Ben joined The Cook and Poni Show on Sportsradio 93.7 The Fan for the #1 Cochran Ben Roethlisberger Show which airs every Tuesday morning at 11 a.m. during the Steelers season:

He told the guys how everything feels better this week after a very impressive performance this past Sunday night in a 37-19 win over the Carolina Panthers to improve to (2-1) on the season.

“The film yesterday, the meetings yesterday, everything is a little better after a win like that.”

Ben said he talked to the team before the Baltimore Ravens game last Thursday talking about how the worlds eyes would all be on that game and how they had a chance to put on a show before the national audience but that resulted in an embarrassing loss but he told the team they had a chance to erase that this past week again on the national stage.

“I told them that we have an opportunity to play Sunday night with everyone watching to redeem ourselves. I thought we did a good job of going out and redeeming ourselves on national TV.”

They did for sure and it was mostly done with an impressive ground attack that saw both running backs Le’Veon Bell and LeGarrette Blount rush for over 100 yards.

The biggest was an 81-yard-run from Bell and a 50 yd run from Blount both setting up short touchdowns.

Ben said they saw on film that the Panthers would take away the deep throws so they were going to have to run the ball and hit them with short throws.

“We knew going in that is what we were going to get and we had to take advantage of that. We ran the ball better than we had in probably 20-some years.”

Bell finished the game with 147 yards on 21 carries while Blount added 118 yards on just 10 carries.

“You got to see exactly, I think, what the off season hope was with these two guys. These two are the two headed monster and the third guy hopefully getting back Dri Archer this week will even add another and different element to the run game.”

He also talked about how it was a great win but it came at a huge cost with the […]

…comes from Steelers fan Kayla Rae who was in attendance at last night’s game against the Carolina Panthers, and asks:

From Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

It was a game the Steelers celebrated the return of some old, old friends.

Their eight-quarter drought of touchdowns ended in a rainstorm of four in the second half. They forced their first two turnovers this season. And they produced two 100-yard rushers in one game for the first time in 28 years.

It all added up to a runaway 37-19 victory against the favored Carolina Panthers Sunday night at Bank of America Stadium that left them with a 2-1 record.

“This is a big win for us,” said quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who threw two 7-yard touchdown passes to Antonio Brown, was sacked just once and ran the no-huddle offense as well as they draw it up, mixing the run and the pass. He completed 22 of 30 passes for 196 yards with no interceptions and was sacked just once.

“This is a good Steelers football game — physical, offense, defense and special teams.”

It was a costly victory, though, as they lost three defensive starters — Ike Taylor to a broken right forearm and linebackers Jarvis Jones (right wrist) and Ryan Shazier (right knee). Coach Mike Tomlin referred to the injuries as “significant.”

Le’Veon Bell rushed for 147 yards and LeGarrette Blount added 118 and a touchdown as the Steelers rampaged over Carolina’s defense for 264 yards rushing and 454 total.

Bell ripped off an 81-yard run and said the “hole was probably the biggest hole I had in my whole career.”

“That’s awesome,” Roethlisberger said of the twin 100-yard rushers, not seen in black and gold since 1986 when Walter Abercrombie and Earnest Jackson did it. “I’m sure Steelers fans back home are going crazy.”

Roethlisberger said they knew Carolina would try to take away the deep pass and praised an offensive line that blew the Panthers off the ball and protected him when he dropped back to pass.

“It shows what we can do … We knew running the ball was going to be critical,” Roethlisberger said.


You can read more here.

You can watch the video of Ben’s post-game interview here.

And you can check out some game photos here.

Celebrating the passionate fans of Steeler Nation Mexico!


¡Viva Ben, viva el No. 7!

Los aficionados de los Steelers en México usan la camisa de Ben con orgullo, dedicación y pasión!


Regios de Acero makes another appearance on Ben’s website!

“We are a Steelers fan club located at Monterrey, México. Let´s wave our terrible towels! ¡Agitemos las toallas terribles!

Please tell Ben that we send him best wishes and good luck for this season, we will be here supporting him during all games, and we will be in Atlanta too this December.

Behind us one of the Steel furnace of the old steel factory…actually it is now a public park called, ‘parque fundidora’.”— Roger Saucedo

You can follow Regios de Acero on Twitter (@regiosdacero) and Facebook!




Our fans group is STEELERS Black & Yellow and it’s formed by 2 cities (Saltillo and Monclova), from the state of Coahuila, Mexico.

How did it start?

In Saltillo, Coahuila 2007 Mike Gomez & I (Enrique Hernández) met when Mike went to the Cyber Coffee where I used work, he saw my cap and my terrible towel and he asked me about my passion for the STEELERS.

Among the time we started a friendship that over the years became what is now STEELERS BLACK & YELLOW.

We start it with a fans group around 20 members. Then Mike went to Monclova. With the support of Eduardo Abrego and David Gomez start this group in this city.

Few years ago we met other fans groups like Regios de Acero, Steelers Family & Steelers Mexico.

This year in the last Mexico Training Camp all of us decided follow the Regio de Acero’s idea (your 3rd annual photo) and the last Sunday we took our 1st annual photo STEELERS Fans in more than 14 cities of our nation.

STEELERS Black & Yellow organized the photo in Saltillo and Monclova with an attendance of over 265 people.

Today:

Every time more people join us…Now 7 years after, the fans club STEELERS Black & Yellow has around 500 persons joined for just one reason “PITTSBURGH STEELERS”.

Most of us have been participating in various activities related to the STEELERS like a Training Camps, signing autographs, travel to games, learning, playing, living, enjoying every one of his matches and […]

…is from Coach Tomlin!

Today, Ben announced the second grant of the 2014-15 season from The Ben Roethlisberger Foundation at The Giving Back Fund.

“We are honored to receive this grant from The Ben Roethlisberger Foundation. This grant will allow us to purchase another K-9 dog trained in narcotics so that we continue to make progress in the fight against drugs in our community.” — Chief Charles Barranco, Aiken Public Safety Department.

The Foundation will be distributing a grant to the Aiken Department of Public Safety in South Carolina, just two hours from Charlotte, North Carolina, where the Steelers will play the Carolina Panthers this Sunday evening.

The Aiken Department of Public Safety will apply the grant funds to the purchase and training of a new dog trained to find narcotics.

During the 2014-15 NFL season, Ben’s foundation will be distributing grants to K-9 units of police and fire departments in the cities and surrounding communities of each regular season away game for the Steelers. His foundation will also distribute several grants to the Pittsburgh area and will consider a grant to a non-NFL market city in the United States for each playoff game in which the Steelers compete.

This marks the eighth season that Ben’s foundation has distributed grants to K-9 units. The Foundation distributed $157,600 in grants to K-9 units around the country during the 2013 NFL season and has distributed in excess of $1.2 million since 2007.


You can learn more about Ben’s foundation here.

You can also check out some great photos here.