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Does anyone have any screenshots of the blatant holding that the Steelers were getting away with?
(Nothing ticky-tacky)
I have a meme in mind that I would like to photoshop.
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I don't personally but if you go to the below Twitter account they were retweeting tons of pictures and GIFS of Shittsburgh holds last night:
https://twitter.com/BengalsTalk
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I don't have one, but a perfect one would be where either Geno, or possibly Dunlap had beaten their man and actually was reaching to grab Ben, while the OL had him in a choke hold from behind. Saw that on at least two plays.
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Hi, Derp Morelli here to miss the blatant holding calls.
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Don't forget about missing touchdowns, and seeing fumbles that don't exist
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(09-19-2016, 10:18 AM)jonesy84 Wrote: Don't forget about missing touchdowns, and seeing fumbles that don't exist
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You're preaching to the choir. There is absolutely nothing we can do except forget and move on.
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(09-19-2016, 10:03 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I don't have one, but a perfect one would be where either Geno, or possibly Dunlap had beaten their man and actually was reaching to grab Ben, while the OL had him in a choke hold from behind. Saw that on at least two plays.
Or the one where Geno reached over blocker to get hand on Ben while he was throwing and you could clearly see both hands of lineman full of Geno's jersey.
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I thought the worst one was on Michael Johnson. The O-lineman had him in a straight up choke hold.
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(09-19-2016, 10:49 AM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: I thought the worst one was on Michael Johnson. The O-lineman had him in a straight up choke hold.
The one on a third down conversion run by Pittsburgh was blatant as hell too.
The announcers stated the run was successful due to poor tackling.
When in "replay reality" it was Carlos Dunlap being tackled from behind by an Offensive lineman.
Even when being tackled Dunlap still managed to get one arm on the ball carrier.
LOL The Ref watched the whole play yet no flag.
Total BS.
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There were definitely a lot of calls that should have been made, but, I'm sure you can find a few that the Bengals got away with.
The one against Johnson was pretty egregious though as well as when you can clearly see Atkins' jersey getting pulled.
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(09-19-2016, 10:23 AM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: You're preaching to the choir. There is absolutely nothing we can do except forget and move on.
You can send them to the league office and tell them to pull their heads out of their @$$es
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(09-19-2016, 11:12 AM)BengalFanInNJ Wrote: There were definitely a lot of calls that should have been made, but, I'm sure you can find a few that the Bengals got away with.
The one against Johnson was pretty egregious though as well as when you can clearly see Atkins' jersey getting pulled.
Hell, they flat out tackled Hunt on one play....
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(09-19-2016, 11:11 AM)BengalsRocker Wrote: The one on a third down conversion run by Pittsburgh was blatant as hell too.
The announcers stated the run was successful due to poor tackling.
When in "replay reality" it was Carlos Dunlap being tackled from behind by an Offensive lineman.
Even when being tackled Dunlap still managed to get one arm on the ball carrier.
LOL The Ref watched the whole play yet no flag.
Total BS.
Not only were there literally no holding calls.
steelers were so blatant in doing so that it seemed they were told it would not be called beforehand.
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It's instances like this were the OWNER needs to come out publicly and defend his players and the poor officiating. It's the only way to get it addressed, and be very firm to the NFL about certain refs not allowed to call Bengal Steelers games. Until then, it's the same old same old.
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(09-19-2016, 11:47 AM)Tomkat Wrote:
Well, you know, at least that play happened in a crowd, where the refs would have a hard time seeing it. It certainly wasn't like it took place in the open field while Johnson was trying to defend against the opposing team's QB or anything. Nitpicking really.
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Doesn't matter, this is just the way things will be. The NFL has painted us out to be the bad guys in this rivalry, so naturally the refs will be looking to throw flags on us, and not on the Steelers.
Get ready for more of the same on Dec 18th. We will lose again, because the Bengals beating the Steelers is bad for the league, and no one wants to see the "bad guys" lose.
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