09-23-2023, 09:32 PM
(09-23-2023, 06:37 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Oh, I remember too well. He was stale that game until AJ did his AJ thing. And the loss? I felt like I was just told I have 1 week to live. Horrible week for the boards too. So much anger and heartbreak.
I think to be fair its difficult for a team to have a WORSE loss. Super Bowl losses aren't fun of course, but the Steelers game was almost impossible to write.
Going into that game, we hadn't won a playoff game for 25/26(?) years.
We started that year 8-0 right? We looked a real contender, and then Dalton gets an injury against... the Steelers.
McCarron comes in and does a serviceable job. Team is very decent and goes 3-1(?) with him.
Steelers in the Wild Card game... we did have to pull off a pretty decent comeback, but we had that game won the second Burfict picks Landry Jones off. Even when Hill fumbled it away, we're still favourites.
A hobbled Roethlisberger and two of the most stupid game losing penalties you will see later, and a team of great promise has it's season ended and it's playoff drought extended, in ridiculous circumstances by a foe we despise.
Must have felt like we'd never recover from that at the time. Fortunately for me, I picked a great time to go on holiday and not be able to catch the game live!
Even though he had a pretty pedestrian game, I think it showed a lot that McCarron was able to lead those drives at the end. Guy seems to have 'winning' elements to his game, just isnt talented enough to start full time. Will be interesting to see what he still has.
