Are The Steelers Good or Just Lucky?

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(02-12-2018, 10:47 AM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: Here’s the thing Brad: if you put ANY team’s championship journey under a microscope the way you’ve done here, you are bound to find a few moments that, if they had gone the other way, might have changed things.  There’s so much parity today that a team with a career backup can beat the GOAT under the right circumstances.  In other words, there’s a fine line between winning and losing theses days.  So, to say that one team is lucky while another (which had it’s own game-turning moments) is somehow more deserving than the other is nothing more than sheer fanboy bias.

(02-12-2018, 10:59 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: I have to agree and almost all teams need some good luck along the way to win it all. It may be in the playoffs or championship game or I remember a simple dump off pass to Ray Rice years ago on 4th and forever he somehow turned into a 1st down propelling the Ravens to the playoffs. Flacco then gets hot in the playoffs and they win it all. Remove that play and Ravens were sitting home instead of raising the Lombardi.

And look at the Patriots.

This season they had more scoring drives aided by a penalty that any other team...and more first downs by penalty than other team.

So even when they made mistakes they got more chances to correct them.

That alone gives a team a better chance of winning.  Especially when they are a really good team that makes few mistakes anyway.

Just three extra chances a game to try again when you failed can be huge in a single NFL game.