Lady Steel
01-18-2015, 12:54 AM
One more season in the books, one more playoff loss and one more year gone in Ben Roethlisberger's career.
The clock keeps ticking on one of the NFL's best quarterbacks, and the Steelers made it no closer to another Super Bowl than they did when Tim Tebow ended their 2011 run at one-and-done.
It's not like he didn't do his part.
Roethlisberger's 11th season with the Steelers ranked as his best, both statistically and for his part in turning two 8-8 seasons into 11-5 and an AFC North title. But the opening-round playoff loss at home to Baltimore sends the Steelers into the 2015 season looking for their first Super Bowl win in seven years. And at 33 by the time next season begins, Roethlisberger needs three more Lombardi trophies to reach his goal of having more rings than any quarterback in club history.
At age 32, Roethlisberger showed he was at the top of his game, as he and Steelers president Art Rooney predicted he would before the season. He missed only three snaps to injury the past two seasons and ended this one holding virtually every season and career team passing record, as well as a few NFL firsts.
"I think Ben is in the prime of his career, hopefully," Rooney said last training camp. "Nowadays, you hear people talk about the top five [quarterbacks] and they don't always put Ben in that group. I think over the next few years, Ben is going to put himself into that group."
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2015/01/18/Steelers-wagon-still-hitched-to-Ben-Roethlisberger/stories/201501180183
The clock keeps ticking on one of the NFL's best quarterbacks, and the Steelers made it no closer to another Super Bowl than they did when Tim Tebow ended their 2011 run at one-and-done.
It's not like he didn't do his part.
Roethlisberger's 11th season with the Steelers ranked as his best, both statistically and for his part in turning two 8-8 seasons into 11-5 and an AFC North title. But the opening-round playoff loss at home to Baltimore sends the Steelers into the 2015 season looking for their first Super Bowl win in seven years. And at 33 by the time next season begins, Roethlisberger needs three more Lombardi trophies to reach his goal of having more rings than any quarterback in club history.
At age 32, Roethlisberger showed he was at the top of his game, as he and Steelers president Art Rooney predicted he would before the season. He missed only three snaps to injury the past two seasons and ended this one holding virtually every season and career team passing record, as well as a few NFL firsts.
"I think Ben is in the prime of his career, hopefully," Rooney said last training camp. "Nowadays, you hear people talk about the top five [quarterbacks] and they don't always put Ben in that group. I think over the next few years, Ben is going to put himself into that group."
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2015/01/18/Steelers-wagon-still-hitched-to-Ben-Roethlisberger/stories/201501180183