05-19-2016, 11:36 PM
(05-19-2016, 11:10 PM)McC Wrote: Pretty sure nobody's taking anything away from the defense. When it was money time, he came through. The fourth quarter is where legacies are made and he delivered.
As I understand it, it is the defense's job to keep points off the board, although they weren't too successful on the Steelers' winning drive.
AJ walked off the field at about the two minute warning with the lead. I call that doing enough to win. If you can't, then that's you with some weird thing against him.
Well in fairness, how many times has Dalton ever had the opportunity to be the 4th quarter hero? Other than Texans 2.0, we were always down multiple scores in the 4th.
I remember a lot of people blaming the poor defensive efforts on Dalton's turnovers, yet our D seemed to handle multiple turnovers from McCarron just fine.
I know you didn't really mention Dalton, but I just don't think he's had many chances to play hero after multiple turnovers like McCarron did. So is a great defensive performance the difference between a QB being a choke artist and being a (almost) hero? Sure seems like it.
If the D allowed 180 rush yards and 28 points, no one would be talking about McCarron having a good 4th quarter. They'd be talking about the INT, 3 fumbles and 68.3 rating. The 18 points scored against an awful defense.
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