Teams would be lining up at the door to sign Burfict if the Bengals released him.
The refs seemed to be giving the Bengals the choice of two narratives Saturday night:
a) Rise above the typical Steeler dirtiness and limp into New England minus Bernard of course.
or
b) Lose your cool and dish it back in spades.
After Hill fumbled the ball, Burfict and Jones clearly chose "b." Which is fine with me I guess. At that point, they either play soft while Ben dinks and dunks down to kick the winning FG, or they headhunt and send a very direct message to the Steelers and to the refs, and the NFL for that matter:
Bring that typical Steeler dirty play, and refs feel free to call a one-sided game, that's fine. But there will be consequences. There is no more paper tiger. Lead with the helmet, knock our player out, and then no call? Fine, but payback is a mother though... have fun limping into Denver.
Last edited by Bob Sheed; 01-11-2016 at 10:57 AM.
"Lemonade requires a significant amount of sugar. Otherwise, you've just made lemon juice."
How do we know he's not Mel Torme?
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alwaysawarrior (01-11-2016)
If you don't call it both ways, what are we arguing about?
Again- you want the storyline. The gritty, tough tackling Steelers win!
Everyone else shut up and stop making excuses about the refs calling it one way but not another way.
They pulled someone's hair, dude.
Pulled their hair-
Their coach steps on the field of play. In years past and Sunday.
That's the sign of an organization that will do anything to win. <<<<<<Narrative
Bengals? Shut up and take your medicine, the NFL wants to make sure you are Susan Lucci.
757690 (01-11-2016)
I agree. Burfict never should have laid him out. If you watch the replay, the WR Brown gets "alligator arms" and crouches down a bit, because he knows 55 is coming. Taz should have known this and played the ball instead of the man. But that's some real hindsight there. We are analyzing a split second decision (albeit a poor one) in a dirty game that the refs let get out of control by not flagging for the Bernard KO.
Burfict is 25. He could be our James Harrison for the next 5-7 years. And I hope he is. He's the first Bengals LB since as long as I can remember that gives the Steelers WRs alligator arms. I love it. The only thing better would be if it was Hines Ward laying on that turf seeing stars instead of Brown. Ask Kevin Huber or Keith Rivers or most recently Gio Bernard what they think about "honest hard nosed Steeler football."
Its the same old garbage NFL narrative in regard to the Steelers that either needs to be changed, or there will be a lot more like last Saturday.
Last edited by Bob Sheed; 01-11-2016 at 11:11 AM.
"Lemonade requires a significant amount of sugar. Otherwise, you've just made lemon juice."
If they qualified the remarks to say that leading with the crown of the helmet against an opponent's torso is rarely called, I could see the argument. But leading with the crown of the helmet making contact into another player's helmet? In this day and age? I'm sorry but that's total baloney. That has been called repeatedly for the past 5-7 years without hesitation. You simply do not see, in this day and age of concussions, officials not calling helmet to helmet contact like that.
Which is why the no-call and the CBS no-care was all the more perplexing.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
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http://deadspin.com/vontaze-burfict-...ium=socialflow
I am not posting this for the article, but for the video of Burfict using his knee to ram the shoulder of Ben on the ground. I thought the narrative was that it was just a tackle? Roethlesberger is clearly on the ground and tackled and THEN Burfict knees him in the shoulder? Wow.
I agree. I won't defend Burfict's hit. But you know what? He got flagged, he'll get fined, he'll get suspended, which are the penalties in place for his actions. But I'm not going to make anything more out of it, despite the calls for his head from everyone outside of Cincinnati (and some in). He plays an extremely violent game in an extremely violent manner. He keeps that violence on the field. He's one of the more knowledgeable and studious players we have on defense. And when he steps out of line and goes too far, the league will deal with it - just like anyone else.
How do we know he's not Mel Torme?
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