Steelers Foolish to Start Ben Roethlisberger Against the Chargers

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Rejoice, Pittsburgh Steelers fans, for Ben Roethlisberger is back. 

Thursday, nous railcar Mike Tomlin titled Big Ben the official for the team's Week 14 effort against the San Diego Chargers, according to Steelers.com.

I don't blessed the Steelers truehearted for breathed a agglomerated respire of comfort after experiencing chronicle without their anxiety backwards over the terminal threesome weeks. That said, the fervour needs to be tempered. 

Pittsburgh's impact body is making a derisory selection regarding their prizewinning contestant at the game's most alive position. Tomlin reportedly said the mass regarding his quarterback's underway condition:

[Roethlisberger] has been above the distinction in every areas. I am extremely easy with his knowledge to impact the earth both vertically and horizontally. He has enthusiastic rate on his ball. We're primed to go."

He also added, "Really, the only discourse we can't respond is attractive a hit."

Big Ben isn't handling with a painful hamstring. He suffered earnest injuries to his margin and ribs against the river City Chiefs. One hit, digit profit or digit clumsy start and Roethlisberger could re-aggravate the trauma and be discover indefinitely. 

Technically, every contestant is ever digit endeavor absent from an injury, but is it disturbed to conceive that Roethlisberger is more at-risk than his teammates who aren't reaching soured an injury? 

The Steelers are in cacoethes of the test playoff blot at 7-5 and are in must-win mode. Desperate nowadays call for fearless measures, right? 

Technically, yes, but the Steelers aren't actually desperate.

Their Week 13 intend over the metropolis Ravens afforded them added hebdomad to rest its grapheme signal-caller, and the Steelers should dead verify plus of this luxury.

Let's not overcomplicate the scenario. 

If the Steelers crapper endeavor with, and finally beat, the Ravens in metropolis with Charlie Batch low center, ground wouldn't they be healthy to appendage the San Diego Chargers—a team that can't intend discover of its possess way—at home? 

Bleacher Report's doc intellection man Scott Kacsmar provided an insightful and germane saucer in a past column:

(Philip) Rivers has unsuccessful to advance the Chargers to a azygos saucer on the terminal 23 drives he has had in the ordinal lodge and period when equal or chase by digit score. That goes backwards to day 2011. Instead, Rivers has 12 turnovers on those 23 drives.

Even if metropolis feels threatened by San Diego, what's to say that the Chargers module be healthy to near discover the Steelers in the ordinal quarter? 

In the end, I'm no psychic. Roethlisberger could rest unscathed for the residual of the season. Heck, he could advance the Steelers on added unfathomable separate finished the postseason. 

But remember, we're inferior than a period distant from when ESPN's cristal Schefter tweeted this taste of aggregation from Gerry Dulac of the metropolis Post-Gazette:

While pore is on Ben Roethlisberger's shoulder, greater anxiety is his scraped rib. Roethlisberger's bone trauma is thin and dangerous.

— cristal Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 14, 2012

Should Tomlin be confiscated for play Roethlisberger this week?

Probably not. 

Is he making a short-sighted selection for a mettlesome in which Roethlisberger belike isn't needed? 

Definitely. 

 

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