What is it about Coach Lewis?

Play not to lose...that's his MO...lot's of talent...they have it all...Go up 14-3 at half and just throw the playbook out the window. It's not Dalton at all...it's Marvin and by all accounts his players love him...This team is a juicy play against in the play offs....HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

I was thinking the same thing...they shut it down in the 2nd half, went conservative.

They did the same thing against the 9ers in the 2nd half last week, and it almost cost them.

Everybody knows this team has folded in game #1 of the playoffs under Marvin Lewis.

I'll be fading this team or no play the next 2 games.

Marvin Lewis is 0-6 in the playoffs.  I kid you not.

And they thought Marty Schottenheimer was bad...or Marv Levy with 5 Super Bowl losses (ok, that's worse lol)

Can  you imagine the Bengals with a home playoff game and AJ McCarron.....

Question is, was it Dalton or Marvin Lewis....

I somewhat agree with you, but they did throw it twice to AJ Green and almost resulted a TD. Give Denver's D, they stepped up 2nd Half, made plays and shut Cincy down.

bad under pressure, not an clutch coach

It's why Lewis is 1-for-100 in Primetime games and 0-for-700 in the Playoffs.

Or something close to that.

As I stated in the official game thread, and as many here on Covers already know, in clutch games or clutch situations in games, he gets outcoached 9 out of 10 times.  I never bet on him.

The Bungles have cost me a fortune and a half over the years. I had Denver -3 for my main bet but also had a big teaser with Cincy getting 10.5

Bungles are going no where in the playoffs.

I saw quite a few shots deep by Cincy in the second half. 

Plus AJ Green was a foot off on two throws when I remember right.

So McCarron had money on Denver and the refs had money on Cincy?

You were crying fix when McManus missed the field goal. The game would have been 20-17 Denver.

Now you are crying fix about a move on the Bengals side that led to the exact same result of 20-17.

Do you see that you sound weird?

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Do you have an accurate number for the average scoring in NBA games since the rule changes?

Do you have an accurate number for the average scoring in NFL games since the rule changes?

Why not proving your assumptions with facts like true numbers everyone can reproduce?

I get your point that the NFL wants to have more excitement because they make like $6bn in revenue from TV. But fixing games? To risk the integrity of the biggest sports in the world?

If they would fix games to make things more excited they wouldn't let all NFC playoff teams clinch their spots in week 16. They wouldn't have let the Steelers lose to Baltimore on Sunday. Wouldn't be a three-team fight between Jets, Steelers AND Chiefs be more exciting this week? Wouldn't it have been MUCH MORE exciting if the Broncos had lost on MNF to make their game vs. SD more interesting? Wouldnt be a Giants/Eagles clash be much more exciting if the Eagles had won last week?

You make a case for a fix in the Broncos game to push this game to overtime but a Bengals & Ravens win would have set up a MUCH better TV scenario this week.

You only see what you want to see.