Ben Roethlisberger named AFC offensive player of week

[polamalubeast]

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[Count Steeler]

Sure is fun when you have some toys to play with. And enough time to play with them.

[fansince'76]

*Goodell sitting in his darkened office seething in anger*

[steelreserve]

Sure is fun when you have some toys to play with. And enough time to play with them.

The Munchak hiring is looking like a smarter move than ever. At the start of the season, it was "We need to draft a left tackle in the first round, we need to draft a right tackle, all of our linemen but Pouncey and DeCastro are god-awful." The competition for the tackle spots was a competition to see who would play the worst and lose the job because we'd be better off with literally anyone else. Now our problem is that Adams was playing well, but not well enough to unseat the starter. It's a complete reversal.

I don't know, maybe they just managed to string together a few good games, or got lucky, but if this is the difference a real OL coach makes, give that man a fat raise. He may have finally found the key to unlocking the offense from sleep mode, and saved us two or more high draft picks.

[Count Steeler]

*Goodell sitting in his darkened office seething in anger*

You sure that isn't from the Wax Musuem? Or his pose for the HOF?

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The Munchak hiring is looking like a smarter move than ever. At the start of the season, it was "We need to draft a left tackle in the first round, we need to draft a right tackle, all of our linemen but Pouncey and DeCastro are god-awful." The competition for the tackle spots was a competition to see who would play the worst and lose the job because we'd be better off with literally anyone else. Now our problem is that Adams was playing well, but not well enough to unseat the starter. It's a complete reversal.

I don't know, maybe they just managed to string together a few good games, or got lucky, but if this is the difference a real OL coach makes, give that man a fat raise. He may have finally found the key to unlocking the offense from sleep mode, and saved us two or more high draft picks.

I am also starting to wonder about the injuries. Under Kugler and that guy that lost the line last year, we had several injuries. This year, thankfully, we have been pretty healthy.

[GBMelBlount]

Sure is fun when you have some toys to play with. And enough time to play with them.

Classic!



Congratulations Ben!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vader29]

*Goodell sitting in his darkened office seething in anger*

I had to brighten up the picture to see what he was really looking at.

[tube517]

I had to brighten up the picture to see what he was really looking at.

Where are the flames so Deebo can pee pee on them? Oh wait, he would never do that.....

[fansince'76]

The Munchak hiring is looking like a smarter move than ever. At the start of the season, it was "We need to draft a left tackle in the first round, we need to draft a right tackle, all of our linemen but Pouncey and DeCastro are god-awful." The competition for the tackle spots was a competition to see who would play the worst and lose the job because we'd be better off with literally anyone else. Now our problem is that Adams was playing well, but not well enough to unseat the starter. It's a complete reversal.

I don't know, maybe they just managed to string together a few good games, or got lucky, but if this is the difference a real OL coach makes, give that man a fat raise. He may have finally found the key to unlocking the offense from sleep mode, and saved us two or more high draft picks.

(knocking on wood) This is also the first time in a very long while that the OL has been able to play TOGETHER as a single, cohesive and unchanging unit for a prolonged stretch of time for the most part. For the first season in God knows how long, they haven't been forced to play 18,000 different combinations of the OL and pull another stiff or two off the waiver wire every damn week due to (often multiple) linemen going down to injury for weeks at a time. I think that has helped as well.

I also don't think the massive reduction in OL injuries since Munch's arrival is a coincidence either. It's quite helpful when we don't have our own linemen knocking each other out because the "right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing" from play to play, so to speak.

Or (fill in the blank) gets Ben clobbered because they simply DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEIR ASSIGNMENT IS on a particular play and just stand there flat footed while the guy they're supposed to block flies right by them untouched as soon as the ball is snapped, and worse, all five of them take turns having similar brain farts throughout the game.

No, having an OL coach that actually knows how to coach an OL has made a world of difference, I think. It took a few weeks into the season, but I think we're starting to see the dividends of the Munchak hire now. The front seven of the Texans, Colts and Ravens are no slouches, and Ben was kept relatively safe from all of them.

[stillers4me]

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[Lady Steel]

Congratulations, Ben! I say let's go for the trifecta/hat trick!