08-26-2022, 06:24 PM
(08-26-2022, 05:17 PM)fredtoast Wrote: False equivalency.
Aaron Donald has been making that same play consistently for years. So, no, it did not look like a fluke when he made that play. But none of the best QBs in the league have converted a 3rd-and-25+ in the last 4 years before Burrow did it.
Same thing with our defense "shutting down" Mahommes for the second half of the Championship game. Our pass defense finished in the bottom half of the league in the regular season. Mahommes had burnt them for a 113.1 rating in the regular season and a ridiculous (almost perfect) 149.9 rating in the first half of the Championship game. That does not look like a great defense shutting down a great player with "talent and coaching" because that same "talent and coaching" had been there all year with much different results.
Except that the 2nd half says the total opposite. Coaches made adjustments. Players stepped up and made big plays. You're defeating your own arguments with this logic. They literally made a great QB look like an overwhelmed rookie in the 2nd half.
At this point, you're just putting your head in the sand and refusing to give the Bengals coaches and players any credit.
