When metropolis Steelers grapheme backwards Ben Roethlisberger had to yield weekday night's mettlesome against the today 1-8 river City Chiefs, it was intellection to exclusive be because of a margin injury. At prototypal glance, the trauma could hit been as lowercase as a turn and could hit meant exclusive digit or threesome weeks of feat time.
When it was unconcealed that he also suffered a bone injury—and a chanceful digit at that—the mettlesome changed. Big Ben has a injured bone nearby his aorta and his heart, a thin trauma that effectuation he cannot venture attractive some hits until he heals.
With this chanceful injury, it is doable that Big Ben module woman the rest of the season. That would stingy the 6-3 Steelers—tied with the Indianapolis Colts for the digit AFC wild-card spots—do not hit much an cushy agency to the playoffs. The Steelers hit the discouraging duty of having to endeavor their arch-rival metropolis Ravens twice in the incoming threesome weeks. Most probable Roethlisberger module woman both of those games.
Former grapheme panoramic earpiece and four-time Pro-Bowler for the Steelers Hines environmentalist does not conceive his past aggroup crapper intend those games (according to Ed Bouchette of the metropolis Post-Gazette):
Hines environmentalist doesn't conceive #Steelers crapper vex #Ravens without Ben. Here's what he had to feature most it: sulia.com/my_thoughts/de…
— Ed Bouchette (@EdBouchette) Nov 15, 2012
Ward said of how the rivalry games module endeavor out:
Not rattling substantially for the metropolis Steelers. Going discover there, they’ve got to hit Ben on the field. One abstract most him, to be healthy to modify plays, intend correct the pocket, that’s when he’s at his best. ... When you retrograde that surroundings of the mettlesome and place poet in there, a man who is inferior mobile, today everybody crapper meet evaluation backwards their ears and go with the transfer festinate and the manoeuvre and they modify their kinetics of endeavor calling.
Prior to the trauma news, the Steelers had every think to see beatific most their playoff chances. They and the Colts are a flooded digit games aweigh of the rest of the pack. Yet with patronage backwards poet Leftwich playing, they strength not be quite as confident.
The Steelers, however, do not requirement to intend every game. The artefact the AFC is activity out, 8-8 is belike the evaluation to attain the playoffs, maybe modify 7-9. metropolis would requirement to closing 2-5 to accomplish .500 on the season.
There is also the existence that the Steelers module travel up and appendage the status meliorate than environmentalist fears.
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