So here we are again folks. The 2017 NFL season has started and we are kicking off our WTF weekly series with a bang!

Or should I say with penalties?!?

Who didn’t have them this week? It kicked off with the Thursday opening game featuring the Kansas City Chiefs spanking the New England Patriots 42-27. The Chiefs tallied 15 penalties, and a turnover… and still won the game.

The Steelers, in what most of us thought would be a blowout against a very young team led by a rookie quarterback, had 13 penalties in their narrow victory over the Browns.

WTF Guys?

I mean a win is a win, but can we cool it with the penalties, please?

Sometimes when I write this column or join Joe Kuzma on the WTF Podcast, it’s hard to tell if we are discussing the WTF’s of the week or the bloopers and practical jokes of the week.

Maybe it’s some of both.

Taking a cue from teams around the league, newly acquired Raiders RB Marshawn Lynch, came out of retirement only to be caught flipping off, I’m not sure who, into the network camera during their game Sunday against the Titans.

In the press conference after the Rams/Colts game, in-the-hot-seat coach Chuck Pagano erroneously gave credit to the 49ers for playing a great game against his Colts… wait for it… he played the Rams.

WTF?

The Jaguars, unfortunately, lost one of their best players, wide receiver Allen Robinson, to an apparent ACL/MCL injury. The WTF in that game was the camera showing Jags QB Blake Bortles lovingly slapping the knee of Robinson as to say… get better soon buddy.

Too bad it was the injured knee! (Ouch.)

Don’t even get me started on the Jaguars defense scoring 50+ fantasy points this week… yeah I lost that matchup!

On the Steel City side of things, we had the first blocked punt for a TD since 1998.

WTF? It’s been almost 20 years? Woah.

Let’ss give Big Ben a shout out for the best tackle of the day with the “ankle grab” of Browns defender Emmanual Ogbah. Ben later said on his radio show that he was protecting his players.

From what exactly I am not sure, but it was a hilarious sequence for sure! AB even got on Twitter to replay the video with “hey that’s my quarterback”.

Keeping with the levity of the moment, we probably should not sign up T.J. Watt to Dancing with the Stars just yet. His sack dance left something to be desired. But as a female fan, I will take the butt wiggle any day from T.J.

Now for my angry WTF of the week. So the Steelers are finally picking up momentum in the game late in the 3rd quarter, and CB William Gay was flagged for a 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness after he places a hard hit on Browns WR Ricardo Louis.

The officials threw a flag on the play, but only after they were caught watching the replay on the Jumbotron inside the stadium.

WTF?

Coach Tomlin was none too happy about the situation, making mention of it in his weekly press conference.

The rest of us were wondering in what universe is that okay? There are always going to be missed calls by officials, as it’s part of the game. But if there was no call to the league by the Steelers on Monday morning to angrily get in the face of what these officials did, then the league is setting a precedent of letting officials take time to watch a replay and then throw a flag based on the outcome. That completely discredits the rules. Penalties are called at the time of the play, not after the fact.

WTF big time here.

Was it a penalty?

Maybe. But they missed it and I am sure at some point Gay will get his fine in the mail. But this is an issue that must be addressed ASAP, or teams will be at a huge disadvantage the rest of the season.

I would be remiss if I did not mention the Monday Night Football WTF games. First, Adrian Peterson had six carries for 18 yards for New Orleans against a team that dumped him last year.

The best WTF is saved for last. The game went into the wee hours on the East Coast as the Denver Broncos blew a 21-7 lead over the LA Chargers (that still sounds weird). With 18 seconds left, they were one field goal away from tying the game and going to overtime.

Only a 19-yard field goal by their rookie kicker, who apparently never misses, stands between them and extending the game even longer into the early morning.

He makes the try and… no wait, the new coach of the Broncos iced the kicker by calling a timeout.

The Chargers had to try again.

And you say ‘That never works?’

Well, it never works until it does. Poor guy. WTF. Broncos’ win 24-21.

Here we go until next time!