Revisiting the Stains loss

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(11-30-2021, 03:14 PM)Whacked Wrote: Let’s not live in the past.

What’s done is done.

Water under the bridge.

Yada yada yada. I get it.

But that loss and AT HOME (!) still makes me scratch my head.

We got the same smack down that we just layeth on the Stoolers

What exactly happened? How can we make sure this doesn’t happen again - especially not the final game of the season where we will surely be needing a win.

This part is inaccurate.  pissburgh couldn't move the ball on the Bengals at all.  The Bengals moved the ball up and down the field, but then would self-destruct.  I think the poor defense was at least partly due to three consecutive road games the three prior teams.  Only one other team in the NFL had that, the Colts.  And in their third road game, they ironically also had a 12 point lead in the fourth (Bengals had 11 point lead in NY) only to lose it.  

The bye was much needed and they did some good self-scouting.  It was a game where everything went wrong, just like everything went right against pitt.

It is also the ONLY loss of the year by more than 3 points.  And look at the Browns now...unraveling.  Kareem Hunt's father is now on social media.  That teams is a turd storm and a perfect example of why culture matters.