Why Beating Pittsburgh Matters

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(07-23-2017, 08:23 PM)bengalguy71 Wrote: This is one reason why I've moved from a 50 yard, fourth row fan, to an endzone, upper deck, fourth row fan.

I do not trust the NFL anymore.

Folks have already come out and admitted preferential treatment for certain teams, and after watching the last 2 Pats championships, I can't help but wonder.

I don't believe the players are involved but I do question how Seattle can call a pass play with first and goal at the one yard line with the best running back in football, OR how Atlanta could call pass plays in the fourth quarter with a big lead.

Ehh, Falcons had the current best QB in the league throwing to one of the best WRs in the league within a modern NFL where a defender looks at a WR too hard and they get a 1st down and a big chunk of yardage.  I get it.  Nothing too crazy about trying that play.  It's particularly interesting to hear Bengals fans wonder why they threw the ball when we pin our latest playoff loss on being stupid enough to hand the ball to Jeremy Hill.  Different RBs, but you get my point.

With Seattle, well people never shut up about how awesome Russell Wilson is so roll him out and if nothing is open he runs for the corner of the endzone.  Standard stuff, he just forced the pass and it got picked.  It happens.  Nothing here seems too out of the ordinary to me, but we may never know.

(07-23-2017, 09:12 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: I couldn't agree more Fan ! In many ways the Pittsburgh monkey on our back is as big as the playoff monkey. In some ways maybe bigger !

We're 2-14 at home against the Steelers under Marvin Lewis including playoff losses. That has to stop

The problem is that it most certainly does NOT have to stop.  Marvin Lewis and Mike Brown are immune to accountability.  Well, Mike Brown clearly is, and Marvin Lewis is his trusted boot-licking henchman.  We've known for years that the Bengals aren't an organization that holds itself to the same competitive standard that the Steelers do.  It sucks, but that's the way it is.  What other team can go 2-14 at home against a division rival and maintain such a consistent base of leadership?

Winning isn't as important to Mike Brown as it is to that damn Rooney clan.  We are plagued by indifference, not incompetence.