Which team was a better team 2005 or 2015

[Essex Johnson]

(05-11-2020, 05:34 PM)bfine32 Wrote: What made the 2015 team more talented than the 2013 team?

As to the rest: BS, but we've been down that road before. You mention the 118 yards on 19 carries but fail to mention 1 was for 58 yards when the Bengals were selling out on defense trying to get the ball back with 2:27 left in the game after the offense had turned the ball over for the 5th straight series. Take away them desperately trying to get the ball back and the Chargers rush for 60 yards on 18 carries. We held Rivers to about 120 passing yards.

Ben average over 5 YPC that game. But somehow that's not running over somebody, but our D couldn't stop the run because we held them to 3.3.YPC in the 2nd half until the one fluke play

Saying the defense is to share equal blame for that 2013 loss and do so by using one play instead of the whole game is like saying Andy Dalton is an elite QB because of a 10 game stretch in a 9 year career.

The Chargers ran the ball 40 times in that game.. what that tells you is they were able to control ball even if it was not big runs..  Rivers did not need to throw when you are able to run that much and get first downs and he was efficient when he did 12 out of 16 with a passer rating of 119 . As much as i respect Zimmer.. his defense did not do well overall in the playoffs especially against the run.. Also they had ZERO takeaways and gave up 20 points in 2nd half.( i understand short fields with turnovers but first drive in 2nd half.. Rivers was 6 for 6 and a TD that put them in the lead for good). Dalton was bad 2nd half and good 1st half.. he three for over 330 was 29 out of 51.. but his turnovers were very costly.  In the end this game both the offense and defense had chances to turn this into a Win but neither did....