Which team was a better team 2005 or 2015

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(05-11-2020, 01:23 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I have no idea what your point is, but I will make mine very clear.

Anyone who thinks it is impossible to score a td with less than a minute left doesn't know anything about NFL football.  

The game would not have been over if we kick a FG.  The defense still had to stop the Stealers.

I don't excuse Hill, but it is crazy not to place a good portion of the blame on our defense.  Even though Ben was hurting the Stealers went 74 yards in less than a minute.

My point is you said "It is 100% wrong to claim the defense never had to play another snap to seal the win." but nobody claimed that.
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Except they didn't.

Hill fumbled at 1:36, the first Steelers play was at 1:23, they got the penalties at 0:22, and they kicked the FG at 0:18. More than a minute.

That was with the D being gutted by the O immediately giving back their turnover, and the Steelers knowing they only needed a FG to win rather than a TD.

Now imagine the Bengals burned the time with 3 runs (even with the TO that's what, 4 seconds a run? 12 seconds) then you have a FG which burns another 5 seconds, 17 seconds. Then you have a kickoff that you'd short kick so they had to return it (another 6+ seconds, 23 total). That's a conservative estimate.

 You give the Steelers 1 minute 13 seconds (at the very most), 0 TO, and tell them they need to score a TD to win against the 2nd scoring defense in the NFL? Yeah, that is a Bengals win.