As I watched the SB

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(02-09-2016, 10:39 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Bengals beat that team in their stadium, when their defense was healthy.  They nearly beat them with a backup QB.  Don't worship fat azz and the boys too much.  They still have a weak secondary and the Bengals have the one defense that can control their offense.  

So the Steelers couldn't have won the Super Bowl with their starting QB and the top RB in football because we beat them once this year?  Interesting.  Ok, I'll buy it.  The Bengals totally shoulda won.  Let's just put this SB trophy in our case next to the imaginary one we won in 2005 and call it a day.

(02-09-2016, 11:25 AM)Essex Johnson Wrote: The difference there is Williams had an exceptional year so he made up for Bell as a whole and Ben was back when it most counted for them at the end of the season and playoffs.  We lost Dalton at the worst possible time... and Eiffert missed a decent amount at the end of the season that hurt us since we did not have the type of backup performance like Williams did for Bell.... 

Bengals were a better team than Steelers this year with injuries included.

But...we lost twice to them.  Again, I'm on a Bengals message board so I realize fantasy trumps reality here, but I'm starting to worry about the sanity of this place.  Dalton and Eifert are magically healed, Bell isn't, Ben isn't, we won 1 of 3 but we won the only one that really counted, and so on and so forth.

Fair enough, I just wouldn't expect us to bowl over the Steelers in 2016 just yet.  I've never seen a team declare domination over a rival that beat them twice in a season, but maybe I can learn.

Wait, I can do this. If we woulda fired Marvin Lewis after 2010 we'd have Palmer and Green tearing up the league with that defense and have Dalton ready to take over for Palmer and probably have won like twice by now. Bruce Arians could be our HC, and all that, too!