost us the game. I don't care what nobody say. They cost us the game. [The officials] wanted [the Jaguars] to win, bro. They was calling, everything was in their favor. They was getting every little call, but it is what it is. But we can't, like I said, I'm moving on from it. I'm ready for Thursday.

Pittsburgh dropped to 4-3 with the loss and may be down starting quarterback Kenny Pickett as well after leaving the game with a rib injury.

They'll face the Titans Nov. 2.