4th and 1... Where is the Media backlash?

[CJD]

(10-15-2018, 04:47 PM)fredtoast Wrote: When it is a 14-14 tie and we just got stuffed on 3rd and 1.

Better to make the Steelers drive 90 yards than 60.

And anyone who thinks we should have tried NOT TO SCORE a td at the end of the game when we had scored ZERO POINTS in the entire second half is crazy.

Why is that crazy? The Steelers seemingly allowed Mixon to score. It was their best chance of winning that the Bengals score that easily. Why play into their game?

 The Bengals should have done their absolute best to down it at the 1 and then taken more time off the clock. If you can't pound the ball into the endzone in 4 tries from the 1 yard line, you don't deserve to win anyway.

And that's not even accounting for just managing the clock better on that drive to begin with. Like...why snap the ball with 15 seconds on the play clock? If they ran into time trouble, they had 2 time outs themselves.

Not burning more clock or at least forcing the steelers to use their timeouts gave Roethlisberger the entire field on his final drive, which made stopping him an absolute pipe dream.

I get trusting your defense, but when a team is in 4 down territory, it's really hard to stop them from gaining 40 yards. And with 1:18 and 3 TOs, time was not a factor at all.