[Redskins8588]

I think that Big Ben gets too much credit. People fail to see that he landed in the best situation that a young and talented QB could land in. Look at the Steelers team all-around, they had a very good WR group with Pro-Bowler Hines Ward, Burress, and Randle El.

Then he had two very big power-backs to hand off to in Jerome Bettis and Duce Staley, not to mention the o-line, which had like 1 or 2 pro-bowlers. Big Ben also had the #1 D to fall back on if he threw an INT. You could even see if you watched any steeler game, if Ben threw an Int it did not bother him because he knew how good the D was. I may be wrong but the D also supported like 2 or 3 pro-bowlers.

Also Big Ben had a very good special teams unit to give him a short field to work with.

I am not saying that Ben sucks, or that he is not a good young talented QB. Yeah the Steelers did have 16 straight victories, but not just do to Ben's QB play but rather than the whole team being a fundamentaly sound team at every level, offense, deffense and special teams. Ben did make very good choices and looked very good in during games, but like I mentioned he came in to a system allready established. Would the Steelers have won 16 straight had Maddox not been injured, I dont know, but something tells me that the Steelers still would have made the playoffs...