Faker faked too long

[*michaelsean*]

(12-10-2018, 10:59 AM)GMDino Wrote: 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.

Don't want to interrupt that flow with your HoF QB.  (Ignoring that there was no offensive flow) He's better than old Marv, but I'm starting to think the dorky looking dude in Cleveland may be the best.