Coach Mike Tomlin hopes QB Big Ben is back in Pittsburgh Steelers versus Baltimore Ravens – NFL News
The Pittsburgh Steelers are desperate to see even a miraculous return of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger while in the meantime they have to rely on 37-year-old Charlie Batch as their offence leader.
Yet Batch thinks that the Steelers are not that reliant on Big Ben that they cannot pull off a win, although in reality they have lost two straight without him in the side.
Batch said:
"I wouldn't necessarily say that. There's a lot of guys on this team that are capable of making plays. But for whatever reason we haven't been able to get into the end zone. And I think right now we're going to figure out a way to do that and I don't think
anybody in this locker room thinks another way."
His wisdom also falls opposite to commentators’ view that the team cannot win without Ben in the side. The team’s loss against the Cleveland Browns is very much evident to it. The Browns are a side who had only a pair of victories before the Steelers’ game
but thrashed them conveniently while Batch and other players tried their best to put up some resistance.
Coach Mike Tomlin a day earlier said that they have asked Roethlisberger to start throwing football again. The doctors have given him three weeks time to recover from a shoulder and rib injury but the team has set an ambitious hope he does so in a pair of
weeks.
Although the player acknowledged his throwing arm is perfectly all right, the dislocated rib causes a problem for him. Therefore, he has a problem in the movement of the arm, but the coach has presented an encouraging picture after Ben’s throws. He said
they will review his situation once again later in the week to try to get him included him in the game against the Baltimore Ravens.
The Steelers are in a must-win situation now if they want to stay intact on the course to playoffs. The Cincinnati Bengals, their closest rivals in the American Football Conference (AFC) North, are doing far better than them and if the Steelers do not win
a couple of more games, they will more likely be out of playoff contention.
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