The NFL Thread 2015: Denver Broncos win Super Bowl 50

[MTZehvor]

RolStoppable said:

MTZehvor said:

Both the Broncos and the Patriots lost at least as much, if not more, than the Bengals did this year. Injuries can only excuse so much, especially when you've turned the ball over as much as Cincy has this game.

What I meant is that a team losing its starting QB should render any notion of "the most complete team" void. The Bengals team that is losing tonight is not the same that was described as the most complete team.

I'd argue it does. If your claim is to be the most complete team (i.e. the team that does well at every aspect of the game), then you should be able to survive losing any player, even one as significant as your quarterback. The fact that the Broncos and Patriots survived worse injuries than that and still succeeded suggests that the Bengals were not the most complete team.

Also, AJ McCarron should apologize to Giovanni Bernard for throwing that pass. That was just asking for him to get destroyed.