a small reminder to the guys on the board

WE ARE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME!!!

I get we as fans we criticize the teams we love, but damn.

I see posts about how we don't play to win and that our quarterback chokes.

the defense isn't good enough. we don't tackle well. we cant beat the patriots.

I just wanted to remind everyone that we are one of 4 remaining teams and I don't fear the other 3 at all.

yes, ben statistically hasn't had the year the other guys have had. maybe he isn't as good as brady or Rodgers. personally I take him but hey, that's me.

we play the patriots. we played them once without ben. I like our chances with him wherever they play.

I just wanted to kind of start a thread where some can come and say things they liked about this season instead of all the shortcomings that apparently this team has.

for me, the best thing about this year has been the defense. I love the play of the rookies and the speed in which the entire defense has played with.

 

If they beat the Pats in NE, Ben makes his 4th Bowl and Tomlin his 3rd, the script will be officially flipped. Winning said Bowl would be huge!!

That's one critical "if"

 

Yep. My hope, expectation was at the beginning of the year if (and that was a BIG if) the three B`s were healthy at playoff time, we would get to at least the AFC Championship game. Here we are.

But now I`m getting greedy. There is no great team, no team of destiny this year. We have the best offense when we play our best. If we click for 4 quarters, we could put up HUGE numbers.

We can win it all. We just need two games where the offense brings it`s "A" game and we will be Super Bowl Champions again.

 

Like I said before the season started we will win the SB this year. Book it.
It will be nice beating the Pats but that doesn't come close to wining #7.

 

It would be nice to have a two game cushion over the next closest teams. (Cowboys and Niners)

 

QUOTE="JackAttack 5958, post: 457991, member: 100"]It would be nice to have a two game cushion over the next closest teams. (Cowboys and Niners)[/QUOTE

Your right, sometimes I don't look too far down the road because my road is pretty short, but for everyone else the more distance between us and the pack the better.

 

This guy gots our back, I ain't worried one bit.


Sprinkling crying jordans one game at a time

 

I love that we're finally back to having a "young" defense. I love that we've been healthy for the most part and that all three Bs are finally playing in the playoffs together.
BUT- we're still not done! 7 HERE WE COME!

 

I was up late last night and generally suffer from quite a bit of insomnia but last night was at least special in the sense that I kept thinking "We're going to the AFC Championship Game. WE are going to the AFC Championship Game. WE. ARE. GOING. TO. THE. AFC CHAMPIONSHIP. GAME!" It's astounding really just when you look at the success of this franchise in the modern era. I mean we don't "build" like everyone else. We don't get "sexy" free agents. We build from within and when we need certain roles to be filled we go out there and find the guys that generally plug right in and play. Bell? Drafted. AB? Drafted. In the SIXTH. ROUND. Ben? Drafted. Boz? Picked up at a bad time for the position when other teams had let him go and comes in and is now a record holding kicker. Our o-line? Balling. With almost all of it being homegrown talent and honestly a case can be made that AV is homegrown because he was just a castoff as well. Just think about what this franchise has been able to accomplish in an era of free agency thinking and it will almost boggle your mind. So maybe I shouldn't have really been unable to even hardly grasp the fact that we were in the AFC Championship game?

 

The time is now to get the monkey off the back. If not, we have to watch and hope they lose in the Super Bowl. I feel that KC has a better defense then the cheatriots. And old Tommy started melting down cause he gots a few boo boos getting hit and hit some more. Butler needs to bring the heat and hit and hit him some more. Belicheat will try hard to shutdown the run game, so Ben needs to be on point. I feel good about this game. I feel the cheatriots are ripe for the taking.
The time is now...

 

Thing is with patriots is they have patience. They wait for opponents to get antsy and boom they strike. It's going to be a huge chess battle and players need to execute

 

The Steelers are expected to franchise Bell. A holdout wouldn't surprise me.

 

For me, watching our defense progress throughout the season has been pure joy.

Watching a beast like Le'Veon Bell plow through defenders has been extremely exciting.

Cris Boswell getting a game ball from Tomlin made me giggle because I was so very happy for him.

Watching Deebo play this season is something I am holding onto and cherishing as I know there aren't many more seasons in his future.

Ben and Antonio... BOOM!

Seeing some of the younguns coming into their own makes me so proud of them and our team.

Okay, I'm getting all sappy now, so I'm done.

 

i too thought we were a year away and mentioned it early in the preseason for the same reasons ray. if the health stays i see no reason we can't be even better next year with bryant back. health makes a huge difference. right now we ride it for all it's worth.

 

I want to use this thread to give Josh Scobee a shout out.

If he wasn't so terrible, we never would have picked up Boswell. And for that, we should be eternally grateful.

 

Franchise him then work on a long term deal is what was reported.
It's smart. Gives the team plenty of time to work out a long term deal.

 

I just want to see us win the super bowl for Harrison sake. The team should use him for motivation, similar to when the Bus retired. Would be great and right for Harrison to get his due and then get on with his life's work. If it isn't this year, then he should come back next year and try again.

Just want to see Big Ben hug Debo and speak in his ear after another super bowl win.

 

Big Ben is the most polarizing player we have ( not like SI says ) because he is so dang inconsistent these days. When he's on..... There's no one better in the NFL but ... Too often he looks like Landry or worse.

Bell is why we are where we are !!!

Our OL is the base for our success!!!

Our defense???? Is playing surprising well and I'm loving what Sean Davis is doing!! Our unsung hero. Shazier is an All-Pro LB in my opinion!!! How about Hargrave???

We have a legit shot at winning #7 but honestly I think we're a year away from World Domination!!!!!!

Cajun

 

The last 2 years were so disappointing because I feel, if healthy we could have made a deep playoff run and possibly a Super Bowl appearance. In this league, all the right pieces have to come together to make a run at the Superbowl and we are finally there. It's going to take everything the team has to beat NE but I'm confident we can do it. This is going to be a great game to watch. 2 QB's who have been to 13 combined AFCC since 2003! Not many years left for Brady and Ben and we should enjoy watching both teams play against each other. Ben and Brady played the AFCC game in Jan 2005 in Ben's rookie season and here they are 12 years later in 2017 playing again. Good stuff!