***Baltimore at Pittsburgh*** (+4) O/U 44 The Big Ben-Lamar Bowl or as some think...the End of Big Ben (1 Viewer)

[HellToupee]

Boswell is on the take

 

[timschochet]

Steeler defense has just been terrific today. 

 

[HellToupee]

Steeler defense has just been terrific today. 

Thanks

 

[Steve Tasker]

Go for 2

 

[belljr]

Steelers d sucks

 

[Gachi]

Umm…???

 

[belljr]

Steelers d sucks

Whew it worked 

Just in time

 

[irish eyes]

O M G

 

[timschochet]

Wow 

 

[GroveDiesel]

Some fantastic endings today.

 

[sho nuff]

Dang. Wanted OT for more Najee.  He was killing them late.

 

[dickey moe]

Omg

 

[Craig_MiamiFL]

Great finish. 

 

[Leroy Hoard]

The play was there

 

[dickey moe]

Love the play call there, just didn't work out. 

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Horrible decision 

Tucker never misses. Take your chances in OT

 

[Army Eye]

Baltimore the better team, I don't know why they choose a 50/50 to win or lose. 

 

[JaxBill]

Baltimore the better team, I don't know why they choose a coin flip to win or lose. 

ummm...NFL OT is literally a coin flip situation 

 

[JaxBill]

Horrible decision 

Tucker never misses. Take your chances in OT

if you get the ball. 

 

[Wrigley]

Horrible decision 

Tucker never misses. Take your chances in OT

This 

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

if you get the ball. 

Hold them to a FG or better yet no score on their first possession, and put LJ and Tucker in position for either a TD or FG to win it. 
 

I guess that’s the chances I’m good with going with instead of a last ditch effort two Pointer for a win. Make Pittsburgh earn it even more. 

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

I like the call. Pass needed a little more touch. 
 

 

[JaxBill]

Steelers' last 3 regulation drives were TD/FG/TD.

Even if you win the coin flip what good does Tucker do?

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Steelers' last 3 regulation drives were TD/FG/TD.

Even if you win the coin flip what good does Tucker do?

If you don’t know then I can’t help ya. 

 

[JaxBill]

If you don’t know then I can’t help ya. 

if you can't answer I can't help ya

 

[timschochet]

Steelers' last 3 regulation drives were TD/FG/TD.

Even if you win the coin flip what good does Tucker do?

Despite the last 3 drives, Baltimore is the better team. They’ve been the better team all year long. 
When you are the better team, you don’t leave it all up to a single play if you can help it. You extend the game because in the long run your superiority should win out. 

 

[JaxBill]

Despite the last 3 drives, Baltimore is the better team. They’ve been the better team all year long. 
When you are the better team, you don’t leave it all up to a single play if you can help it. You extend the game because in the long run your superiority should win out. 

by that logic, the superior team that is so superior in all situations should not blink at a 2 pt conversion against a clearly inferior team that is so inferior. 

 

[JaxBill]

I like the call. Pass needed a little more touch. 
 

this

 

[rockaction]

I didn't like them going for it either, and I don't think probability is on their side. It seemed like a hopeful decision, especially if one considers historical success rates of two-point conversions. I'm open to contrary opinions or facts, but I don't think the current state of what we know about two-point conversions backs up that decision. That seemed like it was from the gut. 

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

I didn't like them going for it either, and I don't think probability is on their side. It seemed like a hopeful decision, especially if one considers historical success rates of two-point conversions. I'm open to contrary opinions or facts, but I don't think the current state of what we know about two-point conversions backs up that decision. That seemed like it was from the gut. 

Definitely a gutsy decision. Just the wrong one in this circumstance IMO. 

 

[JaxBill]

@sgellison: John Harbaugh on the decision to go for 2: "Tried to win the game right there. We were out of corners at that point in time [Marlon Humphrey injured - getting MRI]. It was an opportunity to try to win the game right there."

 

[BINGBING]

@sgellison: John Harbaugh on the decision to go for 2: "Tried to win the game right there. We were out of corners at that point in time [Marlon Humphrey injured - getting MRI]. It was an opportunity to try to win the game right there."

Came here to say this.  Humphrey has been feast or famine this year, but without him they are toast.  The Steelers went up and down the field on the scrub DB's.

 

[rockaction]

@sgellison: John Harbaugh on the decision to go for 2: "Tried to win the game right there. We were out of corners at that point in time [Marlon Humphrey injured - getting MRI]. It was an opportunity to try to win the game right there."

Fair enough. That's a personnel decision, then, and one can't really question it. But I just didn't want to hear it was an "analytics" decision without any math backing up that claim, because it didn't seem like a numbers-based decision at that point. 

Now I'll concede that it was probably the right move. 

 

[grateful zed]

@sgellison: John Harbaugh on the decision to go for 2: "Tried to win the game right there. We were out of corners at that point in time [Marlon Humphrey injured - getting MRI]. It was an opportunity to try to win the game right there."

i was wondering why they went for it.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

Why did Greg Roman draw up a "Tiger Slide" and then leave Watt UNBLOCKED free path to Jackson who was thinking he was gonna take off initially and then got caught and was about to be sacked so he launches a wild duck past Andrews that he never truly wanted to throw in the first place, awful design.