I love my quarterback but he needs to be put back in his place!

Perhaps we as fans need to be humbled. We have a two time SB winning QB who has guided the team to 3 Super Bowls and has won them tons of games. Perhaps the QB, who is going to the HOF, has a right to talk to the media, ask questions, play in the Pro Bowl, etc.

I see no reason why he needs to be humbled. He had a pretty great year last year, it just so happened that he got injured at an inopportune time and the defense decided to shit the bed in the playoffs.

It happens, but with Ben we will back back again and again competing for titles. We were 12-4 last year and one defensive lapse from winning the #2 seed.

what I hope the next OC and QB coach can get Ben to do is throw the ball away sometimes. I know people are going to say “but he makes plays out of nothing”, and you are correct in that assessment, but Ben lives too much by that code, there has to be some smarts included here.

Review the play when he hurt his nakle against Cleveland…it was a totally unnecessary injury…plain and simple he should have thrown that ball away. He needs to make better decisions in situations like that. He scramble right and saw nothing was on and then tried to scramble back left again and got his leg caught in a human vice of 630lbs of Cleveland DL.

The dude is tough as nails and I love him for it but sometimes he has to be smarter and I know we can say that on many occasions with Ben on and off the field. Cols714 mentioned all the QBs we had prior to Ben and he is correct but he has HOF talent that isn’t being achieved even with a BA more wide open passing O.

Reel him in and re-teach him a bit…defenders have had to re-learn how to tackle why not Ben.

He will move on I’m sure, but in the wake of a friend getting basically fired, you extend your sympathies, say you wish it hadn’t happened, that you don’t agree with the decision to fire him, then you move on. That’s all that is happening here. Ben hasn’t said anything nasty about the Rooneys, he only said that he doesn’t like that his friend got fired. There’s absolutely nothing in the world wrong with that. The Rooneys are big enough to understand that (Unlike Colts owner Jim Irsay after Peyton Manning said similar things toward Bill Polian and Jim Caldwell) we should be too.

How would you like to be Ben’s friend if after the moment you got fired or released he’s there talking trash about you? I think people are a little blind to the human aspect of this story or are blind because this is about BA. What if it wasn’t the hated Offensive Coordinator, but instead an Offensive Lineman? Let’s say it was a Left Tackle who was Ben’s friend, but he was a little overweight coming into training camp after recuperating from surgery and the FO cut him because of it. Would you say Ben needs to “be put back in his place” for expressing sympathy or saying that he didn’t agree with the decision? No, you’d understand that though the cut was justified, Ben was doing nothing more than being a good friend and teammate. It’s no different with BA than it was with Max Starks, except the fans didn’t have a blind hatred of Max Starks.

BB has always held the ball longer than any other QB and he has made some huge plays becaue of it. However, he needs to get a better at knowing when to say when. For instance:

1. I am probably wrong but on the # but it seems like 5-7 times this year he took a sack that took us out of FG range. That is a tweak in has game that needs to be made. If it is 3rd down near mid field. Try to make soemthing happen even with a sack you can still pin the other team deep with a decent punt.

2. Throwing some quick passes also slows down an agressive pass rush. We should try it more often. So do draws, screens, and shovel passes which we never run (don’t bing up the Hines Ward -3yds against cleveland as that may have been our only shovel pass all year).

3. Is our O-line really that bad at protecting Ben? In 2006 our staring O-line was if I remember and I am not sure of injuries (Marvel Smith, Faneca, Hartings, K. Simmons, and M. Smith). Ben was sacked 46 times that year in 15 games. Then maybe the 2011 version of our make shift line was not that bad. Don’t get me wrong could be much better but not the only area improvement is needed.

Actually, from the stats I looke at this year Ben was sacked on 7.2% of the pass plays run by the Steelers. That is the lowest % of his career.

Again, our O-line needs to get better and hopefully not be ravaged by injuries. However, a new OC and BB working together can tweak the offense, right the ship, and make the 2012 offense top 10.

Can’t get enough of “Ben needs to be put in his place” comments. They are plentiful and equally hilarious every time.

He is a top tier qb who has had success. I think there is needed balance in BBs approach to the game. Too many hits and sack, drives that could be extended simply by checking down. The coach and the OC have to be able to have that conversation and enforce those principles.
I don’t know why no one has asked where coach Tomlin has been in the process of trying to reign in BB?

I hope they invest in an oline as BB is 30 and is in my opinion in danger of morphing into Marc Bulger.

you assholes need to quit beating on big ben.he is the reason we are twelve and four,,also he is the reason we have two more rings and are in contention every year,he is the reason that he will break every bradshaw record so quit being a dick ,the man is a top qb ,and we should be a pass first team because he has the tools to do it,sure we have a great defense and players,though without ben we wouldnt have the complete team.get a fuckin life