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Yeah, AB won a ring by catching 8 balls in 3 games, with 2 TDs. AB should be kissing Ben’s *** for making him who he WAS on the field.
Report of Ben’s last Season
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I'll believe it when Ben says he's retiring. Speculation has had him retiring for the last 10 years...Screw the brain dead idiots calling themselves journalists who get mesmerized with every twinkle in the sky that is supposedly "Breaking News".
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The same haters will be wishing #7 was still at the helm in a couple years.
I dont think I have seen Ben so emotionally washed after a regular season game. He looked like he was going to cry. This is not a knock on Ben at all just shows how much he had invested into this game.
That was yet another 4th quarter comeback from our first ballot HOFer and top 20 QB to ever play the game.
Yes, they will because anymore wins and we will get our usual middling pick in each round. Rudolph will be our guys unless they bring in a scrap FA for a year or two but with Ben and probably Tuitt not on the rost next year, we will have a $20 million cap hit right there due to those restructures that happened prior to this year. I really can't see Tuitt back on the team. The players are saying one thing but he basically took the year off and collected his paycheck. He had no injury bad enough to keep him out this long and no one gets 6+ months off for bereavement.
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Well maybe he plays next year with a low salary team discount, to give back. The Steelers have been nothing but top class with him and most players actually through the years
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Then why no thousand yard seasons since? Meanwhile DJ is 86 yards away from a thousand and 9th in the NFL.
So, yes. Are you retarded?
I think that's why they let him slide this year. But, shame on the Steelers if they didn't force him to get at least 3 days a week of psychiatric help. Next year, all bets are off as far as being nice.
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Part of this is similar to what happened to Seattle/Wilson, Giants/Manning, Chargers/Rivers, Ravens/Flacco, Saints/Brees, Packers/Rodgers...
These teams all made their biggest runs to or won Super Bowl before the QB got his "mega" contract. The window of opportunity was in the years where they could keep more talented players all around and stay under the cap. It's not hard to see a pattern from all of these future Hall of Fame QBs (okay not Flacco for Hall and obviously no Super Bowl for Rivers, but Chargers had some incredible teams from 2006-2010 that were some bad breaks away from at least reaching the Super Bowl).
Afterwards, they all seemed to have large glaring weaknesses or lacking in talent to pull it off again.
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Tuitt made a mistake by not playing this year in my opinion. This is not me as a fan talking, but its me as someone who was in very similar shoes when it came to not reengaging life after a tragic loss of someone in my life.
Looking back, the time I spent focusing more on the loss vs. coming to terms and moving on was a mistake. It does not do to dwell on sadness and forget to live.
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You're a moron. How many times did Ben throw on 3rd and 1 to massive success? You got your panties in a twist because he missed on Chase Claypool yesterday but a clown like you can't remember what happened last Wednesday.
Because the Super Bowl is won by "serviceable" QBs so often. I know the date *******. Go buy spellcheck you illiterate ****.
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Uh... Are you saying they ought to go find a H.O.F. QB that ranks in the top 10 across virtually every statistical category for QBs all time, sitting in the top 5 for several of them? A guy who has made Terry Bradshaw look like one of hundreds of Browns QBs over the last couple decades? A guy who could be so amazing he could be in third place all time for 4th quarter comeback wins? A guy who can post a perfect passer rating in the 4th quarter of a slugfest with the Ravens and come from behind and win it? A guy like that?
Where could we find a guy like that...
Perhaps but I understand how loss can impact. Hard to see the sunlight when darkness blankets you..... In that moment it is hard to see anything else. Sure life must go on. But that doesn't make it any easier fighting through whatever loss gets thrown in your direction. I feel for him. It sucks.
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Well.. Ya. Cause Tomlin has demonstrated CLEARLY that he's really ******* good at that.
IMO, this was released by DramaBen so he can kick around in the off-season and then come back as he feels he has one more season left. Then get a year-long tour.
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I don't think anybody minds a little constructive criticism from time to time. I've made some critical comments about Ben's play myself. (Last night, if Ben throws under on that long pass to Washington when he sees the DB turn and run full deep cover that's likely a reception around the 5 or so. That was a bad read and play by Ben.) But a couple of you guys have full on vendettas against Roethlisberger. You aren't constructive. You aren't objective. There are guys that literally think Ben is worse than Mason Rudolph or some guy the ******* REDSKINS dumped. Jesus.
He's one of the 10 best QBs to EVER play the game. Is he perfect? No. Is there ANYBODY we could POSSIBLY field who could hold Roethlisberger's jock? No. Not even close.
Somebody in an earlier post said...
I have a great deal of respect for Bradshaw, but the comparison between he and Ben isn't close. The only thing Terry has is those 4 rings. And he was a huge part of those victories. I think Bradshaw may be one of the best "Big Game" QBs ever. But Bradshaw had one of the best defenses ever to play the game mostly together for the duration of his run. He had H.O.F. running backs and receivers together for the duration of his SB run. He had a H.O.F. coach who is in the H.O.F. for something more than "never having a losing season."
Ben has also had some stellar talent around him. But he's never had a coach who could gameplan his way out of a wet paper bag. If (as you suggest) teams can win now with sup-par or average QB talent, why the **** can't Tomlin win a ******* playoff game with one of the best QBS to ever play the ******* game?
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Right? And make the FO draft Mason Rudolph's younger brother, Jar.
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Ya, but AB has a RING. He has a RIIIIIING!
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It's called HEART, something more members of the team need & exhibit ore often. BEN is more invested into this team than 80% give him credit.
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Some think it's as easy as going to the store and picking a new QB right off the shelf and be successful. Longevity in a short life gae is even ore rare and to top it all off must be able to play in different mini eras, something some QBs can't do. to replace a QB is hard enough but to replace a HOF QB ,....... we will find out how tough it is.
I hope I' wrong but commen sense says it's harder than it looks or everybody would have HOF QBs. Mayfield / Jackson / cinncinatti qb are all more likely NOT then are HOF QBs.
Coach Tomlin doesn't even sniff his Non-losing season record with any of those three QBs.
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Some think it's as easy as going to the store and picking a new QB right off the shelf and be successful. Longevity in a short life gae is even ore rare and to top it all off must be able to play in different mini eras, something some QBs can't do. to replace a QB is hard enough but to replace a HOF QB ,....... we will find out how tough it is.
I hope I' wrong but commen sense says it's harder than it looks or everybody would have HOF QBs. Mayfield / Jackson / cinncinatti qb are all more likely NOT then are HOF QBs.
Coach Tomlin doesn't even sniff his Non-losing season record with any of those three QBs.
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Look, I feel for Tuitt as well. I said this months ago. But, you need to move on. No one gets more than a couple weeks off for bereavement. If you are that emotionally damaged, you must seek psychiatric help and the Steelers should have forced him to do it for his own good after about 2 months. Offer it to him at first and then force him if he won't do it on his own. I was devastated when my dad died. My sister took it even harder. Everyone grieves differently but we all move on the best we can. It's been almost 3 years since my dad died and I still break down and ball my eyes out - especially during football season. We used to text and call back and forth all during the games. Hell, I'll admit it, I still send him texts during the game. But life MUST go on. Tuitt should have move on in some way so he could function at work and in society again. He was rehabbing. He was supposedly ready to start practicing again. Then, nothing. This is one him and on the Steelers if they didn't help force him into getting help.
Maybe he is getting help. That wouldn't necessarily be reported.
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