I am backed up today in the real world so I will have to postpone the NFL Smorgasbord for tomorrow...but I leave you with this article from KC Joyner (aka The Football Scientist) showing how truly great Ben Roethlisberger has been. I am not sure I would put him on Brady's level, as Joyner does, but I have been saying for years he is the third best quarterback in the league.
http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/insider/columns/story?columnist=joyner_kc&id=6011130
You need an ESPN Insider account to read the article but if you don't have an insider account, here is a snippet:
"In other words, Roethlisberger is piloting a high-risk/high-reward offense. A solid bad decision rate for a quarterback of that nature would be in the 2.5-to-3 percent range and Roethlisberger's 2.0 percent total is well below that. Brady's 1.3 percent mark is just as superb (a 2.0 percent total is considered good for dink/dunk offenses) but when this context is applied, it is clear that his lead in this metric is fairly negligible at best.
And that's the story with pretty much any measurement one can come up with to compare Roethlisberger and Brady both for this season and their careers. The biggest exception to this might be that Brady has three Super Bowl rings to Roethlisberger's two, but the second-biggest exception is that Roethlisberger is 4½ years younger -- he has a lot more time to make up the title gap than Brady has to extend it."
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