Ben Wearing a Boot

[DukieBoy]

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I think most of the Adams talk comes from residual anger about the team thinking they were perfetly fine with the junk they had and not recognizing a need before the season started when there was still time to do some cap finagling and find him the $$. A. Smith admited he would have restructured had they just asked. There are a couple of players that could have been cut to make a little room. The Steelers are known as being good at capology; they just failed to understand their o-line situation.

Being factual and rational ... Ghost. Right on, too.

[Djfan]

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I think most of the Adams talk comes from residual anger about the team thinking they were perfetly fine with the junk they had and not recognizing a need before the season started when there was still time to do some cap finagling and find him the $$. A. Smith admited he would have restructured had they just asked. There are a couple of players that could have been cut to make a little room. The Steelers are known as being good at capology; they just failed to understand their o-line situation.

Coaching?

[Starlifter]

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hey o-line - who's laughing now???

every opponent........

[Jooser]

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The OL has been in decline since Super Bowl XL. We've spent too many draft picks on skill players and line backers. The Texans are putting it together and so are the Lions. HOW? They finally figured out you quit wasting ALL your high level picks on only skill position players and you build from the line up. The Pats too have a very good line, Brady rarely takes a big shot and he has second rate RB's and WR's (except Moss). Ben is being obliterated before our very eyes. The wheels have come off the cart, it's time to go back to basics folks. It all starts up front.

[DukieBoy]

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The OL has been in decline since Super Bowl XL. We've spent too many draft picks on skill players and line backers. The Texans are putting it together and so are the Lions. HOW? They finally figured out you quit wasting ALL your high level picks on only skill position players and you build from the line up. The Pats too have a very good line, Brady rarely takes a big shot and he has second rate RB's and WR's (except Moss). Ben is being obliterated before our very eyes. The wheels have come off the cart, it's time to go back to basics folks. It all starts up front.

We need a Bill Murray "That's a Fact, Jack" emoticon.

[unionsteeler]

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He is playing like the boots are on his hands !!!!

sOrry couldn't resist !

[unionsteeler]

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The OL has been in decline since Super Bowl XL. We've spent too many draft picks on skill players and line backers. The Texans are putting it together and so are the Lions. HOW? They finally figured out you quit wasting ALL your high level picks on only skill position players and you build from the line up. The Pats too have a very good line, Brady rarely takes a big shot and he has second rate RB's and WR's (except Moss). Ben is being obliterated before our very eyes. The wheels have come off the cart, it's time to go back to basics folks. It all starts up front.

Welker is hardly second rate...just sayin. And Moss is out of the league.

[Djfan]

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The OL has been in decline since Super Bowl XL. We've spent too many draft picks on skill players and line backers. The Texans are putting it together and so are the Lions. HOW? They finally figured out you quit wasting ALL your high level picks on only skill position players and you build from the line up. The Pats too have a very good line, Brady rarely takes a big shot and he has second rate RB's and WR's (except Moss). Ben is being obliterated before our very eyes. The wheels have come off the cart, it's time to go back to basics folks. It all starts up front.

Welker is hardly second rate...just sayin. And Moss is out of the league.

Welker is great, but Marsha made him that way.

[RuthlessBurgher]

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The OL has been in decline since Super Bowl XL. We've spent too many draft picks on skill players and line backers. The Texans are putting it together and so are the Lions. HOW? They finally figured out you quit wasting ALL your high level picks on only skill position players and you build from the line up. The Pats too have a very good line, Brady rarely takes a big shot and he has second rate RB's and WR's (except Moss). Ben is being obliterated before our very eyes. The wheels have come off the cart, it's time to go back to basics folks. It all starts up front.

We need a Bill Murray "That's a Fact, Jack" emoticon.

[Jooser]

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The OL has been in decline since Super Bowl XL. We've spent too many draft picks on skill players and line backers. The Texans are putting it together and so are the Lions. HOW? They finally figured out you quit wasting ALL your high level picks on only skill position players and you build from the line up. The Pats too have a very good line, Brady rarely takes a big shot and he has second rate RB's and WR's (except Moss). Ben is being obliterated before our very eyes. The wheels have come off the cart, it's time to go back to basics folks. It all starts up front.

Welker is hardly second rate...just sayin. And Moss is out of the league.

Welker is great, but Marsha made him that way.

Exactly DJ, and Marsha made him great because he has ALL DAY to throw to him, and a coach smart enough to scheme to Welker's strengths. Moss was only there a few years, but the Pats are consistently contenders every year, it's just good solid fundamental football by their OL.

[Djfan]

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The OL has been in decline since Super Bowl XL. We've spent too many draft picks on skill players and line backers. The Texans are putting it together and so are the Lions. HOW? They finally figured out you quit wasting ALL your high level picks on only skill position players and you build from the line up. The Pats too have a very good line, Brady rarely takes a big shot and he has second rate RB's and WR's (except Moss). Ben is being obliterated before our very eyes. The wheels have come off the cart, it's time to go back to basics folks. It all starts up front.

