Big Ben had a "severe" setback

Deus Irae said:

Dilfer mentioned that he'd had the same injury while he played. He called it an injury that heals by March.

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It took Brady only 7 days between the AFCCG and SB 36.

I think Big Ben is Favreing it.

shmessy said:

It took Brady only 7 days between the AFCCG and SB 36.

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Different injuries heal at different rates.

shmessy said:

It took Brady only 7 days between the AFCCG and SB 36.

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Even though they are different types of sprains, Brady can play on a sprained ankle far easier than Roethlisberger. Ben relies on moving around in and out of the pocket to make plays. Brady is pretty stationary and only slides to avoid the rush. A flat-footed Roethlisberger is a huge decline in talent as we have seen the last few weeks.

Re Pitt/Den, the Steelers have been scoring below 17/game lately, and that may continue with The drama queen's play lately. The game will be dependent on TO's, if Denver doesn't turn the ball over and Pitts makes a TO or two Denver can win.

I can't see it getting any better ducking Dumervil and Miller. Hopefully he get's to run around allot in victory or defeet.......

Players that give minute by minute injury updates really get on my nerves. The only reason I can think of to do that is to have an excuse for sucking!

Roethlisberger interviewed today on ESPN claiming that "he's a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10.."

He then went on to state that he felt fine going into last week's game vs CLE, and that staff trainers and doctors tell him that this current setback will set him back "one week."

The only thing we really know from this drama queen is that he's not 100%, but that's about it. The rest is just guessing.

After all, we are talking about the guy that told all the media who would listen on TWO separate occasions that he had broken body parts, only to be contradicted by the actual head coach and training staff themselves, who said that there weren't any breaks.

Let's all hope like hell that Dumerville and Von Miller beat him to a pulp, and push that "one week" setback to a couple/few more. It's obviously very key to facing a guy like Roethlisberger when he can't effectively scramble and extend the play. That would bode very well for our team.

shmessy said:

It took Brady only 7 days between the AFCCG and SB 36.

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Tom Brady sprained his ankle...Big Ben has a high ankle sprain. Two completely different injuries.

They take a good months rest...all your tendons and ligaments pass through that area, it can lead to issues with tendinitis (like what Brady suffered with in his bruised elbow) and the swelling takes weeks to fully go away...

...this is all ona months full rest imo.

Big Ben hasn't been resting and, whilst I admire a QB who can take the bumps and bruises and get on with it, this was plain stupid! This injury will plague his mobility all the way to the Superbowl now. They should have rested him when they could. Now Mendenhall is down, they can't really trust putting extra load on their Running Back corps either.

Ben's ankle will be fine; Tim Tebow is praying for Ben to have a full recovery.

Talk about a couple of drama queens!

Roger Goodell should have the game decided by a duel between Roethlisberger and Tebow using histrionics at ten paces.

shmessy said:

It took Brady only 7 days between the AFCCG and SB 36.

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In 2003, in the season finale against the Bills, Lawyer Milloy came in on a blatant late hit and speared Brady's knee with his helmet, partially tearing his MCL.

After the Pats won the SB, the rumour was that if they did not have a bi-week, the injury was so bad that Brady would have missed a game. (edit: Obviously Brady would need to be in pretty bad shape to even suggest that somebody like him would miss a game...)

Didn't hear ANYTHING in the media about this until the trophy was secured. :rocker:

I find it hard to call Big Ben a prima donna. I obviously hate him, but that guy is so freaking tough. Or that he's just such a big dumb brick that he doesn't feel the pain lol. Either way, he does just about whatever it takes to step back on that field, and that's one thing (maybe the only thing) that I applaud him for.

drew4008 said:

I find it hard to call Big Ben a prima donna. I obviously hate him, but that guy is so freaking tough. Or that he's just such a big dumb brick that he doesn't feel the pain lol. Either way, he does just about whatever it takes to step back on that field, and that's one thing (maybe the only thing) that I applaud him for.

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And he has made absolutely damn sure that you knew about every single one of those heroic efforts in technicolor.

Don't fall for it!

drew4008 said:

I find it hard to call Big Ben a prima donna. I obviously hate him, but that guy is so freaking tough. Or that he's just such a big dumb brick that he doesn't feel the pain lol. Either way, he does just about whatever it takes to step back on that field, and that's one thing (maybe the only thing) that I applaud him for.

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He's definitely tougher than, say, me or most of the other posters here, it's just the drama that goes with it. Why go all out telling the media you're at 50%? It's like he wants to make sure all the networks and media get the storyline right ... the heroic effort and all. He can't really lose with that storyline, can he? As other posters have pointed out, Brady keeps this stuff to himself. We may never know how badly he was beat up before SB42 (remember when he magically appeared on the stage at Foxborough before the team left? No one saw him walk to or from the stage). It seems like every year you hear after the fact he was playing with broken fingers or broken ribs or something else. No excuses, just football; that's toughness.

What kills me is the perception that Ben is this tough SOB who takes a beating and keeps on trucking while eveyone thinks Brady is a soft ninny. It takes a covert op and a hostage situation to unearth any sort of injury brady has, but Ben is always limping around or getting horizontal when a D-lineman touches him. Whenever there's a scrap, Ben runs and hides and lets his line do the fighting. Brady will get in a player's face, no matter who it is. Suggs, Polamalu, whomever.

Uncle Rico said:

He's definitely tougher than, say, me or most of the other posters here, it's just the drama that goes with it. Why go all out telling the media you're at 50%?

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He's answering questions. Not every team considers the injury report to be on par with the list of nuclear weapons.

Deus Irae said:

He's answering questions. Not every team considers the injury report to be on par with the list of nuclear weapons.

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Please. Choice. He's douchebag through and through. Choice.

Clonamery said:

Please. Choice. He's douchebag through and through. Choice.

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What does that have to do with anything at all? Not all teams consider injuries to be state secrets. It doesn't make the players who talk about the injuries anything less than those who don't.

Deus Irae said:

What does that have to do with anything at all? Not all teams consider injuries to be state secrets. It doesn't make the players who talk about the injuries anything less than those who don't.

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Sure it does. It makes them wise.

Deus Irae said:

What does that have to do with anything at all? Not all teams consider injuries to be state secrets. It doesn't make the players who talk about the injuries anything less than those who don't.

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Yes, it does. Big tough Ben Roethlisberger, who has body guards block doors to women's bathrooms while he has his way with college girls, is painting this picture of how hurt he is and how he is such a courageous teammate for going out there with injuries. Cut me a break, Ben.

Everybody is beaten up at this time of year. This guys is a SB champion QB so that's his peer group. You never heard Montana or Brady or Bradshaw or Steve Young or Troy Aikman or Johnny Unitas hit the airwaves the way this guy does looking for public sympathy or acclaim for playing hurt.

Ben can choose to discuss his injuries or not. Let the team, his coach and the injury report do that for him.

I am rooting like mad for Denver to shut these guys down and come to Foxboro in two weeks.