Big Ben Not Happy

I'm not criticizing Ben for feeling however he wants to feel. I am criticizing him for creating a media story for his teammates to deal with when he could have avoided it by not being a dick in his response. That was apparently too much for Ben to do.

 

Remember, the Pats have drafted several QB's over the years. Every time someone is signed or drafted, it is another players replacement, yet we don't often hear guys whining about it the way Ben is. It's just ridiculous. Like I said earlier, show me another top QB who acts the way he does.

 

Okay on the bright side....

Maybe Ben will be motivated to crush the teams he should now, if he is looking over his shoulder...

 

I gave you a bunch of examples of QBs who act the way he does. Eli pouted when he lost his consecutive games streak. The Ravens are experiencing it. Hell, the other three teams with aging stud QBs who really have to be looking at QB in the next two years didn't even bother drafting a qb to avoid the circus.

And the whole Garapolo situation was a ****show. Aging stud qb, 3rd round drafted qb nearing the end of his rookie contract and showing all of the signs of being the next stud qb. And, from all of the news reports, Tommy boy forces them to trade him. I don't know if you read about it last season while Garapolo was leading a cruddy team to a 6-0 finish, but it was all over the news.

And I guess I'm sick of everyone saying "but the Patriots". I really don't give a crap. Don't use the one outlier in a league of 32, and then leave out key details to make your point. The day I have to say "well, the Patriots do it better" or "why can't our coach be more like Belichek" or "why can't our QB be more like Tom Brady" is the day I become a Patriot fan.

 

Hush your mouth.

No need to get crazy now. Talk like that is going off the deep end. Become a patriot fan, Huh. Do we have to have an intervention?

 

Ok I will pipe in now lol. It is a big deal I don't know about you but my phone gets about 3-4 updates a day the last few days about Ben not being happy. This isn't a bunch of message board guys talking it is people covering the NFL and the Steelers.

What I don't understand why is it the Media when it comes to Ben but yet not Bell. The same thing happened with Bell and everyone wanted to jump on him. Yeah Bell is asking for a lot of money but last I check isn't Ben the highest player on the team and double what Bell is making? Glenn not trying to turn this into a Bell vs Ben thing just trying to point out there is more than one squeaky wheel on this team.

I don't hate Ben and I don't love Bell but fair is fair the Media IMO has blown both these up and while both players should have taken the high road they didn't and both have to pay the price from the fans cause it comes with the job.

 

Front office needs to tell Ben to do what they are paying him to do and let the front office do there job.

 

We are doomed.

 

Guess you missed the part where I said Ben needs to keep his mouth shut.
The Bell situation is not even comparable. Nice try though.

 

Nope didn't miss that and it wasn't a try just pointing it out.......

 

Man everyone is really starting to pile on lol.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...he-steelers-after-meeting-ben-roethlisberger/

Everyone is now coming out with their own Ben hate stories

 

Imagine the madness if the Steelers took Rudolph in the 1st round.

 

As usual I blame a lot of this on the media but that is their jobs. I feel Ben could have done things a lot different and really do we know exactly what was said and how it was said? I am with Steelcity and Blast as far as hoping Ben and Mason are having a good laugh about this.......

 

July 28, 2017.. Enough Said. Ben shut up..

Roethlisberger told Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that he’s not willing to commit to playing past 2017.

Roethlisberger’s announcement in January 2017 that he was contemplating walking away from the NFL came as a bit of a surprise

“I’m going to take this off-season to evaluate, to consider all options,” Roethlisberger said in an interview on a Pittsburgh radio station. “To consider health, and family and things like that and just kind of take some time away to evaluate next season, if there’s going to be a next season.”

 

The Steelers are covering their butts. They liked this kid as an option if Ben was going to go, so getting him in the 3rd was like icing on the cake, instead of having to use a higher pick. Ben should have let the team know for sure he would be around and not be back and forth on the retirement fence. As they say, once that talk starts you already are. Ben may be feeling they are forcing his hand to a point but really they are preparing for when. Ben needs to prepare for a season and get the team where it needs to go. It's not up to this team to have all pros at every position so Ben can skate to another SB win, he has to do his part too. It's been 10 years since Ben took us to the promise land. The team is not building for just Ben to win but the franchise, and Ben better come down off his mr.franchise high horse and figure it out. They won championships before him and they will after him. I think that's why he and Bradshaw butted heads. The they can't do it without me mentality. Get your self in win shape Ben instead of coasting into the season and living on what I have done and being lazy about his off season approach. There is a new gunslinger on the stage coming to town, whatcha got left cowboy? Maybe you better get to work franchise.

 

I thought this article was spot on....

https://www.behindthesteelcurtain.c...son-rudolph-pick-an-a-steelers-2018-nfl-draft

 

Agree....like you said the evaluations were all over the place and I know they had interest but a part of me thinks maybe they were gonna wait until their second 3rd or even later but their were rumors Cincinnati was going to take him so we beat them to it. They might of been willing to lose him but not to a division rival so they grabbed him. I don't remember who might have been available after MR and before Chuks and I'm afraid to go back and look to see if there were any quality ILBs, RBs or any highly rated guys still there....

 

IDK, I saw another post here that stated the media is just treating Ben unfairly, no matter how well written, factual and logical the story is.

Poor Ben. Everybody is picking on him just because he can’t think before he speaks.

 

I wouldn't think a 15 year vet QB should need a whole lot of motivation, but if it helps I'm all for it.

 

Actually Ben told the team right after the playoff loss to the Jags he wanted to play 3 more years, the only time he talked retirement was after the loss to the Pats in the AFCCG after the 2016 season.

 

I don't think this story matters to the future success of the team. Rudolph and Dobbs seem squared away mentally to the point where I doubt either is impacted by Ben's comments. Ben certainly won't be negatively effected by the attention. But I don't at all agree with the people who are criticizing the media for reporting on this. Ben is the one who created this story, not the media.

 

He absolutely said it would be year to year at one point. Tomlin said he takes that talk of retirement seriously.

 

Just some guy named Aaron Rogers. Is he any good?