Tomlin coached his best game in years

I don't want to see any grown man cry.
I wonder how true the people reporting after the game Rodgers went , and found him , and talked encouraging words to him are???

 

If true, that's awesome! I've really come to respect AR this season.

 

Exactly my thoughts.

 

We take our foot off the gas all the time right?
THE STEELERS HAVE NEVER EVER LOST A GAME WITH A 25 POINT LEAD.
Again, yall worry about "what ifs" that have never happened.

 

Really? History and patterns are all we have. On other forums I have been making this case since THE NINETIES under Cowher and continue to be right.

The Steelers are ELITE at holding on to leads relative to the league in general yet since the Trib forums EVERY SEASON fans whine about victories that were unnecessarily "scary" for their fragile hearts.

Literally NEVER an actual LOSS, just narrower wins.

BUT IT WORKS. Teams that DONT milk the clock are the ones that get bit in the butt.

You can CHOOSE ti not be comfortable with a 25 point lead versus the Bills but I am NEVER worried and have never been wrong.

 

It is not about fear of running it up. It is about the FACT that chewing up clock an avoiding turnovers is SMARTER than being aggressive. Incompletions give an opponent more possessions and things like pick sixes are key to large comebacks.

As far as your "history proves nothing" based on changes, this is a coach philosophy. Tomlin and Cowher both turtle and it works.

 

Allen has never overcome a 25 point 4th quarter lead in his life.

Josh Allen just had the biggest 4th quarter comeback of his career versus the Ravens in. September.
He overcame a 15 point lead.

 

Dance with the girl you took to the prom

 

Totally agree, but I want you, and others to remember this what You said.

 

Hell OKLAHOMA last night is a prime example of trying to keep going for the throat, and it costing them. Before You knew it they had pick 6 going the other way totally changed the game.

 

I had a flashback to a redneck bar I frequented when I lived in Denver

It was Bombay Gin night and I won a T-shirt I just loved

On the front all it said was “Play to win”

 

And Atlanta had a 28-9 lead over NE in the beginning of the 4th quarter and pulled back to coast to the win

They lost the Superbowl because of it

If they had kept going for the throat they would have been superbowl champs

 

That's not true my friend. It was because they kept passing, and playing like it was the 1st quarter how they lost. If they actually had went into turtle mode(as some call it) they would have run the clock out, and NE would not have had the time.

 

Absolute truth here. Falcons built that first half lead on only 8 pass plays by Ryan. 2nd half? 20 pass plays including a strip sack that lead to a Patriot score and a sack that took them out of field goal range.

Far from losing due to the "turtle", they did the EXACT OPPOSITE of turtle.

 

Look at the breakdown

 

Really? Your words my friend.

My friend as great as Boswell is, even he could not score the way the goal post is being moved here.

Looks to me the root of THIS conversation is whether taking our foot off the gas was a risky move in THIS game and that had not the Dolphins been stupid it could have come back to bite us.

Your point that overcoming a 25 point lead is rare in ANY game Steelers or not is absolutely correct. It also lays waste to your own earlier quoted assertion.

Don't take my word. Take yout own.