Our Success since Ben's inception... we hate the pats but relax

Yes we all hate the pats with a passion, and we are all frustrated. Let's just take a step back and relax, the success we have had with him, and other teams success since 2004. In order listed.

Patriots no losing seasons, 5 berths, 3 titles (buttholes)

Steelers no losing seasons, 3 berths 2 titles (only other team with no losing record since 2004, tomlin sux)

giants 4 losing seasons 2 berths 2 titles

seahawks 4 losing seasons 3 berths, 1 title

Colts 1 losing season 2 berths, 1 title

Broncos 2 losing seasons, 2 berths, 1 title

packers 2 losing seasons 1 berth 1 title

Raisins 3 losing seasons 1 berth 1 title

saints 6 losing seasons 1 berth 1 title

eagles 4 losing seasons 1 berth \ falcons 4 losing seasons 1 berth

bears 6 losing seasons, 1 berth \ cardinals 6 losing seasons 1 berth

panthers 7 losing seasons 1 berth

49ers 8 losing seasons 1 berth

cowboys 3 losing seasons \ Chargers 3 losing seasons

Bagels 4 losing seasons

vikings 5 losing seasons \ Jets 5 losing seasons \ Texans 5 losing seasons

Chiefs 6 losing seasons

Titans 7 losing seasons \ redskins 7 losing seasons

buccaneers 8 losing seasons \ Dolphins 8 losing seasons \ Jaguars 8 losing seasons

lions 10 losing seasons \ Raiders 10 losing seasons \ Bills 10 losing seasons

rams 11 losing seasons

Brownies 12 losing seasons lol

So yeah Pats single handedly cost us about 1-2 titles, but hey every team has their nemesis that stops them. At least we were successful those times Pats were taken out and capitalized on it.

Being the 2nd best team in the NFL during Ben's reign is something to be proud of, especially since the #1 team has a ridiculous HC and QB pairing plus some cheating on their belt lol. Like it or not I truly believe we are a dynasty only overshadowed because of the Pats. With that being said, let's make this season a great one. Let's make it memorable. One more for the beast JH92. I will be wearing his jersey all the way through.

 

FTFY.

 

Yep. Only if we hadve beat the packers. How different would we be sitting right now.

 

The toughest for me to swallow was the 15-1 season of Ben's rookie year where the Cheaters were exposed for the whole spygate crap that they pulled.

In Hines Wards own words......"It's like the knew exactly what we were running".

This is just how good that season was up until that game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season

 

Man honestly I think if Burfict hadn't pulled his stupid bullcrap we could have won it all when we lost to the Broncos a couple of years ago. I know they say "injuries are part of the game" and "no excuses" and blah, blah, blah but we all know that's kind of bullcrap. I mean if you don't need star players then why pay them so much if they aren't really special players but are just like everybody else. Losing Bell and AB and having to go in to a championship game without either of those guys would be stacking the deck against pretty much any team.

 

The league just suspended Burfect for 5 games for a dirty hit on the chiefs running back in their last weeks pre season game, the bungholes claim it was a clean hit, of course they would say that they are his enablers..........

 

I've started thinking that the initial ruling of 5 games is complete nonsense. We know that he will appeal it down. They should have set it for like 12 games or something that way he could still appeal but even with a reduction they could still set it pretty high. Although I'm not sure if there's CBA language that prevents such things.

 

Since it's the second offense for the same thing, it's unlikely this suspension will be reduced, his next offense could be a year or even a ban from the league....

 

One can hope...

 

A couple of more lists, that reinforce the original posters point about the Steelers sucess relative to the league since '04. And show the gap between NE and everybody else in that same time frame:



Total Regular season wins 2004 to 2016

NE. 162
Indy 138
Pit. 137
GB 128
Den 126
Sea 120
SD/Bal 118
Dal 116
ATL 115
NYG/ Phi 113
NOR. 112
Cin 110
Car 108

NE averages nearly 2 more wins per season over everyone else. The difference between #1 and #2, is the same as difference between #2 and #9.

Total playoff wins 2004 to 2016

NE 19
Sea/Pit 13
GB/Ind/Bal 10
NYG 8
Den 7
Nor 6

Pretty reasonable success, by and large.

Of course, it depends where you draw the line..

Draw it from 2007 to now

Pit is#3 in reg season wins with 103. , after NE with 126 and GB with 106, Indy is 4th w/ 100
Pit is#6 in playoff wins w/ 8, after NE (13), GB /Sea/Bal/NYG (10)

Draw it at 2011

Pit is still #5. in reg season wins w/ 60, after NE (75), Den(67), GB (66), Sea (63), Cincy is next with 58
Pit is tied with 5 teams for 8th in PO wins with 3.

 

Good stuff, NE is in a league of their own, we aren't far behind. Not sure if we will ever get over that hump, we are scared lol

 

imagine what Bill Belichick would do if he had all the Steeler talented players.

 

Teach them how to cheat?

 

I keep seeing people say this
if burfict didn't do what he did we lose that game

 

The toughest one for me is the super bowl loss to GB.... we did everything we could to lose that game (turnovers, and GB did everything they could to give us a chance (drops)... and then we had the ball, with 2 minutes left, when a TD would win the game... and we choked.

There are other losses in the Ben era that stick in my craw (Arians abortion vs Jacksonville, Lebeau's cover 0 vs Tebow), but being that close to a ring, with the Ball in Ben's hands.... ugh.

 

Ben lost his magic touch lol, he used it up in the 2009 gb game

 

If Landry doesn't come in they never get that pick and that also was all because of Burfict's bull of kneeing Ben in the shoulder.

 

Yeah the Steelers were pretty much in total control of that game until Ben went out, then the wheels fell off. Almost beat Denver next week too with a one armed Ben.

 

Yeah that was a heartbreaker for me. I think Emmanuel Sanders was gonna be a huge part of our game plan for that super bowl then he got a very late injury and we had no answers. That and stupid Legursky missing his block by a mile on Mendy's fumble...

 

watched that game with one of my best friends and my son in law
both huge packers fans
when we got the ball at the end I was so sure I would laughing at them all the way home

 

Beside the fact of the Pats being very good, they also have had the luxury of beating up the Jets, Bills, and Dolphins 6 games a year for the last decade. Those 6 wins have almost been pre season games for the pats... and assure everyone has to go through foxboro in the playoffs. The AFCN has been mostly Steelers, but the Ravens won a Super Bowl during that time, and the Bengals have also had a few years at the top. AFCN beat each other up by the time playoffs roll around.

HACK

 

The Pats have been very fortunate to have been in a weak division all these years.
Looks like it isn't changing anytime soon. They still have beat us when it counts and that sucks.