01-09-2017, 02:50 PM
(01-09-2017, 10:20 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: Exactly.
People can talk about the organization and how its full of "winners" and blah blah blah all day, but it comes down to the talent on the field.
The Steelers just have better players right now than the Bengals. Its that simple.
This explanation would work if the Steelers being more successful than the Bengals were just a recent thing. Guess they've always "just had better players".
(01-09-2017, 10:24 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: If you were
an owner and you had to to start a team from scratch, which QB would you take, both in their prime? Dalton or Ben?
If you had to start one of those guys in a playoff game tomorrow, who would you take? Dalton or Ben?
Thats what I thought.
Ben of course. What's the point? First off, Ben is a HOF QB, so he's better than almost everyone. Good luck finding another guy like him. Second, the biggest difference between the Bengals and Steelers right now is not Ben > Andy. It's that their ownership has more championships than our ownership has playoff wins. It's that their coach won a title in year 2 while our coach doesn't have a playoff win headed into year 15. It's that they drafted Bell after we drafted Gio (Ben was 8-8 twice in a row before Bell). It's that they hire a proven OC who had been to a SB as an OC, while we promote some lifer QB coach that no one had showed interest in for 14 years (including us).
Btw, to those saying the Steelers stink without Ben, they're actually 14-11 without him. Landry only threw for 277 and 3 TDs in his last start. Not saying Ben doesn't clearly make them better. Just saying they don't exactly fall apart, either.
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