Bengals steelers lessons for bills

[trapezeus]

After a year of way too many penalties for the bills, I hope they see how crushing those dumb mistakes can be. I hope they see how they are close to the bengals in terms of lack of discipline and while we lost games this year because of it, no one came out looking like burfict. And jerry Hughes easily could have.

As as for the game itself, if that was the bills losing like that, I would be inconsolable for weeks.

[OpIv37]

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Lesson #1: make the ****ing playoffs first

[pmoon6]

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Burfict was leading with his shoulder and Brown ducked his head. How do you prevent that? Burfict was trying to dislodge the ball.

Then Porter, who had no business being out there in the first place, started talking ****. Was Pac-Man wrong, well I guess so because the officials said so.

The Stealers confirmed their nickname yesterday. They have been dirty since the Steel Curtain, but they always seem to avoid getting penalized for the most part. The refs gave the game to the Stealers and Jones gave them the excuse.

[HHURRICANE]

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Pacman is a douche. That's all on him.

[justasportsfan]

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Lesson #1: make the ****ing playoffs first

Traps post is spot on. Penalties are preventing us from winning thus keeping us out of playoffs

[k-oneputt]

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Burfict was leading with his shoulder and Brown ducked his head. How do you prevent that? Burfict was trying to dislodge the ball.

Then Porter, who had no business being out there in the first place, started talking ****. Was Pac-Man wrong, well I guess so because the officials said so.

What about Shaziers helmet to helmet hit on Bernard that wasn't called, that was worse then Burficts hit.

The Stealers confirmed their nickname yesterday. They have been dirty since the Steel Curtain, but they always seem to avoid getting penalized for the most part. The refs gave the game to the Stealers and Jones gave them the excuse.

[Thurmal]

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Burfict was leading with his shoulder and Brown ducked his head. How do you prevent that? Burfict was trying to dislodge the ball.

Then Porter, who had no business being out there in the first place, started talking ****. Was Pac-Man wrong, well I guess so because the officials said so.

The Stealers confirmed their nickname yesterday. They have been dirty since the Steel Curtain, but they always seem to avoid getting penalized for the most part. The refs gave the game to the Stealers and Jones gave them the excuse.

I hate Pittsburgh and was obviously pulling hard for Cinci, but I thought that Burfict threw an unnecessary elbow at Brown's head way, WAY after the ball had flown past him. That guy is a true nutcase; makes the stuff Hughes does look like the equivalent of an illegal motion penalty.

[BuffaloRedleg]

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The lesson is that culture trumps talent.

[Mr. Pink]

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Burfict getting flagged was the right call. Even James Harrison said it was the right call according to the league even if it was a clean play in his own mind. And that's James Harrison who for a while was collecting trips to the league office like no one's business.

Pacman getting flagged was a little ridiculous without Joey Porter drawing a flag. Porter was jawing too. If anything if they're gonna flag Pacman, then Porter should have been flagged too.

Although Pittsburgh had a 50 yard FG already after Burfict and woulda still had one more play to gain a few more yards before attempting a FG, so who knows if Pacman's flag even did anything to affect the end of the game.

The kick as it was looked like it woulda been good from 50 anyway.

[Crisis]

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Hughes can be an idiot a lot of the time but he's nowhere near Burfict levels of dirty. That guy is a piece of ****.

[Mr. Pink]

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There was only one call/non-call that really bugged me in that game...

Shazier's hit on Bernard.

Once I saw that happen, no flag, I knew the game would get chippy til the end and figured someone on Pittsburgh would get lit the F up because of it. Burfict was just an idiot and waited til the wrong time to do it.

[kscdogbillsfan1221]

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just moved from pittsburgh 2 years ago after living there for 6 years. I loved it there but the Steeler fans are some of the most idiotic, ridiculous, obnoxious people on the planet so because of that I freaking hate that team.

That said, because I'm married to a steeler fan I have watched most of their games over the last 8 years and outside of New England, I have NEVER seen a luckier team in my entire life. Literally every ball bounces their way. Every major call goes their way. If 7 things need to happen in order for them to win a major game, or make the playoffs, they do. They needed at least 2 miracles to win last night. (a quick turnover and idiotic penalties) and got both of them. They needed to win and get help to make the playoffs and they got that. This is the dirtiest thing i've ever said but I was actually openly rooting for the freaking new jersey jets so the steelers wouldn't make the playoffs

It's absolutely infuriating because I hate them SOO much because of their douchebag, spoiled, idiotic fans.

end of rant.

[YardRat]

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Yeah, the Steelers got the benefit of two instances of calls/non-calls (four, I guess, in reality).

Burfict's hit was nasty and deserved a flag, but so did Shazier's. Porter should have been flagged, and that would have offset PacMan's.

[trapezeus]

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I guess I wasn't clear. But the bengals were viewed as instigators from the start due to the history. And when the flags get thrown at the end, it's the highly penalized team that gets in. Not the other chippy team who is seen as clean.

The shazier sequence bothered me. Helmet to helmet. They reviewe the play but not the penalty and shazier is taunting everyone including the hurt player without flags. Refs lost control of that game from that point on. The bengals felt like they had to take it into their own hands because the refs wouldn't sort anything out.

[BillsImpossible]

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Steelers linebackers coach Joey Porter should have been flagged for being on the field.

http://www.sbnation.com/2016/1/10/10743904/steelers-bengals-joey-porter-foul

Coaches aren't allowed on the field.

That said, why didn't the Bengals take a knee with 1:36 left?

Instead of running the ball and fumbling, couldn't they have just taken 2 kneel downs, a delay of game penalty, and punt the ball with less than 30 seconds to play?