Faker faked too long

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(12-10-2018, 10:52 AM)The Real Deal Wrote: I don’t agree with that. I mean, yeah if he’s out there tossing Gatorade coolers around a’la Antonio Brown, then yeah it’s a story.

But the problem here is this isn’t the first time Ben has left a game with a weak, overplayed injury only to come in and try to, “against all odds”, in “warrior” fashion, save the day.

I turned the game on in the third quarter having no idea that he was injured. I immediately looked at my brother in law who is a dolphins fan and said “he will come back in, win the game and be praised for how tough he is”.

Same song and dance except this time it bit  them in the behind.

Except no one said any of that.

He was hurt...he got treatment and was cleared to play.  Tomlin said HE kept him out because of the "offensive flow" whatever the hell that means.

We don't know how much Ben lobbied to get back in.  We DO know that Tomlin didn't want to put his starting QB, who was cleared to play, back in.

Now, if he had said he didn't want to risk further injury with a big game against the Pats coming up...ok.  They were winning and Dobbs wasn't playing awful.  that *might* be a decent reason.  But as I said Ben's in the no-win.  He wants to play, he could play (and showed he was good enough to drive the team down the field twice in 5 minutes), but the coach has his helmet.

That's on Tomlin.

But I've said for years (and the Yinzers have attacked me for it) that Ben and the other stars on the team have bailed out Tomlin's bad decisions for so long that I think the coach just thinks it will always happen.  I really believe that Tomlin thought like your friend did that he could just hold Ben out and then if the Steelers needed to come back he can just put him in and no problem.

Problem is no one is perfect and it doesn't work all the time.  And it bit Tomlin and he didn't know how to explain it because it showed his lack of coaching ability.