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You don't replace Ben.
I bring this up because some folks started discussing possible Tombert moves in the near future to bring in a QB to transition in the next year to two to life beyond Ben and there was talk of whether or not there was faith that Tomlin could find and or groom somebody to replace Ben.
I repeat. You don't replace Ben.
He's a Hall of Fame QB, one of the best to ever play the game. Pittsburgh will much more likely get a guy like Trent Dilfer, or Landry Jones, or Tom Savage. We fans are NOT going to see a smooth transition to a superb QB who can control the offense and move the ball up and down the field with joyful regularity.
It always surprises me how many of you fail to realize that Roethlisberger is among the top 10 in most categories ALL TIME. We're talking Johnny Unitas, Otto Graham, Terry Bradshaw, Dan Marino, John Elway, Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, and even Cheater Boy... Roethlisberger is better or as good than most of them in most of the major QB categories. Completion Percentage, Yards Per Attempt, Yards Per Completion, TD / Int Ratio, TDS, Ints. I can't really understand how people enjoying the overwhelming success of Ben Roethlisberger in the post-modern era of football can fail to recognize how ******* amazing he is. There is only 1 QB right now who is really better. And that's Aaron Rodgers. (I don't count Br*dy. You all know why. But of course, T*m's numbers certainly would have been impressive. It would have been interesting to see how he would have done without Ernie Adams in his ear throughout his career.)
So, you don't replace Ben Roethlisberger. You hunker down and hope that Bell is good enough to keep you competitive. You hope that Brown is good enough to do 3/4s of what he does with Roethlisberger with some other QB. You hope that Tomlin and Haley or whoever the offensive coordinator is at that point can come up with clever enough schemes to continue to keep the Steelers a force in the AFC North.
But replace Roethlisberger? That's just not going to happen.
I bring this up because some folks started discussing possible Tombert moves in the near future to bring in a QB to transition in the next year to two to life beyond Ben and there was talk of whether or not there was faith that Tomlin could find and or groom somebody to replace Ben.
I repeat. You don't replace Ben.
He's a Hall of Fame QB, one of the best to ever play the game. Pittsburgh will much more likely get a guy like Trent Dilfer, or Landry Jones, or Tom Savage. We fans are NOT going to see a smooth transition to a superb QB who can control the offense and move the ball up and down the field with joyful regularity.
It always surprises me how many of you fail to realize that Roethlisberger is among the top 10 in most categories ALL TIME. We're talking Johnny Unitas, Otto Graham, Terry Bradshaw, Dan Marino, John Elway, Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, and even Cheater Boy... Roethlisberger is better or as good than most of them in most of the major QB categories. Completion Percentage, Yards Per Attempt, Yards Per Completion, TD / Int Ratio, TDS, Ints. I can't really understand how people enjoying the overwhelming success of Ben Roethlisberger in the post-modern era of football can fail to recognize how ******* amazing he is. There is only 1 QB right now who is really better. And that's Aaron Rodgers. (I don't count Br*dy. You all know why. But of course, T*m's numbers certainly would have been impressive. It would have been interesting to see how he would have done without Ernie Adams in his ear throughout his career.)
So, you don't replace Ben Roethlisberger. You hunker down and hope that Bell is good enough to keep you competitive. You hope that Brown is good enough to do 3/4s of what he does with Roethlisberger with some other QB. You hope that Tomlin and Haley or whoever the offensive coordinator is at that point can come up with clever enough schemes to continue to keep the Steelers a force in the AFC North.
But replace Roethlisberger? That's just not going to happen.
