02-04-2016, 08:19 AM
(02-03-2016, 04:41 PM)Savagehenry54 Wrote: You're not ********, you know we got screwed. Tell yourself whatever you have to. The refs handed you the game, egregiously so, and we took it from you anyway until Hill fumbled and the idiotic but understandable personal foul calls. The bias was clear. The refs weren't protecting Bengals players at all so the players had to protect themselves and they boiled over with the back to back personal foul calls at the end. But when you're playing the refs and your opponent, sometimes you lose your shit I guess.
Gmdino, McCarron was playing better and better the more 1st team reps he got, it was clear who the best team in the AFC was, especially if Dalton could have been back for a possible AFC title game. The patriots just weren't that good at the end of the year. Drew the best possible match up they could have when they got KC. Bengals would have whupped them with McCarron and hoped Dalton was back for Denver or KC, a game KC had a better chance in to the division familiarity.
I don't play the 'what if' game. What happened happened, and there's really no way of knowing what would have happened if a few plays were called differently.
Despite what you're telling yourself, there's absolutely no guarantee the Bengals would have even won the game if the Gio hit had been penalized. There were too many variables still at play. You were still down by more than one score at the time, and it would have changed the course of events that led to Ben getting injured. Heck, who's to say that a Shazier penalty in that moment doesn't lead to both Ben and Brown staying healthy, with the Steelers still winning and going on to the SB themselves?
But here's the thing: while I recognize the necessity of the words 'could have' in this scenario, you seem 100% certain that the Bengals would have not only won, but would have had a clear path to the Lombardi. They may very well have done both, but to be 100% sure of it, as you seem to be, is a delusion and a fantasy.
