If Sunday night’s game is to be Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger’s last he will ever play, then it’s fair to say that the team did not provide him with the send-off that he deserves. While not dismissing his own level of play, there was very little that anybody did around him that was of particular benefit to the pursuit of winning.
Fingers could be pointed all over the place, but it certainly must be said that Roethlisberger’s skill-position players, his pass targets, left a lot on the table. That goes especially for his top two targets on the season, wide receivers Diontae Johnson and Chase Claypool, the former with at least a couple of drops and the latter simply not making plays he should be making.