![]() Apparently, the full universe of people who have acquired amnesia regarding the early days of Roethlisberger’s career now include Roethlisberger himself. (As one former unnamed teammate opined regarding Ben, “ He a turd.”) As noted in Playmakers, it’s uncanny that the indiscretions of his youth have become entirely lost to history. There’s an entire chapter in Playmakers devoted to the redemption Roethlisberger experienced following his four-game suspension in 2010. There were more issues for Young Ben, including the motorcycle accident that (according to him) left him “ seconds, maybe a minute away from dying,” along with a reputation in the locker room for at times being a little surly and standoffish. Cowher publicly declared that his rookie quarterback had zero fractures of the metatarsal bones. He claimed that he played with multiple broken toes. He became known for (or at least suspected of) embellishing and/or fabricating injuries, starting with the aftermath of the 2004 AFC Championship. Some will also see Roethlisberger’s comments are ironic, given that he was at times an unpopular, me-first presence during the early years of his career. With Brown, Tomlin somehow managed to do it for nearly a decade. ![]() Other coaches in the NFL deeply respect Tomlin’s ability to steer players who may be inclined to cause trouble away from doing so. Indeed, we’ve heard for years that players who weren’t known to be problems in Pittsburgh at times go elsewhere and create internal havoc. What may look like coddling is more like defusing (or at least delaying) a ticking time bomb. The other way to put it is that Tomlin knows how to handle potentially problematic players, in order to speak to their better angels. We sort of already know that he does, at least with great ones like Antonio Brown. It’s fair to wonder whether Roethlisberger is saying that Tomlin coddles players. Mike Tomlin coached Roethlisberger for 15 NFL seasons. Hoeppner coached Roethlisberger for four years. They’re coddled at a young age because college coaches need them to win, too. Now, this new NIL stuff, which is unbelievable. It turned from a team-first to a me-type attitude. “I might be standing on a soapbox a little bit, but that’s my biggest takeaway from when I started to the end. Now, it’s about me and this, that and the other. Maybe it’s because I got spoiled when I came in. “I feel like the people have changed in a sense. “I feel like the game has changed,” Roethlisberger said on that point. The Hollywood film Frankenstein (1931), with Boris Karloff as the monster, was based as much on The Golem as on Shelley’s novel. Two German films, The Golem (1914) and Homunculus (1916), dealt with a similar theme derived from Jewish folklore. ( Don’t tell Mendenhall it was a fumble.) Roethlisberger also lamented the fact that the Steelers won only three postseason games after the Super Bowl that capped the 2010 season. The first Frankenstein film was produced by Thomas Edison in 1910. Instead, Roethlisberger lamented the team’s loss in Super Bowl XLV, playing the what-if game with center Maurkice Pouncey’s ankle injury and running back Rashard Mendenhall’s fumble. (Hey, if no one ever mentions it, it never happened, right?) The most obvious area for potential reflection and remorse was not mentioned, either by Roethlisberger or by Ron Cook, who wrote the article.
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