10-16-2018, 03:38 PM
(10-15-2018, 04:38 AM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Time remaining isn't irrelevant. The defense didn't do the job but the offense could have done more. All they talked about in the post game against Atlanta was how they didn't want to leave much time on the clock for Ryan to work. They were completely under control on that last drive and had plenty of time.
Not running another play before the 2:00 minute warning was good, even though that dork Fouts was saying "they need to try and run another play before the 2:00 warning"...uhh, duh, they're inside the 40 with 2 timeouts left, no they don't. Running out of bounds and snapping the ball with 15+ seconds left were preventable mistakes that would have caused pitt use their timeouts or allow some time to run off the clock.
If you need a TD you score when you have the chance period. What happens if you run it to under 10 seconds and then have an injury with no TO's? We had to have a TD to win and the offense did their job , period. The defense let the Bengals down , yes but the Steelers had a hell of a lot of help. We should have had them at 4th and 10 outside of FG range but they called a bogus holding on Dre K. and conveniently forgot the rules a couple of seconds later. I will take having the lead and 4th and 10 on the other team any day. Not only that, the defense had stopped the Steelers. They only had put up 6 points in the half until that point. If its so easy why did the Steelers leave us 3+ minutes on the clock? Why didnt they just run the time out?
