Is it time to bench Ben Roethlisberger?

[Steeler Nation]

With the disappointing start to this season, the Pittsburgh Steelers offense has been the glaring issue for this start. We know the offensive line is a problem, but with them playing their best game so far this past weekend vs the Green Bay Packers, that was not the reason they lost. Was it the killer offsides call to end the 1st half? No… so what was it? It was the play at quarterback.

Ben Roethlisberger missed multiple receivers, the two big ones were for JuJu Smith-Schuster. Both misses were on very similar routes ran by JuJu, both going up the middle of the field which would have been easy pitch and catches. If those passes were completed, the Steelers probably win the game. Instead, it resulted in a field goal from Chris Boswell and a punt respectively. The Steelers still were in the game despite those misses and the play that drives the fan base crazy is the 4th and 5 in the 3rd quarter where it is a 3-man rush, and Ben doesn’t look anywhere else but to Najee Harris in the flat for a loss of a yard. The rookie Pat Freiermuth would be wide open on this play to move the sticks, but instead we see the same play as the week before against the Cincinnati Bengals, and get the same result.

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— Andy (@AndrewManley1) October 3, 2021

Do the Steelers bench Ben? I personally don’t see it happening anytime soon, maybe by Week 9 they might do it depending on where the Steelers are in the standings. It is a tough decision for head coach Mike Tomlin and the Steelers organization because do you want to send your future Hall of Fame quarterback out that way by benching him like the New York Giants did with Eli Manning? That surely got ugly for that franchise. Or do you want to see the Steelers ride it out with Ben? It really is hard to watch a guy that has done so much and played through so many injuries end his career like this. For a team that has such a great defense, it’s hard to throw this season away for the Steelers. They just don’t give up. Think about the season when they lost Ben, they went out and traded a 1st round pick for Minkah Fitzpatrick.The media thought the Steelers were insane. They said they traded a top 5 pick away (which they didn’t) and the Steelers would finish that year as the 7th seed, which would have in today’s day be good enough for a playoff spot.

So how do the Steelers handle this situation? Do they play it out a few more weeks because the bye week is coming shortly? Do they make a move and what move would you like to see? Is it someone already in the organization like Dwayne Haskins or Mason Rudolph? Or do you want them to make a trade for a guy like Jimmy Garoppolo who should be back in a few weeks after injury?



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[wig]

For a team that has such a great defense...

You lost me there bro. I think they need to give Roethlisberger the opportunity (one last chance, if you will) to use a great deal more "no-huddle" to see if the offense can be more effective that way. If not, then I think it would be a good idea to put Rudolph in until Ben has some degree of faith in the offensive line. It seems pretty clear that he's primarily intent on getting rid of the ball immediately before he can be sacked or forced to fumble.

Younger Ben NEVER throws that ball to Harris. Younger Ben would find a way to extend the play and he would at least give a guy a chance to make the play. That throw to Harris was a complete give-up from the start. He must have seen there was virtually no way outside of a glaring error on 2 or 3 tacklers parts for that play to get the yards. Ben from the start of last year, or years before would have given up on that and started looking elsewhere and he undoubtedly would have seen a wide-open Muth for the 1st.

It looks as though he's not going through progressions and just throwing the first read, regardless. I can't believe that's play design. Canada can't be THAT incompetent. So, it must be Ben unwilling to take the time to go through the reads. And that's just not Ben. There has to be a reason he's playing this way, and it's not just "he's old." He doesn't believe he has the extra second or two to make those reads and so he's just dumping the ball off and hoping for the best.

Not a recipe for success, sadly.

 

[Steelr4evr]

Until you get a running game this is pointless. If the goal is still to make the playoffs and win a superbowl. Do you think either back up can do that? If the answer is yes, then do it.



Yeah sure put the backup guys in so everyone will stfu. If that will magically give us a top notch OL that blows guys off the ball and they can run at will, go for it.

I'm waiting on this new offense. Have they put it in yet? Asking for a friend.