I may get flamed for this but I don't see brought up much. But IMO while it was nice getting to the AFC championship game twice, all we did was take out an opponent in the divisional round that have given problems to the teams that ended up beating us. The Colts lost to the Chargers to years in a row in the playoffs in 07 and 08 And the Steelers has had trouble with the Brady/Bellichik era Patriots. So we inadvertly made the Colts and Steelers life a little easier.
So you'd rather we have lost those games so that the team that eventually beat us would go on to lose instead of win?
After we lost to the Steelers, I had a crazy thought that I wish we would have lost to the Patriots so the Steelers would have taken it up the ass in foxborough. Thank god the Colts-Steelers-Patriots have all lost since 09.
Not so much an implication as almost saying that straight out. I am not sure I understand what you are trying to convey. You said that "all we did" was make life easier for the Colts/Steelers by playing us. The logical leaps is that if we had lost and the teams we beat moved on instead, they would have had a better chance at beating our eventual opponent than we did.
Haha, if anything, an argument can be made that we took so much out of them even in losing that those teams went on to lose the Super Bowl. Maybe the Saints and Packers should be thanking us.
Not sure what you're going for there. The object is to win, in both cases we ended up in the AFC Championship game in a place where we had won a month earlier.
Yes and the 49ers took out New Orleans who probably shells the Giants again. That's the NFL, some teams match up better than others.
^Just like how the Giants were a nightmare matchup for the Packers this year. I made good money off that game
In 2009 we suffered key injuries on both sides of the ball in the AFCCG. We lost Donald Strickland, who was our second best CB at that point in man to man coverage, and Shonn Greene who was the pound in Ground and Pound. If those two players don't get hurt we win that game. In 2010 we got run over by the Steelers before we knew what was happening. This is a legitimate concern because we got out-planned by the opponent and lost the game as a result.
i was thinking something similar, the chargers have owned the colts and peyton doesn't necessarily step his game up in the playoffs like his younger brother on top of that. the steelers matched up bad with the patriots and they killed pittsburgh in pittsburgh in 2010. hell i know the jets got killed in baltimore last season but if the ravens didn't choked away that playoff lead to pittsburgh i think the jets would've beat the ravens in the afc title game last year instead. with that said regarding the afc title trips. 2009 was fun to watch as they overachieved, 2010 was great to watch up until the pittsburgh game, it was great seeing them beat the patriots but to lose after that hurt badly to watch.
I disagree. The plan was fine, we needed to tackle on D and execute on O. Sanchez getting strip-sacked for a TD wasn't part of the plan, either.
the first drive in that steelers game summed it all up to me. if im not mistaken they got em to 3 and out and got hit with a dumb penalty on 3rd down, and got hit with another dumb penalty as well on the same drive. i hate, what if's, but if they never get that penalty on the first drive and sanchez doesn't have that fumble in the 2nd quarter it's a completely different game.
I agree 100%. I wish they'd just ran the ball instead of trying on 3rd and a mile with time running down though. It could have been the difference. :sad:
