Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been talking this offseason about how he thinks the offense can be as good as last year even without Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell. Some of the Steelers fans are buying the talk but one guy that isn't is Hall of Famer Terrell Davis who thinks Big Ben is just saying what he needs to as the leader of the team.
“Ben is saying what he has to say,” Davis said via 247 Sports. “He’s saying what he has to say right now. He has to say that, with those two guys gone, the climate is better in this locker room, and I don’t feel like I have to force the ball. I thought most quarterbacks wanted that go-to guy.”
“They want someone that, when things get rough and tough, I gotta find that receiver. I know exactly who to go to. You can’t tell me that he is better today than he was when AB was on that team.”
Roethlisberger said earlier in the off-season one of the things he is most excited about is the work that everyone has put in, and he thinks everyone is going to take a step forward.
“I’m excited. I’m really excited about what we have,” Big Ben said. “We put a lot of work in, and that’s what it’s gonna take. It’s gonna take a team effort and we’re all gonna give everything we have and see where it goes. We can’t predict the future, but we can predict that we’re gonna give everything we have.”
Even with Bell and Brown gone, the expectations are still high for Steelers and if the struggle there is going to be a lot of backlash on Roethlisberger.
He can silence all the critics with a big year and another deep run in the playoffs, and that's just what he and the fans hope will happen.
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