Are The Steelers Good or Just Lucky?

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(02-16-2018, 01:43 AM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: Yeah, it apparently does give you an excuse to reject objective reason.  Ignorance really is bliss, I guess.

I'm the ignorant one and ignore objective reasoning when you're the one claiming that the Steelers would have won that game when the Bengals were set-up to score a TD on the first drive and you don't see every other factor in the game from the injury related to emotion?

Steelers fans are blind to any reality of the world that doesn't point to them being the greatest franchise in the history of sports.

(02-16-2018, 01:43 AM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: But here's a thought for those of us who live in the real world: momentum shifts happen all the time in football.  Having it at one point in the game doesn't guarantee that you'll keep it the rest of the game, or even until the next play.  

Here's 3 examples, all from the 2005 Bengals' season:

Against the Jags that year, the Bengals recovered a kickoff fumble on the Jacksonville 21.  Lots of emotional momentum there, right?  It resulted in 3 points.  Against the Titans, Carson completed a 35 yard pass to the Tennessee 5. Surely a splash play like that revved up that offense to the point where a TD was inevitable, right?  The drive ended in a field goal.  Against Cleveland Rudi Johnson ran 32 yards to the Browns 5.  The trip across the goal line was just a formality at that point, no?  It ended in another field goal.  And those are just a few of the examples I found before I stopped looking.  I have no doubt that there were more.  

The point is that 'momentum' is too fluid to be a reliable predictor.  It can literally shift at any moment with one bad play, injury, or penalty, and does not in any way make a team invincible.

Jags game: The Bengals were also already down 20-10 and on the road when the fumble happened.  Not exactly the same as a team's biggest rival on at home in a playoff game trying to win for the first time in the postseason since 1991 and completing getting down there on the first play of the game.

Titans game:  On the road, delay of game and then a holding penalty brought it back to the 20, which they still almost scored a TD.  Not exactly the same as a team's biggest rival on at home in a playoff game trying to win for the first time in the postseason since 1991 and completing getting down there on the first play of the game.
 
Cleveland game:  late in the game and we were obviously playing conservative because we were up two scores, not trying to be aggressive and score a TD like we obviously were in the playoff game.  Not exactly the same as a team's biggest rival on at home in a playoff game trying to win for the first time in the postseason since 1991 and completing getting down there on the first play of the game.

You do research and post it like it makes it a valid argument when you're actually posting misleading facts that actually prove you wrong.