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Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger
For the folks who want to talk about "choke"..against Dallas we put up THREE points in the second half. Against Green bay we put up ZERO points in the second half. In his first year starting we put up THREE points in the second half against San Fran. The year we won the superbowl in the second half against the Colts we put up THREE POINTS!!. So what happened against the Bengals is actually nothing new..it's happened several times before but this was just on a bigger stage.
In only one of those games (San Fran) did Pat have a top class back (Hunt) who he could hand the ball off to when the passing game was failing.
This is why I'm not blaming Pat at all. He threw ELEVEN touchdowns this post season (which is the joint best record in nfl history btw) and had rushed for another. Brady won a superbowl against the Rams putting up 13 points of which he threw zero TD's..why? Because he had a great defense and a running game that controlled the game and this is what the club owe Pat now moving forward..I'm tired of going into big games worrying about the defense and witnessing team after team laugh at our run game AND DROP EIGHT FECKING PLAYERS deep...enough is enough.
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You can absolutely blame Pat. I don't care if he threw 11 or 2 TD's in the playoffs. I don't care if it's happened before in the playoffs or in this game. All that matters is when the game was on the line and first and goal, the correct call was made. The WR's were open. he KNEW every route being run. He KNEW the spot to throw to. He stared them down. He didn't even TRY to throw the football.
We can debate why till the cows come home, but the bottom line is, he's a big reason we didn't win that game at the end of regulation. That's not even debatable.
Why would Cincy keep dropping so many back in coverage when they were getting gashed in the ground game?