Yeah, you are. That's exactly what you typed. Now please pipe down until you can think of something intelligent to say, preferably with some objective fact to support it.I'm not claiming that.
"You've heard people brag about 'being in the zone'. They don't know what the Hell being in the zone is about. I played in the NFL for 15 years and I was only in the zone that one time." - "Mean" Joe Greene on the 1974 playoff victory over Oakland
"You've heard people brag about 'being in the zone'. They don't know what the Hell being in the zone is about. I played in the NFL for 15 years and I was only in the zone that one time." - "Mean" Joe Greene on the 1974 playoff victory over Oakland
"You've heard people brag about 'being in the zone'. They don't know what the Hell being in the zone is about. I played in the NFL for 15 years and I was only in the zone that one time." - "Mean" Joe Greene on the 1974 playoff victory over Oakland
Thats all fine but when the ball continuously sales far over the receivers head out of the back of the end zone or into the first row, that excuse really doesnt fly. Bens misses were uncatchable no matter how open the receiver was. They had nothing to do with the disruption in most cases.
Agreed. Of course he's not going to make all of those throws, but he needs to make a few of them. Spotty QB play is exactly what he's giving us. A lot of it is timing. Like the fly route with Washington on the 1st play and then when he missed Switzer on a key 3rd down conversion. Missing practice doesn't help in building chemistry with new WRs.
"You've heard people brag about 'being in the zone'. They don't know what the Hell being in the zone is about. I played in the NFL for 15 years and I was only in the zone that one time." - "Mean" Joe Greene on the 1974 playoff victory over Oakland
I'm done with Batman and Robin. Sorry I didn't include you the first time. Yes, I know football very well. I know that Switzer was open and Ben missed him because they weren't on the same page. I know that practice is where you perfect things like that and I also know that Dan Fouts played QB so of course he's going to side with the QB. We see communication issues between Ben and his WRs every game it seems, and it's never Ben's fault.
Last edited by 43Hitman; 09-17-2018 at 08:48 AM.
I agree with you there... I just don't think he missed them due to poor accuracy. I think we saw lots of examples of errant throws in the Cleveland game, but he looked pretty good as far as I could tell in the KC game. He seemed to be putting the ball where he wanted it to be... but it's hard to know for sure without replays showing the other end.
FWIW, Ben said he thought he was pulling some throws right.
"You've heard people brag about 'being in the zone'. They don't know what the Hell being in the zone is about. I played in the NFL for 15 years and I was only in the zone that one time." - "Mean" Joe Greene on the 1974 playoff victory over Oakland
Exactly. Any deep pass down the sidelines ended up 10 yards out of bounds.
Barry Reeger | Special to PennLive)
Though he played well down the stretch, the Steelers had to chase the game – in part – because Roethlisberger was significantly less accurate than Patrick Mahomes. On at least six occasions, Roethlisberger overthrew open receivers. That's once per 10 throws and one more overthrow of an open receiver than Mahomes had incompletions all game.
Still, the quarterback is due plenty of credit for keeping Pittsburgh in the game, especially with Antonio Brown often contained. Roethlisberger finished with 452 yards from 39-of-60 passing with 1 sack and 3 touchdowns while getting out dueled by Mahomes.
The first half yesterday was the same or almost to the first half against the chiefs...2 first drive, the offense does nothing in its drives after it was 3 TD and an attempted FG...Against KC, it was 21-21 after the first half against TB .... the Steelers were leading 30-10.
It makes a difference when your defense can be just average, when you have no margin of error it's not easy!
Roethlisberger had a good game against KC even if it was not perfect and at least we will not hear that Ben is in decline for a week ...
I am about the weapons Ben has now:
AB
Juju (3 straight 100 yd games)
The Rookie Farmer Washington - he is looking more comfortable and looks to get better
Glass McStiff Arm - When he's healthy he's dangerous and a good blocker. Bad thing is he is unreliable in terms of staying healthy
The Outlaw - Dependable/never injured. Solid backup.
James Conner - Loved that final drive to end the game.
All this is overshadowed by a fake defense.
For those who said that Ben was part of the problem against the chiefs ...
I heard the same comment in this forum after the game against the chiefs when some gave credit to the defense for our second quarter comeback ...
Ben got on the field and stopped the Chiefs from scoring and got the ball back to score on Offense each time. Ben did it all. Ben is truly a dual threat QB. He can play all eleven positions on Defense as well as Quarterback. Damn, no wonder our Defense is so bad half the time, Ben unfortunately can't do two things at once!
He built up a 30-10 lead against Tampa Bay and deliberately stopped scoring for the entire second half so he can hold them off while he played Defense.
Last edited by Edman; 09-27-2018 at 09:36 AM.