Roethlisberger officially retires (video)
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THank you BEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
next stop. HALL OF FAME!!!!!!!!!!
next stop. HALL OF FAME!!!!!!!!!!
He's taken me to the highest of highs and some very low lows.
I'll always appreciate his effort.
I'll always appreciate his effort.
Even after 18 years of taking poundings, he was better last season than Neil O'Donnell was in his prime.
Wow...enjoy retirement. Well earned. Glad you were a Steeler.
I'm sure his game has declined but it was hard to tell with the terrible o-line and atrocious wide receiver play the last two years.
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+1. I also think the Steelers WR's are overrated.
The best hands on the team belong to TE 88.
they said that the steelers had the lowest time allowed before the defense got to ben. THat may have something to do with a less than awesome ben kind of year.
They need to address the offensive line in the draft first then go after someone the year after if they need to.
Good and bad thing about the team is they always shoot for the Superbowl.
They need to invest in beef on both sides of the ball, in my sorry opinion. One or two more years of really boring football and then maybe they can be good again.
Early in my football watching days it bummed me out when the Steelers let someone leave a year before they went bad. Now they keep these expensive stars for way too long and someone crucial is always injured. Get some good depth instead of these expensive sports car-like players.
Just read somewhere that Ben's QB rating throwing to Freiermuth was much higher than the rest of his targets for 2021.
Steelers have so many "needs" that I'm expecting a good many dark years before Tomlin has the talent to make another SB run.
Only 8! Qbs all time with 2 Super Bowls. Played in 3. 64k yards. He is in first ballot.
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My late father and I were at the 2000 Big 33 football classic. The Ohio team had a big, lanky 6-5, 195 pound quarterback from Findlay High School named Ben Roethlisberger. He was going to Miami(OH). I think his career there was one of the reasons John Cooper was fired at OSU.
Man they got some long leashes up there in the 'burgh these days.
Haven’t they always? To me, that’s more of a good thing than a bad thing.
Ha, I could have made the same joke about the pope if that had been the case that day. It just so happened it was a Supreme Court Justice who was plastered all over the national news. Nothing comes between Pittsburghers and their fanaticism for the Steelers. I thought I was a big fan until I moved there.
It's a good thing overall but I think it's hurt the team in some respects in the last decade.
To paraphrase that Rooney quote on Canada ' yeah he stunk, hopefully he'll get better in a few months.'
Maybe the guy was held back by Ben's limitations. I'm for giving him another year but the quote struck me as funny.
When asked in last weeks presser about the offensive play calling, he replied "when you have red paint, you paint the barn red".
I wasn't sure who you were quoting and it sounded like some sort of classic line, so I looked it up and that's definitely an instant classic Tomlinism right there. Sometimes I think they should keep him just for his way with words.
Pretty harsh but I guess he has to try to address the offense's putrid performance somehow without talking full responsibility for it. I'm not joking when I tell you that I fell asleep during at least 4 Steelers games this year from sheer boredom. I was bummed I missed second half of the Titans game for instance.
One poster in that thread had some interesting stats, if they're true:
"brhunt7
Last year Ben threw 33 tds and 10 picks in 15 games and was 12-3. His recievers lead the league in drops and fumbles. And they were just the 4th team ever to go to the playoffs with the 32nd ranked run game in ypc and ypg. Ben does that and people say it's trash but mahomes throws 37 and 13 in 17 games this year and he's an MVP candidate. And this year the run game was 29th in both, the recievers we're 3rd in drops and 2nd in fumbles. and the defense was 32 against the run and 20 in points."
I felt like the receivers got worse as the season went on in regards to the drops. Wow, the D was last in the league against the run. That is even worse than anything you could say about the offense. Whatever identity the Steelers had is gone.
Ben said losing Shuster was pretty devastating to the receiving corps because of how physical he is, and how having two physical targets in him and Freirermuth would have been impossible for defenses to cover both.
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