Yeah, but with a caveat.

If you get a running game, the fact of the matter is, over the last three years, the Steelers have had one of the worst rushing attacks in football.

The Pittsburgh Steelers.

With Tomlin Mr Run, the football stopped to run.

They've had one of the worst rushing attacks in all of football.

They ranked like 29th over the last two years.

This year, they ranked dead last.

They had the worst rushing attack in the National Football League.

I don't know if that's ever happened to the Steelers organization, ever until now.

And so I don't believe that Big Ben Roethlisberger is the guy that you can go to to say, fling that football 40 to 50 times a game and take us there.

He's not that dude anymore.

If that's the dude that he wants to be.

If that's the system he wants to playing big.

Ben Roethlisberger needs to retire because he's only gonna do is get himself hurt.

You gonna win a few football games, you get to the players, gonna go home early might get yourself hurt in the long run because he's no longer he can't shrug off.

He's not Big Ben that he used to be can't extend plays by shrugging off defenders or even scrambling, for that matter, that's not who he is any longer.

Okay, he's a stationary target, for the most part, is a big target.

He's a big target, but he's still a stationary target and these brothers coming at you, young and strong environment, they're gonna take him down.

And so for me, you have to be able to offset that by being able to run the football.

I have told you all on numerous occasions I am a fan of James Connor, the person.

Connor has a great, great story.

He's overcome a lot in his life.

I wish him nothing but the best.

He's not a scrub, but it's not an accident that since Levian Bell has departed, they can't run the damn football effectively.

He's not the answer.

He's not a game changer.

Okay, lesbian?

Who's in a Super Bowl?

That's right that do.

But even though they ain't, they ain't there because of him.

But the point is, is that the Steelers haven't been the same part.

Super Bowl, too.

That's right.

Whoa, that's what did again.

You could sit up and say That hasn't really had a detrimental effect.

You look at Chase Claypool.

You looking just at a brunch Games watch.

They've got in abundance.

Yeah, but again, we know who they're playing for and playing with in the end.

What it comes down to is the Steelers cannot run the football.

And if you can't run the football and you're asking Big Red Roethlisberger, who had 33 touchdowns, just 10 interceptions completed 65% of his passes do for nearly 4000 yards.

It's not good enough in two days and FL, you gotta be a 45 100 yard plus passer unless you can run like Lamar Jackson on.

That ain't them, especially because of what that means in high leverage situations.

But Molly, actually something you said, um, those you know, A B and and Laviana in the Super Bowl.

The reason they're in the Super Bowl, because they were.

They were both amazing in their primes and maybe still may be amazing.

Leave Ian's past his prime, but in his prime is one of the best I've ever seen.

Overall, they're both scrapheap players, though.

They got picked up on the cheap right?

That's why they're in the Super Bowl.

Ben Roethlisberger can't be paid like a quarterback like a great quarterback.

He has to get paid, like the way Cam Newton was paid.

Then could they?

Could he be in a Super Bowl?

I actually still think no.

Even then, I think no, it's easier to, you know, you could fit a running back or or a wide out who could do certain things for you Still on your team?

Cheap.

But your quarterback?

What have we seen in recent years?

The guys who are good enough to guide you to the Super Bowl to not mess it up are not good enough to put you over the top.

What I say about Garoppolo in San Francisco, Gough in Los Angeles, They haven't been good enough to get you over the top.

Just as kind of a game.

Manager Philip Rivers can win regular season games.

What happens in the playoffs?

Same thing in baseball you have.

You could have a junk ball pitcher get guys out in the regular season, but in the playoffs.

When the talent goes up, you better have that heat.

Roethlisberger don't have the heat anymore.

It doesn't look like to me now.

I was wrong about Brady in the sense that Brady have more heat than I gave him credit for.

And maybe Roethlisberger can push the ball down the field, But he's trying toe play, the way Brady's played for years, getting the ball out quick.

It's not really his style, did it?

Well, not his style.

And behind an offensive line.

Stephen and I don't blame Conner.

I blame the old line run blocking behind an offensive line.

It's not giving receivers time to get down the field or blocking for the run.

You gotta be able to do more than Roethlisberger could do right now.

Well, what I will say to you is this con.

I'm looking at his elusive ity, and I don't see it.

I don't think that he's an evasive kind of runner.

I mean, you create holes for him, he can run through them, but he's very rude.

Um, he's just very conservative, basically, just like he looks relatively pedestrian in that regard.

That's number one.

Number two, the running attack for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

I will remind you all that in 2000 and 16 they had the 14th ranked rushing attack, if I remember correctly in 2000 and 16, Uh, it was 14th, 2000 and 17.

It was 20th, 2000 and 18 2nd, the last ranked 34th last year, 29th in the league.

This year, dead last.

They don't have a running attack.

And when you talk about Big Ben Roethlisberger, Max, let's understand something.

There's plenty of quarterbacks that we look at it.

We say they ain't going to no damn Super Bowl, but we'd still pay him because they can ball.

See, we look at Big Ben Roethlisberger.

We have to look at Patrick Mahomes in the A F C, of course, but take Patrick Mahomes away.

And who could they beat if they had a running attack?

Practically anyone think, maybe Josh, if they have, if they had a running attack, I think the Pittsburgh Steelers would be able to beat anybody outside of Kansas City, even with Big Ben Roethlisberger.

I think they could beat anybody if they had a running attack because their defense is elite and you gotta running attack and big Ben Roethlisberger can make plays.

The problem is, when you're asking him to take the load that a star quarterback takes and shoulder it on that level without making mistakes, that's not big Ben.