09-12-2022, 11:11 PM
(09-12-2022, 09:55 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Zac was worried the Steelers would challenge it as incomplete:
"That one just falls on me, to be quite honest with you," said Taylor, who says he should have called timeout even though he was down with less than three minutes left. "Just slow down. Slow down. What I could see was a bunch of incomplete hand signals. It's literally the worst field position in football for me to be able to see over there to that far pylon through a bunch of people. So just trying to gauge that we're not discussing an incomplete pass. We're discussing a possible touchdown. Slow it down, let us see the call. I can just do a better job of taking the information I'm hearing and giving it to Joe. I was quick to spit out, 'Hey, let's get on the ball and snap a play here to beat their challenge potentially before realizing that's not the issue. "
https://www.bengals.com/news/clark-harris-goes-to-ir-as-rookie-cal-adomitis-gets-call-in-bengals-notes
Watching the game on TV, I never got the impression that might have been a touchdown until after the next play was run. One of the announcers said just short of the goal line and that the ref was looking right down the line and he had the best view. After the play was run, then it was brought up. The original replay angles they gave us, from the upfield side, make it look short because Chase went out quite short. It became a controversy only after they ran the play.
Still, to count it as 7 points and a win is not accurate. Harris was out at the 13-minute mark and would not have been snapping. There were 3-minutes left and who knows what Pittsburgh would have done with 3 minutes and 3 time outs and only needing a field goal. And the Bengals ended up anyway scoring as the clock was running out. It was not, by any means, the make or break decision of that game. The fact that they might have won, when they didn't, gnaws, but it was not "the Bengals would have won the game if they challenged." Won the challenge most likely, but no way to know on the game. Might even have lost to a field goal in regulation time. No one knows. And so not worth looking back.
