stillers4me
09-03-2014, 05:37 PM
For an NFL quarterback like Ben Roethlisberger, the idiom ‘crunching the numbers’ can often be equated with a health score, particularly when you’ve been hit, sacked and pounded on for more than a decade. With Roethlisberger about to make his 143rd NFL start in his 11th NFL season, we take stock of the toll a decade at the position has taken.
Quarterbacks are a nostalgic bunch. They tend to remember the most vicious hits they’ve absorbed in the pocket the way teenagers remember their first kiss. With a lot less fondness, of course.
Ben Roethlisberger, who has been sacked more times than any active quarterback in the NFL, doesn’t even hesitate to name the player who slammed the hardest into his 6-foot-5, 250-pound frame.............
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2014/09/03/NFL-PReview-Tales-from-the-blind-side/stories/201409030125#ixzz3CIKzE649
Quarterbacks are a nostalgic bunch. They tend to remember the most vicious hits they’ve absorbed in the pocket the way teenagers remember their first kiss. With a lot less fondness, of course.
Ben Roethlisberger, who has been sacked more times than any active quarterback in the NFL, doesn’t even hesitate to name the player who slammed the hardest into his 6-foot-5, 250-pound frame.............
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2014/09/03/NFL-PReview-Tales-from-the-blind-side/stories/201409030125#ixzz3CIKzE649