If you’re a quarterback and you don’t have a close relationship with your offensive linemen, then you’re probably doing something wrong. Pretty much literally, you’re trusting your health and safety to the notion of the five men in front of you being competent at their jobs, so you want to give them every reason to want to keep you upright.
That’s a lesson that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback was able to learn very early on in his career. He has always loved his offensive linemen—frankly, even when they weren’t any good. He gave them a shoutout from a Super Bowl podium a dozen years ago in a year in which they were heavily criticized for their performance, saying, ‘who’s laughing now?