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Kenny F'ing Powers

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This is the least satisfying ending to a football game I've ever seen.

It wasn't even about a win or loss. It just felt like my TV cut out with 20 seconds left and it'll never turn on again.
 
Captaincoop

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Lewis is finished after that.

But give me a break with the coverage here. Pittsburgh was just as awful as Cincy, maybe worse.

Two times their coaches got physically involved in the game. And they had an equally disgusting cheap shot earlier to what Burfict did.
 
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That was a crap penalty. At that point anyone could have been flagged. And throwing a flag basically decides the game. Now Jones is an idiot for putting himself in that position, but that was a shit call.
 
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Love the outrage by all the old white guys. Nantz, Simms, Boomer, fucking blow me. Nantz was literally trying to call out 55 for something during every altercation. They wanted this narrative.
 
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This was the disco demolition night of the NFL. Just an embarrassing absence of discipline and control, and a reminder to fans out there of the violent reality of a sport without clear rules
 
j44thor

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DEN essentially gets two byes now. A banged up Ben and most likely no Brown is going to be a cake walk for DEN.
 
Jed Zeppelin

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Love the outrage by all the old white guys. Nantz, Simms, Boomer, fucking blow me. Nantz was literally trying to call out 55 for something during every altercation. They wanted this narrative.
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Yeah, pretty clear on that front when he went to fucking Carey asking if the cleanest sack ever on Ben was dirty.
 
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I thought they said Jones got flagged for contacting an official. I haven't seen a good replay but if he did contact a ref while he was shoving porter then I don't hate the flag as much. I understand zero tolerance for that.
 
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Everyone killing Cincinnati and ignoring two Pittsburgh coaches acting out of line and an uncalled roughing penalty
 
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It's unbelievable on both sides.

For the Bengels, this is the latest in a long line of massive chokes. This is the worst of all. They had the game won. They picked off the ball deep in Pittsburgh territory. The player luckily was down after idiotically running into the wrong endzone (which would have cost his team around 60 yards). Then they fumble it away on the very next play. They were still likely to stop the Steelers, just don't give up a long pass or commit a personal foul penalty, which they do. Then they compound it even worse. 30 yards in penalties on one play. The players involved should be cut. And Lewis should be fired. But given how dumb this franchise is, that is not happening.

On the other end, as a viewer of this game, knowing that the referees handed the game to Pittsburgh like that at the end essentially means several hours of the game beforehand, all the playing between the players was a waste, because the referees decided the game. Although Cincinnati is more at fault because they should have been smart enough to not put themselves in that position.
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Wouldn't it have been a safety for carrying the ball out of the back of your own endzone, giving Pittsburgh 2 points and the lead? I would have loved to see that.
 
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I do not understand the people saying the refs intentionally made the Steelers win. We didn't get to see whatever happened with Jones, and there's no universe where the hit on Brown wasn't a major penalty. Even without the Jones penalty they are in position to win. Bengals players shouldn't have been all around the guy they just tried to decapitate.

I have no love for the Steelers, in this game or any other, but anyone feeling sorry for the Bengals is a moron.
 
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The Bengals completely losing their shit is unfortunately going to make folks Shazier's vicious dropping his helmet to intentionally concuss Bernard.
 
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The Jones penalty really is taking the focus off the story -- even without it, the Burfict penalty made it less than a 50 yarder. Yes, a much harder kick, but still inside the target area and Boswell is 9 for 12 on 40-50 yarders, and the Steelers still had time for more yards.

The game was lost on the Burfict penalty. And it was a legitimate call. He has no self-control. And he lost his team a game. Yes, Hill's fumble was bad, but Burfict put himself above his team and its fans, and he shouldn't ever play another snap in that City, if the league.
 
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Quiddity said:
The player luckily was down after idiotically running into the wrong endzone (which would have cost his team around 60 yards)..
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Huh? He was clearly down. He was doing some stupid celebration, not running into wrong end zone.
 
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My final thoughts on a pretty fucked up game.

1. With the wholly inept, inconsistent, incompetent, and unpredictable officiating, the NFL got what it deserved tonight.

2. Marvin Lewis should be out of a job by the morning. Inability of his players to keep their composure, and some suspect play calling cost them this game 100%

3. Jim Nantz and Phil Simms were an absolute fucking disgrace to their profession in how they called this game. What an embarassment.
 
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DennyDoyle'sBoil said:
The Jones penalty really is taking the focus off the story -- even without it, the Burfict penalty made it less than a 50 yarder. Yes, a much harder kick, but still inside the target area and Boswell is 9 for 12 on 40-50 yarders, and the Steelers still had time for more yards.

The game was lost on the Burfict penalty. And it was a legitimate call. He has no self-control. And he lost his team a game. Yes, Hill's fumble was bad, but Burfict put himself above his team and its fans, and he shouldn't ever play another snap in that City, if the league.
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No way he loses his job over this. It's what the league is.
 
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I do not understand the people saying the refs intentionally made the Steelers win. We didn't get to see whatever happened with Jones, and there's no universe where the hit on Brown wasn't a major penalty. Even without the Jones penalty they are in position to win. Bengals players shouldn't have been all around the guy they just tried to decapitate.

I have no love for the Steelers, in this game or any other, but anyone feeling sorry for the Bengals is a moron.
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They showed the Jones penalty a few times. He was late to the altercation after Porter started getting into it, barely touched a guy and the flag flew. Terrible, terrible call. Big difference between a 50yd fg in those conditions and a 35yd FG. PIT almost certainly would have had to run another play to try and gain additional yardage if they don't get the second penalty.
 
Kenny F'ing Powers

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Phil Plantier said:
This was the disco demolition night of the NFL. Just an embarrassing absence of discipline and control, and a reminder to fans out there of the violent reality of a sport without clear rules
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The NFL will go out of their way to call ticky tack fouls, slow the game speed down, and be on ultra high alert - quadrupling the chance for bogus flags - all next week.

That won't be infuriating.
 
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DennyDoyle'sBoil said:
The Jones penalty really is taking the focus off the story -- even without it, the Burfict penalty made it less than a 50 yarder. Yes, a much harder kick, but still inside the target area and Boswell is 9 for 12 on 40-50 yarders, and the Steelers still had time for more yards.
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Let's just say it was a team effort and call it a day. Hill fumbling there without even forcing Pitt to call a single timeout is one of the worst plays I've ever seen considering the situation.
 
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Deion Sanders was on the NFL Network defending the Burfict hit.

I don't think the refs really handed this game to Pittsburgh. Cincy is the one who fumbled, Cincy is the one who gave up a fourth down to a gimpy QB. Burfict shouldn't have been just penalized, but ejected as well for his hit on Brown. The refs did lose control at the end, and Porter is a clown that should be fired, but all of the Bengals defense needed to do was show an ounce of composure but they didn't. You touch a referee because you can't control yourself, you deserve to get penalized.
 
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Neither team deserves any sympathy. Shazier tilted the game from very chippy to ugly. He is an asshole.

Big winner tonight, as usual, the Denver fucking Broncos. I think Ben's right shoulder is probably fucked. When he dodged Tracy's question, that may have been the death warrant for next week.
 
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Huh? He was clearly down. He was doing some stupid celebration, not running into wrong end zone.
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Of course he was down. That doesn't change what the player did. My point was just how insanely stupid the Bengels are. The player makes a huge interception that should win his team the game, and instead he runs it for a TD, to the wrong endzone. While it didn't count, because he was down, the player was still insanely stupid to run to the wrong endzone. Even dumber than that Marlon McCree play in the Pats - SD game back in 2006.
 
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