The two best quarterbacks in Steelers history haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, and Ben Roethlisberger’s latest disagreement with Terry Bradshaw comes at his own expense.
In this case, Roethlisberger won’t take a compliment from Bradshaw. The current Steelers quarterback told ESPN.com that Tom Brady is the NFL’s best quarterback a day after Bradshaw said that Roethlisberger was the best in the league.
“Tom’s the greatest in the world, and I mean that,” Roethlisberger said.
Bradshaw, a four-time Super Bowl winner and current FOX analyst, said that Roethlisberger could have been the MVP last year if he didn’t miss four games with injuries. Roethlisberger did lead the NFL with 328.2 passing yards per game, but Brady led the league with 36 touchdown passes and a 1.1 percent interception rate.
Steelers fans might not want to hear that Roethlisberger’s career interception percentage of 2.7 is higher than that of Neil O’Donnell. Even though O’Donnell threw two infamous interceptions in Super Bowl XXX, he was intercepted only 2.1 percent of the time in his career as well as his five years with the Steelers.
There’s no debate that Roethlisberger is a better quarterback than O’Donnell ever was, and the gap between the two is miles wider than it is between Roethlisberger and Brady.
Perhaps Roethlisberger can narrow the latter gap a little when Brady and the Patriots visit the Steelers in Week 7.
