I wanted to comment earlier on this, but, I agree with you, Drew. (I think there was one comma too many in there, somewhere)Drew wrote:Okay, so I know I would probably get killed for even mentioning this....I didn't see the whole game, I didn't even see the whole drive..... but where does Big Ben rank in the top QB's right now?
I have had him on my fantasy team all year (despite him going super low in relation to other QB's) and he's been great. Not to mention he's got some rings and as of late (or at least two games in recent memory) he's fitting clutch balls RIGHT where they need to be to win big games. I have a feeling he can't be above Peyton....but is he better than Brady now? Is he same, higher, or lower than Brees? Where you guys got him?
I stated your opinion some 3 months earlier about Big Ben, and when I learned he had a 32 TD season in either 2006 or 2007, I thought he might be able to duplicate it again this year, so i took a chance on him in the 11th round of one of my fantasy drafts this year. He has gone so above and beyond what was expected and what we have seen from him in the past two seasons (hover around 3000, barely above 20 TDs) that we forget how good of a playmaker he is.
But... I still think it was a miraculous win he had against Green Bay, and I hate the fact that announcers and analysts are patting Aaron Rodgers on the back for "matching Ben throw for throw". What?! Rodgers was dictating that game for 50+ minutes, and he had the better all-around game from a QB that one could ever hope for: 3 passing TDs, 1 rushing TD, 375+ passing yards. It was Roethlisberger who had to panic and play catch up to the brilliant play of Rodgers, and that led to his obscene 500+ passing yards in that game, and the last second toe-touch touchdown he seems to have a penchant for locating.
I'll give Roethlisberger credit for keeping plays alive and perhaps having 25% more luck than the average man should have. But he does make some errant throws every 5 times, he holds onto the ball way too long sometimes looking for plays downfield when his TE or RB is open just six yards ahead of him, and if he perhaps is able to correct those little miscues, I see no reason he doesn't win an MVP sometime in the near-future.
Though, I do think he should have at least won the Super Bowl MVP (what is it about Steelers' SB winners where they think the WR deserves the credit for "saving" the game, where without them, the game would be lost? Bradshaw should have had at least 1 more SB MVP honor, if not more, and Santonio was all but absent for half of the game up until the final last minute drive; I give Roethlisberger the due praise for having such keen vision).
But... I'll say it again... he had a miraculous win against Green Bay last week, and an even more miraculous win (with heaps of help from the biased officials) when he won this past year's Super Bowl against Arizona. (I'm still salty about it, don't think I'm not).
