Hotdog & Friends

Running segment alert. Constable Echelon thinks Ben Roethlisberger is wildly overrated and whenever recent on field events prove that point expect to read about it on H&F.

You didn’t think I was going to let this go right? Have you seen this Steelers offense recently? Egads. Pittsburgh going into the past two weeks had to be feeling great about their schedule. @NYJ and at home against woeful Miami. Time to pad the stats and play the backups right? Wrong. You may have forgotten that this Steeler squad is quarterbacked by the most overrated passer in the league. Every game’s a game!

When the dust settled after mighty Pittsburgh’s two tilts against teams that previously boasted a combined 1-18 record, the results weren’t pretty for Big Ben backers. Sum totals: Split the two games. One offensive touchdown produced.

That’s one offensive touchdown produced against the current 27th and 28th scoring defenses in the NFL. Those numbers are schewed a little though: they just played Ben Roethlisberger.

Further Roethlisberger thoughts. In one of my fantasy leagues the owner of the first place team (Hotdog in fact) recently took some heat for essentially dealing “Seven” for Andre Johnson. I thought the trade was a clear win for Hotdog. He sold high. Andre Johnson is good. Ben Roethlisberger is bad. “But he’s the 5th ranked scoring quarterback?” protested some. Sure, he’s been in some nice situations this year where his defense gave him a really short field and Big Ben capitalized.

But these last two games are what statheads call the classic “regress to the mean”. In layspeak? Roethlisberger sucks.

Read the original Ben Roethlisberger is a clown entry and delight at the misguided comments of Steeler fans! PS We support Big Ben sucks dot com! (Not like, financially though…)