Welker is hardly second rate...just sayin. And Moss is out of the league.

Welker is great, but Marsha made him that way.

Exactly DJ, and Marsha made him great because he has ALL DAY to throw to him, and a coach smart enough to scheme to Welker's strengths. Moss was only there a few years, but the Pats are consistently contenders every year, it's just good solid fundamental football by their OL.

Yup. BA has no idea what this is about, and Tomlin seems to have forgotten.

BA wouldn't be water boy on that squad.

[unionsteeler]

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The OL has been in decline since Super Bowl XL. We've spent too many draft picks on skill players and line backers. The Texans are putting it together and so are the Lions. HOW? They finally figured out you quit wasting ALL your high level picks on only skill position players and you build from the line up. The Pats too have a very good line, Brady rarely takes a big shot and he has second rate RB's and WR's (except Moss). Ben is being obliterated before our very eyes. The wheels have come off the cart, it's time to go back to basics folks. It all starts up front.

Welker is hardly second rate...just sayin. And Moss is out of the league.

Welker is great, but Marsha made him that way.

So what would Wallace be with Brady or Manning... maybe 2o Tds and 1500 yards ...probably. Those "elite Qbs " make everyone around them better...Ben does not have that ability....never did never will .

[hawaiiansteel]

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Steelers' Roethlisberger might miss Tennessee game

By Scott Brown, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, October 3, 2011



HOUSTON — The last player out of the visiting locker room late Sunday afternoon at Reliant Stadium was the Steelers' most important one.

And it didn't bode well that quarterback Ben Roethlisberger limped to the shower after a 17-10 loss to the Houston Texans, limped back to his locker, had crutches dropped off to him and answered questions with his left foot in a walking boot.

Roethlisberger, who was scheduled to have an MRI on the foot, said he doesn't know if he will play Sunday against the visiting Tennessee Titans.

The good news for the Steelers on a day that produced little of it: Roethlisberger did not re-injure the foot in which he sustained a stress fracture last season, and he said he is willing to play through pain as the Steelers try to ease their own.

"If I can be out there, I'm going to be out there," Roethlisberger said after completing 16 of 30 passes for 206 yards and one interception. "If I have to cast it up — we saw I had to do that last year — I cast up my foot for the last half of the year. If we have to do it, I'll do it."

Roethlisberger said he hurt his foot near the end of the game but that it didn't happen on the final drive when outside linebacker J.J. Watt hit him in the lower leg and drew a roughing-the-passer penalty that wiped out a Texans interception.

Roethlisberger said he hurt his foot on the Steelers' second to last series of the game.

Playing behind a patchwork offensive line — the Steelers were missing left tackle Jonathan Scott (knee) and right guard Doug Legursky (shoulder) — Roethlisberger took a beating.

The Texans sacked him five times — six if you count a Connor Barwin takedown that resulted in a lost fumble in the first quarter but was nullified by an illegal-contact penalty.

Roethlisberger, however, took the blame for the loss and said he needed to play better for his linemen, not vice versa.

"I wanted to step up and make plays, and I didn't do that today," Roethlisberger said.

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[Shawn]

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IIRC it's a salary issue AND a cap issue. So, how do we get under the cap and get Hotel in?

We could have before the start of the season. I would have started by cutting Smith, Ward and Farrior.

[feltdizz]

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The OL has been in decline since Super Bowl XL. We've spent too many draft picks on skill players and line backers. The Texans are putting it together and so are the Lions. HOW? They finally figured out you quit wasting ALL your high level picks on only skill position players and you build from the line up. The Pats too have a very good line, Brady rarely takes a big shot and he has second rate RB's and WR's (except Moss). Ben is being obliterated before our very eyes. The wheels have come off the cart, it's time to go back to basics folks. It all starts up front.

Welker is hardly second rate...just sayin. And Moss is out of the league.

Welker is great, but Marsha made him that way.

Exactly DJ, and Marsha made him great because he has ALL DAY to throw to him, and a coach smart enough to scheme to Welker's strengths. Moss was only there a few years, but the Pats are consistently contenders every year, it's just good solid fundamental football by their OL.

Marsha doesn't have all day to throw because the OL is great... it's because he gets it out so fast teams aren't trying to blitz him. Teams are tired by the end of the first qtr when they play the Pats.

The last 2 playoffs the OL was dominated when teams brought pressure.

Trust me, if Batch plays next week the OL will look better. If Redman starts next week the OL will look better. Our QB and RB aren't realistic about the OL they play behind and it's killing our team. The ball has to come out fast, the hole has to be hit fast...