four games in a row now there 53 in one after the Thai on
Sunday against the Lions the Steelers are unsure whether Ben
Roethlisberger who was a Saturday night scratch with
a cobra diagnosis
or TJ watt who has a hip injury and a knee injury will be able
to play on Sunday night on NBC against the Los Angeles
Chargers and also make a Fitzpatrick unlikely to play he
landed on the covid list of the positive test on Monday and
they make it sound easy if you're on vaccinated Route 10
days we know that if we didn't know before Aaron Rodgers we
know it now if you are vaccinated you generate a pair
of negative test 24 hours apart you can come back well I don't
think
anybody's come back within a week after testing positive
I may be wrong would be the first time this hour but I ate it. It
just doesn't happen and that's why it's funny because Jay
Glazer said something about that on Sunday on the fox
pregame show and
it freak people out and then some people who saw
tweet about a thought that he was saying that Ben wasn't
vaccination always being pragmatic he is vaccinated
right but you test positive on Saturday night and you have
another game and eight days chances are you ain't coming
back for that game
yeah I see exactly right Mike tennis players have gone out
obviously who are vaccinated have a breakthrough case none
have come back less than a week most have been at 10 days which
is the maximum they can be on there if they're vaccinated
almost every player
to a man has been out 10 days have been if you remember last
year he missed that one game this is if he can generate
those two negative test 24 hours apart remember he was
a close contact last year and he missed a week and he
came back the next week and you actually play the game we did
a Aaron Rodgers where he came back the day before they
activate them he didn't practice that week and he
played against the Bengals and he threw 333 yards and four
touchdowns played really well
so if he doesn't practice and some way he can get cleared on
Saturday which we don't believe that to be the case but if he
can then I think he can play and play pretty darn well
without having any practice this week and just
participating in
those meetings but they're preparing for Mason Rudolph
mites mama said that today we're preparing Mason Rudolph
as the starter just as the Packers did last week with
Jordan love what am I missing a killer game that I missed
I remember there was a time we played
last year were people like you know maybe he doesn't suck and
I'm sorry I understand he's an NFL quarterback and you deserve
and you earn and you get a certain amount of respect for
reaching that level but once you're there once you're on
that platform and
it's time to go perform either do or you don't and if you
don't we're going to point it out that's what we're here for
we're not just here to Lavish praise and there are plenty of
shows out there only do that weird to call it like
we see it why in the hell is Mason Rudolph still the number
to to Ben Roethlisberger I got who's thirty-nine-and-a-half
a guy who does not have a history of keeping himself in
the highest possible condition in fact when it was reported
earlier this year that he
kind of did a tb12 type of a cleanse he said no that's wrong
basically I'm still sitting around eating pork rinds and
watching bowling on TV I just don't get why you would entrust
such an important position the Eagles understand how important
backup quarterback is why
did the Steelers still have Mason Rudolph as their backup
I don't get it shrink
I was so surprised and so I'll see you soon when they didn't
go get a veteran quarterback now they have to wait Haskins
on the roster and it it's just like a jerk off maybe it's time
to see if in Roethlisberger camp like to see Dwayne
Haskins frankly I don't know how much worse he can be than
Mason Rudolph I just don't think much of Mason Rudolph
I think the Steelers should have figured out by now he's not
even a good backup much less the Hara parents to Ben
Roethlisberger and I
don't know what they're going to do a quarterback after this
year it's Dwayne Haskins is even a little bit in your plans
if you wonder even a little bit if he can be your quarterback
next year why not play him instead of Mason Rudolph this
week
if given that Ben Roethlisberger's probably not
going to play at night I don't get it I don't know what
the Steelers are doing and they certainly have a plan for
the future after Big Ben retires which we all believe this is
his last year
you know my Tom in a hell of a coach one of the best in
the NFL when the best ever frankly Kevin covert and excellent
general managers sometimes they have some personal blind spots
and I don't know if it's tinkering by Art Rooney who is
very
much involved in that team and never gets called out for it
I don't know what it is but every once in a while they'll do
something that just makes you say what in the hell are they
doing it's more glaring when it came to his set such a high
standard of the past 50 years does it is I've seen from them
in the fifty years I've been paying attention
to the Steelers I grew up 60 miles from Pittsburg I'm
sitting 100 miles from Heinz Field right now I am confused
and befuddled by the fact that they entrusted their backup
quarterback job to a guy that they have seen play enough over
the years to know
he's not the guy that's going to come in and when games for
you case in point the worst team in the league comes to
town we know Jared Goff doesn't like playing out in
the elements and they can't beat the lions with Mason Rudolph
stepping in
for Ben Roethlisberger