Look, the Stealers were going to win that game before the kickoff.
85% of the fans in the crowd were waving urine colored towels around. The refs feared for their lives that day and made the calls that made sure they returned home with all family members unharmed. Not a soul in the media looked into the possibility of a payoff for fear they themselves would just not make it home one night. It was a mafia thing.
It didn't matter what QB played that game, but Russ might have avoided a sack that Hass couldn't, and may have found the wide-open receiver in the other end of the endzone rather than throwing to the pushing-off D-jack. If memory serves, Joe J was standing there waving is arms he was so alone on that play.