mr3putt
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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No question about it.....
Ward wanted him in the huddle tonight
Man, I'm sure a bunch of you guys saw that; pretty crazy stuff. Hines basically said that everyone plays hurt, and that it's maybe 50-50 that guys in the locker room are behind Ben for not playing due to his concussion. I was pretty shocked to hear it, and Ward made it very clear that players can't be worrying about the rest of their lives when they're players.
Thankfully, Rodney and Dungy were both all over him after that. I especially liked where Harrison said that, in the Pats' locker room, Brady could sit out for any reason or no reason at all and it wouldn't even occur to anyone to question him. He also aptly pointed out that, player or not, to not think about your life in the long term is just stupid.
What did you guys think?
Ward can call out Big Ben all he wants. If he really wants his QB in there he can take it up with Pittsburgh's medical staff. They're the one's who downgraded him yesterday. The team made the call. Not Ben. I think he'd play if he could. IMO
From Bob Holtzman's Piece last night on ESPN:
"I'm told Roethlisberger planned on playing but that head coach Mike Tomlin and the Steelers' doctors want him to sit as a precaution."
It's nice to talk tough sometimes. But it's stupid to ask your franchise QB to play when he's not ready after a concussion. Really stupid.
A potential 15-year Hall of Fame career versus a divisional opponent in a disappointing season.
Then they should have told Hines prior to his interview
I mean he basically savaged Ben under direct questioning.
No wriggle room here
No love either
The NFL is changing their concussion guidelines ... the Steelers are ahead of the current policy in this area ... a neurologist (Dr. Joseph Maroon) said Ben should sit out the game ... good for them in this regard.
"This game is almost like a playoff game," Ward told NBC's Bob Costas. "It's almost a 'must' win. So, I can see some players or some teammates kind of questioning like, 'Well, it's just a concussion. I've played with concussions before. I would go out there and play.' So, it's almost like a 50-50 toss-up in the locker room. You know, should he play, shouldn't he play. It's really hard to say.
"I've been out there dinged up. The following week, got right back out there. You know, Ben practiced all week. . . . To find out that he's still having some headaches and not playing and it came down to doctor's didn't feel that they was gonna clear him. . . . It's hard to say, unless you're the person. . . . I've lied to a couple of doctors saying 'I'm straight, I feel good,' when I knew I'm really not straight. But I don't think guys really about the future when they're playing currently in the NFL. . . .
"Trust me, the players, they wanna go out there because these games, you don't get back. You're never gonna get this Baltimore-Pittsburgh game back."