10-15-2018, 10:08 PM
(10-15-2018, 07:42 PM)wolfkaosaun Wrote: When you've only beaten a division team 8 times in your 16th season, you should probably change up your coaching strategy.
I mean, the Bills have a better win percentage against the Patriots than the Bengals against the Steelers in this decade.
This... You can't keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. At the end. Not one single Bengals fan was "shocked" that the Steelers won. Sure we scored our TD with under 2 mins to go and that would be a great thing. IF not for the Steelers having ALL 3 TOs, and only needing a FG to win.
The Steelers have won many of their games against us in similar fashion. Letting us get the lead and making sure there is time on the clock to make their offense has a chance. If we want to beat the Steelers, we have to go for it on 4th and 1 in our own territory, and we have to learn how to milk the clock down until there is less than 30s left in regulation. If we would have ran on 1st down after the 2 min warning, the clock either runs or they take a TO. Throw on 2nd and 3rd down.
I could understand it if our Defense was getting pressure on Ben but he was clean all game. Sure there was a lot of holding that wasn't called, but good teams don't rely on the mistakes to win games. They accept any help their opponents want to give, like not going for it on 4th and 1 or not milking the clock, but they don't rely on it.
