Is Ben Roethlisberger the most overrated QB in the league?

[Josh W]

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Insert Tommy Maddox into the QB spot and look how badly the Steelers look against the Jaguars. That just shows it takes an above average QB to win games for the Steelers. Im not suggesting Tommy Maddox was an above average QB but he was suppose to be a couple years ago.

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This is silly.

A.) Maddox was dinged up. Remember, when Roth went down the previous week, it wasn't Maddox who stepped in, it was Batch, because Maddox was hurt. Next week, Batch is #2 on the depth chart behind Roth because Maddox is still hurt.

B.) Jax is a good team. Maddox lost in OT. Roth is only 1-1 vs good teams this year, Maddox is barely 0-1. Is Roth better than a healthy Maddox? Yeah, a small amount, but not tons.

C.) Maddox didn't have the dispossal of Pitt's other best offensive weapon, Hines Ward. Roth always did.

Quite simply, Maddox's performance vs Jax w/o Ward wasn't really worse than Roth's vs NE two weeks prior (W/ Ward).

We can start throwing sample size into the picture, too. But right now, there is no reason (as in NONE) to believe that Roth is tons better than Maddox.

Josh