Steelers beat them in regular season, however, their chances are gonna depend on how healthy everyone is. Big Ben, AB, and Deangelo are all gonna be very questionable to play. If Big Ben is out, the Steelers have absolutely no shot. They won the game, but Burfict really took his toll. He's injured Big Ben, Bell and Brown this year all on very questionable hits.
Burfict makes Harrison seem like an angel. Harrison has never cost his team the game to blatantly attempt to injure another teams player. Burfict has been grabbing ankle, throwing punches and taking illegal cheap shots for the past two seasons and NFL has done very little in terms of punishment.
I'm glad they won, but I'm getting tired of seeing the same shit happen every game with the Bengals. Its not a fluke thing, Burfict has had cheap shots on Greg Olsen, Cam Newton, Big Ben (numerous times), AB, Leveon Bell, Gary Barnidge and Maxx Williams off the top of my head.. and There has definitely been more.. This is a trend:
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...d-be-suspended
http://www.steelersdepot.com/2016/01...ms-in-week-17/
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-...bell-went-down
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...hlisberger-hit
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...injuring-sack/
http://nesn.com/2015/09/adam-pacman-...scuffle-video/
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200...ek-3-incidents
http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/01/10/cin...ict-suspension
Its really getting old. Say what you want about guys like Harrison and Ryan Clark, but you can't tell me Harrison and Clark weren't at least respected. After a Steelers/Ravens game, yeah they hated each other, but Suggs, Harrison, Polamalu, Reed and etc had respect for each other, they weren't out there to injure each other intentionally. Harrison had a few questionable hits and he was punished severely, Burfict has been doing this shit for three years with nothing but fines (which I'm sure is teaching him a lesson! He only does it every week!).
the Steelers/Bengals have always had a rivalry, but it got really bad this season after Burficts antics. It started early in the season when Vontaze Burfict got called for a penalty for kicking Leveon Bell, and a few plays later sequentially injured Bell on a play that ended up resulting in Bell tearing his ACL, while Bell was on the ground in pain, Burfict celebrated over him and taunted the Steelers offensive line. After the game Steelers linebacker Vince Williams sent out death threats to Burfict over Twitter, which was just as dumb and as bad as Burfict. Next time they played, before the game started, Pacman Jones went on a rant on Instagram calling the Steelers "Shitsburgh" and wearing a "fuck pittsburgh" t-shirt, you know keeping it classy. Other Bengals such as Marquise Flowers also sent out threats directed at Deangelo Williams, AB, Big Ben and etc. Burfict got called for 3 personal foul penalties in the game, most notably for a late hit on Ben Roetlisberger and late in the game as Steelers were blowing the Bengals out, Burfict got into a fight with David Decastro and punched him numerous times, but somehow wasn't thrown out of the game, he received 70k in fines after the game but wasn't suspended. As part of retaliation in the game, Steelers had TE Matt Spaeth go after Burfict and had Mike Mitchell jack up Tyler Eifert over the middle, on a hit that concussed Eifert.
After the game, it turned into another twitter war, where Steelers lineman Marcus Gilbert said he prays he gets Bengals in playoffs and guaranteed a win, which of course fired up Burficts dumb ass anymore, and then we have all that happened yesterday.
I can honestly say as someone who played sports I would never want a guy like Burfict on Pacman on my team, if you keep taking dirty shots at other teams players, especially their star players, its gonna result in retaliation. Sucks for a guy like Tyler Eifert who goes over the middle a lot, and has a lot of guys who want to hit him, and hit him high due to the actions of his idiotic teammates. I've never seen a team literally go out of their way to injure people, even if it means losing the game, its truly pathetic.
Burfict is an ass and has not been suspended enough. That whole game was an embarrassment for both teams (nonsense from Steelers coaching staff, players being out of control). The Steelers have also had a few dirtbags in recent memory so don't wag your finger too hard.
Unfortunately, the NFL is probably enjoying the extra attention on this game. It's a very flawed sport right now.
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you're dead, you don't know you're dead.
It's only difficult for other people.
It works the same way for stupid."
Unrelated to any of this controversy, I would never sport long hair or dreadlocks if I played football. Having your hair yanked out of your head as you are moving at high speed with tremendous force must hurt like hell. Football players have throughout the years taken extraordinary efforts to make sure that there is nothing for their opponent to grasp. They tape their uniform sleeves to their pads etc, yet they run around with long hair hanging from their helmets.
Today's Bronco/Patriots game is not exactly a classic Brady/Peyton matchup, but it is a dramatic game going down to the final 2 minutes with the outcome still hanging in the balance.
Shaughnessy's column on this game will be a classic. Last week he ripped the Patriots for having (in his view) tanked the Miami game - if they had just won that game they would have played at home today.
I tend to not second-guess Belichick but......What the fuck BB?
We miss you Mike.
Tom Brady has lost 5 straight postseason games against the Manning brothers.