05-27-2023, 11:17 AM
(05-27-2023, 10:51 AM)Wyche Wrote: Good points all around.....if there ever was a fluke, it was that game. Losing a long snapper and it causing all of those issues? Yeah, that's a case study in flukes.
Joe Burrow and the defending AFC Champs vs Mitch Trubisky. Should never have been close enough to be a "fluke".
Just simply winning the turnover battle wins you the game 78% of the time over the years. So if the Bengals won that game it would have actually been a bigger fluke than losing it considering the Bengals were -5 in turnover differential. The Chargers recently made history by being the first team in NFL history to lose in the postseason despite having a +5 turnover margin to give you an idea of how fluky it would have been for the Bengals to not lose that game. Not even touching the 7 sacks the Bengals allowed.
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