But it shouldn't feel too damn good.

Um, they were 11 to know, and they ended the regular season losing four or five games.

And then yesterday they lost their first playoff game, Um, where he threw four interceptions and they were down 28 to nothing in the first quarter.

All totaled in seven games.

He's throwing 10 interceptions in the last seven games of the season.

And so I think you have to reflect on that.

And then you have to look at, scour the league and think about the people that are truly, truly successful.

Patrick Mahomes is an exceptional quarterback, but he's also someone who's capable of using his legs to make things happen.

Moving to change You look at Lamar Jackson that speaks for itself because of his running ability.

Look at Aaron Rodgers that speaks for itself.

Drew Brees and Tom Brady would be the admiration because they're not scrambling on anybody.

But you get that point, then you have to remember how it takes him.

Hill looked when he was filling in for Drew Brees because of his ability to run the football.

It's not so much that Ben Roethlisberger some scrub or something.

He's a two time Super Bowl champion.

He's a future Hall of Famer.

We respect, and we understand what he's brought to the game of football.

And it's not like he's Peyton Manning from 2015 or so, where the skills has so clearly and flagrantly dissipated.

Where you have Rob Ninkovich coming on national television the other day, acknowledging that as a defense in New England we knew that Peyton Manning couldn't throw the ball 20 yards, and so we planned accordingly.

That clearly is not the case with Big Ben Roethlisberger, but nevertheless, you do have to ask yourself at some point, When do you move in a different direction?

Because he's not the person that Big Ben, who could shrug off tacklers and extend plays the way that he used to, which, by the way, makes him a stationary target, yet a stationary target that's not nearly as accurate and precise as that of a Drew Brees.

And so when I look at it from that perspective, if you're the Pittsburgh Steelers and you could get your hands on a Mac Jones out of Alabama, for example, and he can fall into your lap as the future of this franchise.

I certainly would strongly consider moving on for Big Ben Roethlisberger at that particular time.

And if if nothing else, don't look past this next season in terms of keeping him around.

I do think that his days are close to being over the Big Ben that we knew and loved.

Well, I think Roethlisberger left it all out on the field, and and that's the thing.

That's what he's got at this point.

Um, he's made to look worse because the offensive line can't protect them, can't block for the run.

Can't give the receivers time to get down the field for the most part.

And there's no a be on the team anymore.

If you look, if Roethlisberger was in Brady's position, I don't think he'd be doing as well as Brady.

But he'd be doing at this point he do better if they protected him.

If they could run the ball a little bit.

If they had receivers everywhere you looked, I think Roethlisberger would look better than he looked, never and and and like, he gave it what he had.

Nevertheless, this has been going on all season.

He doesn't look good throwing the ball down the field.

Um, he made a had a remarkable season for a 38 year old coming off catastrophic injury who completely changed his style of play.

The question is, when you look at that guy, do you think you can win a Super Bowl with that?

I don't think so.

Yeah, big Bends decline and play is really a symptom of the major problem in Pittsburgh.

And when I look at these two teams, the Cleveland Browns now are kind of what the Pittsburgh Steelers used to be.

At least offensively, you know, offensively, the Pittsburgh Steelers were death, wrote right?

They were gonna be physical.

They were gonna bludgeon you.

They were going to run the football.

They were gonna have a quarterback who was tough and gritty and who could make enough place.

And, you know, you felt kind of like the other side was bad boy.

Now the Steelers are bad boy.

The Steelers got a wide receiver dancing all in the videos and doing all those things, and it really struck me after the game when the Cleveland Browns were mocking the Pittsburgh Steelers when Jarvis Landry and when Kareem Hunt or in the locker room, you know, Corvette Corvette.

And when Baker Mayfield saying same old Brown's Myles Garrett saying that same thing in his in his post game interview.

This team isn't scaring people anymore.

They aren't more physical.

They aren't dominant.

They aren't the big brothers off this division, and I think that falls on Ben as well.

If if I gave you a hat, Max and Stephen A Molly, if I gave you ahead and I put the four quarterbacks in the A F C.

North in it and we all had to go play a game, each of us would be praying that the quarterback we pulled wasn't Ben Roethlisberger, and that's how far he's fallen.

You'd want Lamar first.

You'd want Baker Mayfield first.

You'd even want Joe Burrow first, and I'm talking about for a year, not for the future.

You'd want them for the year.

And so when you look at Ben counting 41 million against the cap next year, what this team looks like with him, it's not just about what do you do with Ben Roethlisberger?

It's about, What do you do with this?

Offends?

You have an aging offensive line, you don't have a number one back and you have wide receivers that are sometimes unreliable.

And so when you look at what the end of this season was from the Pittsburgh Steelers, yeah, it was on Ben.

He didn't necessarily play well, but you knew who he was at the beginning of the season.

Get you through the ball plus 40 times a game 60 in the last game of the season in the playoffs.

You can't do that.

He can't do that.

So, yes, Big Ben's players declined, But I agree with Max.

If you had the right situation around him, I think he could be successful.

But you don't and then not having that, it's time to rebuild.

And so it's time to find you a quarterback of the future.

The problem with me is that Kevin Colbert, the GM off the Pittsburgh Steelers, hasn't found that quarterback already.

Like we see many other teams doing, he absolutely has not, and that's a big, big problem.

Make no mistake about it, but the other thing that I'd like to point out is that the Steelers.

The crime that they've committed more than anything else is the loss of their identity.

To not be able to run the football for three consecutive years is inexcusable.

They have ranked 29 30 or 31 29 then 32 this year.

That is just horrific, and that is not the Steelers identity.

If you can't run the football, you can't take any kind of pressure.

Offer Ben Roethlisberger whatsoever because all you're asking him to do is carry the load.

Even Mawr.

Then he was accustomed to for the first decade plus of his career.

And by doing so, you know he's prone to make mistakes, which is why he's never been mentioned in the same breath as the Tom Brady.

It's not because he can't have those heroic moments.

It's not because he can't put up big numbers.

It's because you know that with Big Ben Roethlisberger, even though he's going to doom or good than bad.

Ah, mistake's is inevitable.

It's what he does, is just that.

Customarily, you had a defense and you had a running game toe offset the impact of those mistakes.

The Steelers don't have that now and I don't think that is.

I think this is the first time that I've ever looked at the Pittsburgh Steelers, a football team, and I felt like the team was soft, like there were other teams that were significantly more physical than them.

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