09-12-2022, 11:26 AM
(09-12-2022, 10:56 AM)swilson3828 Wrote: I think anyone who knows anything about football pretty clearly saw Chase's right foot land on the goal line while he was still in bounds. Instant replay also showed Chase shifting the ball to his right hand when that happened. Clearly a TD that the dumb ref chose not to call. Why did Zac not throw a challenge? All that were watching saw what happened before the next play so those bums would have had to see it to. Zac calls that challenge, it's a TD, and all of this missed XP and missed FG stuff is no more. Instead they try to get cute and run a stupid QB draw on 1st and an inch for a TD and get stuffed in the backfield. Zac gave some bs reason for not calling the challenge but you could tell it was bs. An inexcusably stupid decision not made followed by an inexcusably stupid decision that was made..........cost Cincy the game. You halfway expect stupid things from the players, but you want to think the coaches are the ones to keep things in check. Then there is Zac
It did not "cost Cincy the game." First (1), you assume "this missed XP and missed FG stuff is no more." We don't know. Apparently, our long snapper was already out of action by that time. Second (2), Chase gave no indication that he though he scored, the announcers didn't bring it up until after the next play and indicated he was short, so it wasn't an obvious score at the time. Third, (3) if it had been ruled a TD, then there would be three minutes left. The Steelers, assuming the Bengals did score the extra point, would be in four-down plays, with 3 minutes, and multiple timeouts and only would need a field goal. How are you to know they would not have gone down and scored? They drove down twice in OT and without the urgency of needing to score or having four downs.
As it was, the Bengals scored with almost no time on the clock (and if Chase misses that ball, the clock might have run out).
I look back at life more than most, but even I don't look back on this one at all.
