Jason Whitlock is a very large man. If he fell on me, I would probably suffer a fate worse than Mike Utley.
But blaming the offensive woes of the Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears on Ben Roethlisberger’s rookie success — well, I hope it’s tongue-in-cheek, because if it’s not, it’s quite unfair.
The Bills thought J.P. Losman was a better option than the much older, much more immobile Drew Bledsoe, so they gave him the ball. The Bengals did the same thing last year with Carson Palmer and finished 8-8, but that move is paying dividends now, yes?
As for the Bears, Rex Grossman was supposed to be the guy, but he got hurt again, so Lovie Smith had to hold his nose and pick either rookie Kyle Orton and sucky Chad Hutchinson. They even brought in Tim Couch and sent him back to the wonderful world of life insurance. Orton was the best option in Chicago. That’s not to say he’s particularly good, but what other options do the Bears have, save for hoping they can get a good QB in the draft?
(This is the part where Jason Whitlock threatens to sit on me if I don’t say something about Jeff George, but Whitlock’s argument that Vinny Testaverde never won squat in the NFL sure seems to apply just as much to his golden-armed man crush…)
Despite what a thousand Pittsburgh girls in “Ben’s Future Girlfriend” T-shirts would have you believe, the world does not revolve around Ben Roethlisberger. Hell, neither does the Steelers’ offense most of the time. Problems in Buffalo and Chicago are just that. Leave Ben out of it, Whitlock.
