Bengals vs Steelers

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(05-20-2017, 10:57 AM)Pat5775 Wrote: You're right, the orange uniforms were worn during the 2012 game. My bad, but I remember the rest of the game just fine. 

I guess my definition and your definition of "drubbing" are not exactly the same. That 2013 home game was a sloppy showing from both teams. How can you throw stats and scores aside? They tell a huge part of the story and it looked to me like we just happened to be the slightly less sloppy team that night. Don't get me wrong, I was ecstatic we beat them at home in a Primetime game but we hardly looked like world beaters and the steelers resembled the Browns all game long. 

We won the division in 2013 and the 2013 steelers were one of the worst teams of the Roethlisberger era, yet they still managed to beat the ever loving s*** out of us several weeks later in Pittsburgh. That was the game where the scoreboard didn't tell the whole story. I believe we were down 30-7 going into the fourth quarter yet we lost by a final score of 30-20, making it look way better than it really was.

It's not just about the quarterback, it's not about the overall talent, and it's certainly not about good or bad luck... It's really about the coaching. Pittsburgh has a coach who isn't a complete chicken s*** and Marvin grew up a diehard steelers fan and is now coaching in Cincinnati... You do the math. 

1. My definition is clearly different than yours too, but that's fine.
2. (Bold Italic) I only said that because we had set the tone and dominated them the whole game; if you include stats:
- we outgained them by 130 yards
- No sacks (I believe 8 hurries were all the pressure surrendered by our line), while we had 2 and disrupted 'berger all night.
- No turnovers forced, while we had 2
- TOP won by 11:00+
- 7/17 3rd down, vs 3/12 for 'burgh
- Won by 10 and gave up 0 points in the 2nd half

So yeah, looking at that, we still dominated them. The ONLY thing they were better at that night, were penalties (3 vs 9 for us), but when have we ever had less penalties in a game than the Stoolers?

3. Indeed; we basically forced them into a Browns game and we dominated.

4. While we were indeed down 30-7 in the 4th, the EOG numbers were all VERY similar; it wasn't the one-sided affair that the first game was, but your argument is basically moot, as we split the season series, each having decent games against the other team, at home. If we were demolished in both contests, your argument is absolutely valid.

5. You're right; when MJ is full nelson'd and not a single holding penalty is called in 60 minutes of a football game, it isn't luck; its clear bias and bullshit.

6. Yeah, I'm not falling for the conspiracy crap or that "*****," crap; I guess Tomlin is a complete idiot who folds against Bmore, because he was born in Virginia, right?

Some things can't be explained; the problem with the world today is that everybody has to make everything out to be black and white, when 95% of EVERYTHING in the world, be it people, behaviours, sports, food, whatever the ****, is grey and is NEVER black and white.

How the AFC North plays each other is a complete grey situation and it always will be. History since 1990, proves that.