By any measure, the praise that Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert offered 17-year veteran quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in his remarks earlier today to members of the media couldn’t really be described in terms more glowing than lukewarm, when given the context of their history, and frankly, their increasingly hypothetical future.
The soon-to-be 39-year-old passer, Colbert acknowledged, has communicated to them clearly that he still intends to continue to play, but from the front office’s point of view, there are obstacles in the way before they can make that determination, due to the financial constraints under which they are set to operate.