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Dan Dierdorf Thinks Big Ben Is a STUD

Dec 16, 2007 – 5:50 PM
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Steelers fourth-year quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been banged up for most of his career. Obviously, face-planting into concrete sans helmet doesn't help, but neither does having five fat guys pretending to block for you.

I don't know if Pittsburgh offensive line wants to see Big Ben carted off on a stretcher or if they're just a really inept bunch, but whatever, it's got to be hard to watch if you're head coach Mike Tomlin. Or anybody in the Roethlisberger family.

The upside -- when Roethlisberger's not scraping himself off the turf -- is that you get see a handful of plays like the one above every week. The Jaguars front four just bum-rush the Steelers offensive line, and Roethlisberger somehow manages to find Willie Parker standing around watching the carnage. Parker turns it into a big gain, and nobody in the stadium was happier than CBS color analyst Dan Dierdorf: "Ben Roethlisberger, YOU ARE A STUD. YOU ARE A BIG, STRONG STUD."

Dierdorf will propose to Ben on bended knee at the halftime of next Week's Rams game. (Right after St. Louis retires Marshall Faulk's number. That shouldn't be awkward.)
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