Dilly Dilly!


Ben threw for 299 yards and 4 touchdowns and the Steelers are now 8-2 heading into Thanksgiving week.

Play of the Game:

On his third touchdown of the night, Antonio Brown caught and pinned the football to his helmet for a 10-yard touchdown to make it a 37-17 lead with 12:12 remaining in the game.


Quotes of the Game:

“Ben did a great job of giving me a chance. I don’t know how I came down with it. We’re grateful for the win today. We clicked a lot and made some big plays.” — Antonio Brown on the ‘helmet play’.

“He didn’t call anyone out, he called all of us out. Linemen. Receivers. Himself. Running backs. Purely positive. It was a challenge. He challenged us. The guys responded.” — David DeCastro on Ben’s ‘pep talk’ at half time.

Stats of the Game:

Big Ben not only passed Philip Rivers for 8th all-time in pass completions tonight, but he also became the 9th quarterback in NFL history with 4,000 pass completions.


And last, but not least, Tweet of the Game:





You can watch & listen to Ben’s post-game interview here.

“Honestly, what’s our record? What was the final score? Those are the only things that matter. I couldn’t tell you what I was for what, I know I threw an interception, I know I had two touchdowns, that’s all I know. But I know we won the game, I know where our record is and I know that’s the most important thing.”

Recap from Ben’s show this morning on 93.7 The Fan:

Another game on the road against a team under .500 and another game that the Steelers easily could have lost, but they didn’t and they beat the Colts 20-17 on Sunday.

Ben Roethlisberger joined us on The #1 Cochran Ben Roethlisberger Show to talk about winning ugly and how it was good to come out with a win it that situation as opposed to what happened when they went into Chicago earlier this year. Ben was asked about Tomlin pointing out the negatives from the game despite getting a win.

“I think it’s the coach’s job to acknowledge those downfalls, acknowledge the win, but as a coach, he should point out the negative things that happen. The FAN, the media, they should only care about the win. They’re not coaching us, right? They’re the ones that should be happy we won the game. The coach’s job is to coach us and preach on the negatives and figure out how we can be better so we don’t make those negative things again, so yes, that’s his job. It’s one of those things, ‘Hey guys, you know you did this wrong, this wrong, this wrong, this wrong, you won, good job.”

Ben also addressed this moment in the game where offensive coordinator Todd Haley wasn’t too happy with him as they took a delay of game penalty when going for two.

“That’s nothing new, him screaming at me during games, you guys don’t ever see it. I don’t know if he was actually yelling at me through the headset because I didn’t hear that, but I did look over to the sideline and he was definitely screaming…I know there was some coach-to-coach arguing, him hollering, all kinds of things, but at the time, you move on, you can’t really get caught up in that stuff.”

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From Bob Labriola at Steelers.com:

Roethlisberger was more than a facilitator when his team needed him to be.

Earlier this week, quarterbacks coach Randy Fichtner referred to the role Ben Roethlisberger has assumed is that of a point guard in basketball, with the implication being that he is now a distributor of the ball. There were times today against the Colts when Roethlisberger was distributing the ball, but there were other times, particularly in the second half, when he looked like the guy he was a decade ago. Shrugging off tacklers, moving around in the pocket, extending the play until he could find someone to get the ball to.

Which is why the Steelers came back from a 17-3 deficit to score 17 unanswered points in the final quarter-and-a-half to defeat the Colts, 20-17, at Lucas Oil Field.

Roethlisberger is the Steelers Digest Player of the Week.

As the Colts were building that 17-3 lead through the first couple of minutes of the second half, Roethlisberger completed 7-of-15 for 72 yards, with no touchdowns, one interception, and a rating of 33.2. He also was sacked once. In the second half, he completed 12-of-16 (75 percent) for 164 yards, with two touchdowns, no interceptions, and a rating of 146.9. He was not sacked in the second half, but that’s not to say there weren’t occasions where he was under some pressure, and also his those statistics don’t reflect the two-point conversion pass he completed to Martavis Bryant from the 7-yard line that tied the game, 17-17, with 11:52 remaining in the fourth quarter.


You can read more about his selection here.

Let’s start with something a bit different…


The game recap in pictures and tweets from Steelers fans:






















You can watch Ben’s post-game press conference here.



And from Jeremy Fowler, at ESPN.com:

“Steelers wake up from Indy nightmares with vintage Ben Roethlisberger”

Scrambling and bracing for a hit, Ben Roethlisberger stepped up and floated a pretty, off-balance touch pass to Antonio Brown between two defenders. Brown whipped his way across the field for 32 yards and into field goal range in the final seconds.

Game sealed for the Pittsburgh Steelers, with Chris Boswell connecting from 33 yards as time expired. Roethlisberger looked like Big Ben, at least for a moment, adding a 69-yard game-winning scoring drive to his personal record books.

Nothing else about Sunday’s performance was that pretty. Much of it was pretty ghastly, actually. But the Steelers showed serious resolve with a 20-17 win over the Indianapolis Colts, overcoming a 14-point deficit for the third time since last season, an NFL record.

“When AB and I start making plays, it’s pretty fun,” said Roethlisberger, who finished 19-of-31 for 236 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. “I just have to get him the ball and he does the rest.”


You can read more here.



Radio Programming Note:

The Ben Roethlisberger Show will be on 93.7 The Fan TOMORROW (Monday, November 13th) at 11am.

Salute to our military!! Love you all and thank you so much for your service!! — Ben