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(10-16-2018, 05:31 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Such silliness...
There was plenty of time on the clock and they had 2 timeouts. Bengals were inside the steelers 40 at the 2:00 warning. Dave Lapham agrees and Mo Eggar agrees.
Link to Eggars and Lapham. I want to hear exactly what they say the Bengals should have done to burn more time.
Anyone who claims a team that has not scored a td in an entire half can ease up and waste plays 34 yards from the end zone with 2 minutes left doesn't know much about football.
Unless you want to limit the offense to using the sidelines you only get 8 or 9 plays in 2 minutes with 2 timeouts. And that is going no-huddle which can limit an offense's ability to call plays or make adjustments.
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(10-14-2018, 11:58 PM)jorev5 Wrote: I totally agree, mixon could've stopped at the 1yd line. Kill some clock
Was talking to a guy at work and he said the same thing. But, I can't recall having ever witnessed a player with an open path to the end zone doing a slide or flop at the one yard line, at any level of football. Not to say it hasn't happened somewhere at sometime, but it'd have to be a pretty rare occurrence.
The opportunities to burn time (letting the play clock run down, staying in bounds) were already lost by the time Mixon was handed that ball. He had to finish it off, so I cant blame him.
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I would think about it this way. Would you rather put the game on the line with the ball, 1st and goal on the 1 yd line, with a minute to go, or give the ball back. I'd rather put it in the hands of our offense
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People complain when the Bengals take too much time off the clock and also when they don’t. The Bengals put faith in their defense to do their job and they didn’t. Point blank.
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