Pulling for the Bengals until......

[Kevin Greene]

Just now, Davidson Deac II said:

18 Seconds with no timeouts.  Maybe they hit a quick pass near the sidelines, or maybe they can get up to the line of scrimmage and spike it.  But it would have been dicey. 

The Bengal players were simply a reflection of the Brown's and the entire Bengal management in crunch time. Since they were, we'll never know what a couple quick outs might have netted the Steelers.

[tiger7_88]

5 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

god that gets uglier every time i watch it.

It was just as ugly the first time too.

But some 'old school' football players on this forum seem to think concussions are just character building and intentional shots to the head are just all in good fun.

[Gazi]

[pstall]

What sucks the most is my sports hate for the Steelers is borderline pathological.  For those jackasses to win this way burns.

[PhillyB]

2 minutes ago, Ruff said:

So, hypothetically, you would've been okay with Coughlin grabbing Norman and not OBJ?

no, but i wouldn't measure them as equally offensive. 

[DaveThePanther2008]

6 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

god that gets uglier every time i watch it.

if it weren't for burfict's history i could see this being accidental. for instance if it was luke keuchly it would've been a freak accident perhaps actually inspired by god for something bad antonio did that he deserved to pay for

I was about to say the same thing.  The announcers all but came out and said he was the cause of couple of Steeler injuries earlier in the game.

[pstall]

1 minute ago, PhillyB said:

no, but i wouldn't measure them as equally offensive. 

I agree. I just don't see what Jones think he was going to accomplish. 

The reformed gambler in me smells a rat. 

[Mr. Scot]

3 minutes ago, tiger7_88 said:

It was just as ugly the first time too.

But some 'old school' football players on this forum seem to think concussions are just character building and intentional shots to the head are just all in good fun.

I'm very old school, and I think that hit was dirty and Vontaze Burfict is an idiot.

[Jangler]

6 pages of Who gives a sh!t.

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

10 minutes ago, SCMunnerlyn1 said:

He was undrafted. 

Pac Man Jones was traded for...Burfict had major red flags and a worse 40 time. Point is...the roster has cornerstones that are unstable and trash. 

It would be like building the team around Greg Hardy.

They have drafted-coddled and seek problem children on the regular. 

[pstall]

Oh and if you laid the points it was a push. Lol lol

[tiger7_88]

2 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I'm very old school, and I think that hit was dirty and Vontaze Burfict is an idiot.

Ergo my qualification of "some".

Thank you for actually NOT being insane.

[Sapper]

Yea, the sad part is even at full speed you can see he has plenty of time to make the rational choice not to take the extra 2 steps and hit Brown (a penalty in all situations btw).

Instead stays on his route and lowers his shoulder for a blow to the head.  How is this hit being defended by anyone as legal?

[Ruff]

2 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

no, but i wouldn't measure them as equally offensive. 

The concept is the same, though. A coach, who honestly had no right to be on the field (brown is a WR, Porter is the LB coach), got into the middle of a scrum in a rivalry game that he used to play in, grabbed a player. That's a dick move.