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Column: Steelers ready for big-time reset
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Posted by Dejan Kovacevic
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ben Roethlisberger’s face scrunched up like a saturated prune as a bunch of us reporter types surrounded his locker stall late Sunday afternoon inside Arrowhead Stadium, and I was fairly certain I knew why.

The Steelers’ 23-13 flat-lined flop against the previously 1-5 Chiefs?

That had to be part of it. The franchise quarterback had just been stuck on the sideline for a fourth game with the injured left knee, helpless while watching third-stringer — or is it fourth-stringer — Landry Jones try in vain to carry his water.

But there sure seemed to be more.

Roethlisberger had dressed in a raging hurry, draped on his coat and began wheeling his luggage out just as our armada invaded. Reluctantly but politely, he paused a moment to take a couple questions.

How close had he come to playing in this game?

“Pretty close. It felt pretty close.”


Does he think he’ll be back for the first-place Bengals next week?

“That’s the coach’s call. I hope so.”

He then wheeled that luggage forward again, bracing as if he were about to take down Terrell Suggs, but was stopped again. His grimace grew more pronounced. His eyes clamped up.

“I’ll see you this week, guys.”

Yeah, that sounded more like it. Not the statement itself, necessarily, but the surliness with which it was delivered and with which the luggage finally rolled away. See, when Roethlisberger’s idle, he can be all kinds of folksy and chummy. But when he’s ready for football, he gets a little foul.
 
Sounds like he thought he should have been able to play today and the loss really pissed him off. If he doesn't play next week then **** it, just put him the IR.

I know the Chiefs aren't a good team but when you think your star QB is good enough to go then you play him.
 
Sounds like he wanted to play in KC
 
Ben's pissed....he's going to attack the second half of the season with a vengeance. And stomping the **** out of the Bungles next week will be the perfect start of our run.
 
scrapdog said:
Ben's pissed....he's going to attack the second half of the season with a vengeance. And stomping the **** out of the Bungles next week will be the perfect start of our run.
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Hopefully he's ready to go with not much rust to shake off.
 
mdk2 said:
Hopefully he's ready to go with not much rust to shake off.
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Yeah, I know he has a sub-par winning percentage when returning from an injury but hopefully this won't be the case after having a week of practice under him going into this week.
 
It was a mistake not to play Ben in this Chiefs game! There was 2 sacks of Jones and that was in the 4th QTR. If Ben played in this game as well as the Rats game this Steelers team would be 6-1. As it is they are 4-3 in essence 3 games behind the Bungles and we only play them twice!

I know many will say nah we should have say Ben regardless but when it's only a 16 game season, every game counts and this would have been a cakewalk with Ben in there and he knew it! This was more Tomlin and the front office thinking hey they are a 1 win team....we can beat them easily. Well suprise.....chalk up another in the loss column.

I think the Steelers were so confident in the game they deactivated Ben. They should have kept him active and dressed him for the game in case the offense needed a spark! I would have given him 3 or 4 series to see what he could do vs the Chiefs.

Now he'll go into a marquee matchup vs the Bungles cold with no real in game action for 5 weeks!

I don't like how the Steelers are approaching this one....I hope Ben bounces back in a hurry...like the first drive next week because we need him to be on...like Donkey Kong!
 
I still think it wasn't a mistake to sit Ben. One game doesn't make a season and you side on caution so not to have a re-injury. Gave it a week to strengthen. And that could be significant moving forward..
 
Still in the hunt for that Wildcard

Go Ben
 
Pre game he sounded like he wanted to play and felt like he could. I agree that dressing him would have been okay and giving him a couple of series to shake off the rust might have made the difference between a w and an l. These losses to bottom feeders hurt......like Chicoman said. Landry is who we thought he was.
 
steel dino said:
Sometimes it is the Head Coach's job to protect the players from themselves...
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Exactly. I wouldn't want to see Berger out there being KC's tackling dummy the same way it went when he was playing the 49'ers some years ago. Practically on one leg.
 
so we're 4-3, having had to play the first seven games without Bell, Ben and Bryant at various points and using Vick and Landry at QB.
really, it's not that bad.

especially when you consider we have Ben coming back.
 
Spike said:
Still in the hunt for that Wildcard

Go Ben
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We win this weekend then we're still in the hunt for the division IMO. Bengals will lose games, they are playing above their heads right now.
 
Although I think they should have won yesterday, there comes a point where injuries become insurmountable. The next 3 games will determine how good this team really is. IMO, 2-1 will be a win as they go into the bye week. Maybe Pouncey comes back and the D is healthy as they drive toward the wild card.
 
Again, with Tuit in there, the defense is in the top half in the league. With Ben in there the Offense is in the top 3 at worse. They ought to win a lot of games this second half... maybe all of them. The Bengals arent winning out and as for the wild card, it looks like the contenders for those are the jets, us, Miami, and the Raiders. There will not be anyone pulling away from us because of that KC loss... we are still in great shape in a weak AFC race
 
Watched Ben in pregame yesterday. He's ready to play. Not sure how he will be with a pass rush in his face but he's definitely playing this week. His passes were sharp.
 
Hines57 said:
Watched Ben in pregame yesterday. He's ready to play. Not sure how he will be with a pass rush in his face but he's definitely playing this week. His passes were sharp.
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Passing wasnt ever going to be the criteria for him playing... laterial movement in the pocket was....
 
If I recall, the general consensus around here was that if we went 2-2 without Ben, we would be in good shape. I believe that is where we are - in good shape.
 
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