Steelers Great Ben Roethlisberger Received Special Treatment From Patriots Legend Bill Belichick

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Aside from both teams having future Hall of Famers at the quarterback position, they were both also coached by two of the best head coaches in the league, Mike Tomlin and Belichick. On a recent episode of his podcast, Games With Names, Julian Edelman discussed how Belichick would game plan for Roethlisberger.

"We’d have like a 45-play cut up. Bill would show the whole team a cut up anytime we were playing the Steelers about how Big Ben was so hard to bring down. It’d be like NFL Films, he’d play it through and it’d be Ben shrugging off a huge defensive lineman. He’d pause it and go, ‘Just when you think you got him, you don’t.’ Guy was pretty good, love, love Big Ben."

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[Hawkman]

Always amazed me how Ben could shrug off big lineman.

[Rocky Mtn.]

Always amazed me how Ben could shrug off big lineman.

I was always amazed how Brady got all those RTP calls and Ben didn't.

[DesertSteel]

An people who think Ben was immobile need to go back and watch highlights of his in his mid 20s.

[Craic]

An people who think Ben was immobile need to go back and watch highlights of his in his mid 20s.

Depends on what is meant by immoble. Some mean he couldn't run with the ball. I'd agree. He was big and lumbering. But, he had the ability to be mobile in the pocket and roll to extend plays. More to his strength, however, was his ability to move two or three inches. So many times, he could twitch a shoulder, bend slightly at the waist, or do something just enough that a tackler would slide right past him.

[lipps83]

Ben was probably one of the best, if not the best, that I have ever seen moving around the pocket avoiding defenders.

[Mojouw]

So the game plan was to make sure you smack the crap out of the large man until he was on the ground?

Must've had to dig deep into the coaching archives for that chestnut.

Good thing he got all that 1930's Navy film digitized.

[EzraTank]

Edelman left the part out where they would then look at all the offensive signals they stole on video ...