Wildcard Weekend - 1/9 8:15 p.m. ET - Pittsburgh at Cincinnati (CBS)

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I give the Bengals some credit after that non-call on the helmet to helmet hit though. They did get off the field, forced the Steelers to punt, and got good field position/subsequent TD shortly there after. Despite being down 15-0, and what seemed an insurmountable deficit, they battled and never quit.

The rest is on them. I still, for the life of me have no idea how you allow give a team 30 yards in personal foul penalties, especially when the QB needed a play down field and basically/arguably playing with 1 arm. Just the most bizarre ending to a game. I had no idea a team, a playoff team, could unravel and be that undisciplined. For that alone, Marvin Lewis should be fired. At least make the other team beat you, don't beat yourselves.
 
Patriots71 said:
Remember the hit last year that Browner did where McCourty ran it back for a td? That was 3 steps and it was not even to the head.
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This one?

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Anyone else do a Forest Whittaker eye whenever they hear Bart Scott talking about controlling your emotions and maintaining your discipline on the field?

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TipRoast said:
I woke up this morning and thought I would see a headline that said Marvin Lewis had been fired.

If that performance by his team last night doesn't get him canned, then he's got a job for life.
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This. after your team has huge issues with discipline in your prior meeting with this same team, your players do this crap? you're either coaching it or allowing it to happen.

To be fair, i do think Lewis is a better hc than Tomlin. tomlin is a disgrace to the profession.
 
MontanaBrady said:
Bengals got screwed. Half of it was their own fault, but half of it was the refs. Again.
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How was it the refs? I'm all for blaming the refs when they are incompetent, which they too often are, but that was on Cincy last night. Complete meltdown.
 
Mazz22 said:
You go for two every time and try to get up by 3. Being up 1 or 2 points makes no difference there.

The right call was to run after the pick. The Cincy RB had picked up 6 or 7 yards before the fumble. One first down there and game is over. It was a great play by Shazier to strip it out.
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I wouldn't have done it...I would have forced the Stealers to use their TO's...kick the field goal...and make their offense win it with hardly any time left on the clock.

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Mayo1251 said:
How was it the refs? I'm all for blaming the refs when they are incompetent, which they too often are, but that was on Cincy last night. Complete meltdown.
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I seen a lot of non calls that should have been called on the Stealers...
 
As usual, even when the Pats aren't playing, they win.


The Bungles will NEVER fire Lewis if this didn't make it happen. They will never be a threat to the Patriots in the AFC.
 
PumpDee said:
As usual, even when the Pats aren't playing, they win.


The Bungles will NEVER fire Lewis if this didn't make it happen. They will never be a threat to the Patriots in the AFC.
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The Pats have WON a ton this season from the ineptness of the other teams, in particular AFC teams.
 
Big/Sky/Fly said:
I wouldn't have done it...I would have forced the Stealers to use their TO's...kick the field goal...and make their offense win it with hardly any time left on the clock.
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Not I. If it would have put them up by 8 or more, sure. But to leave them with their offense on the field and a chance to win it, with a 2x super bowl winning QB at the helm, seems foolhardy. Going for the 1st down is playing to win in that situation imho, no matter how it actually played out.

During the Lions - Packers game earlier this year, it drove me *absolutely nuts* when they had the ball and were in a similar situation, and it was assumed by *everyone* (correctly, I might add) that they would run for 3 plays and then punt it back to Aaron Rodgers with around 50 seconds left. I knew it, the commentators knew it, the opposing defense knew it, and somehow it was acceptable. Go figure, they run 3 plays, don't get the 1st down, punt it away, Aaron Rodgers does what a good QB will do and wins the game. I was absolutely livid they didn't aggressively go for the 1st down and put the game away, when that was all that was required for a win, even if it meant passing to get it. And it ended up costing them the game.

tl;dr: If Cincy gets the 1st down there, they win. I can't blame them at all for going for the win.
 
chevss454 said:
Pacman went on a tirade about the officiating and the idiot posted it on Instagram. Watch part of it here (nsfw), saved before it was deleted as Deion Sanders suggested in a text to Jones. In the 2nd video below Pacman is more "mellow" (drugged up) after 10 minutes of "reflection". 15 yds for talking to a Pitt coach & that moved Pitt into ez fg range for the win. lmao. Bungles

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He hasn't changed his tune.

Pacman on Antonio Brown: “I know he was faking it”

Posted by Mike Florio on January 11, 2016, 10:34 AM EST

In the heat of the moment, after the Bengals saw a win turn into a loss after back-to-back penalties on Vontaze Burfict and Pacman Jones gave the Steelers a 35-yard field goal, Jones suggested that the hit that sparked the 30-yard swing didn’t actually injure Pittsburgh receiver Antonio Brown.

After having a chance to cool off, Jones still believes Brown wasn’t hurt.

“I know he was faking,” Jones told The Dan Patrick Show on Monday.

Jones, who tried to insist that Brown was barely hit in the head, claimed that Brown winked at Jones on his way off the field.

“I think he need a Grammy Award for that one,” said Jones, who previously offered to give Brown an Oscar.

As to the flag thrown on Jones after the flag thrown on Burfict, Jones said the penalty came from making contact with an official. But Jones was upset that Steelers linebackers coach Joey Porter was on the field.

“He was just over there calling them bitches,” Jones said of Porter’s interactions with other Bengals players.

“Coaches are held to a higher standard than players,” Jones said. “Period, point blank.” He added that offensive line coach Mike Munchak should have been ejected after pulling the hair of Bengals safety Reggie Nelson during a bizarre first-half sideline altercation.

Jones also said that the hit from Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier on Bengals running back Gio Bernard was worse than the hit on Brown (more on that later).

Pacman also disputed reports that some unnamed Bengals players think coach Marvin Lewis has failed to control the team’s defensive players, both on Saturday night and throughout the year. And Jones firmly believes that Lewis should return.

Jones, who is due to become a free agent, may not return to Cincinnati. There’s a good chance he also won’t be signing with Pittsburgh.

Then again, given the gift he provided to the Steelers on Saturday night, maybe he already has earned his signing bonus there. Or at least a Grammy.
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Well he's in the concussion protocol so he must be a reaaalllly good faker.
Stop making excuses for going off the chain, Pac. KTHXBYE.
 
The AFC North is just a downright dirty division. It's not even that it's good, tough football. It's just bitchy and childish.
 
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