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PFF Wonders If NFL Has Ever Seen ‘More Dissimilar’ QB-OC Pairing Than Roethlisberger, Canada

The Pittsburgh Steelers’ decision to move on from Randy Fichtner as offensive coordinator this offseason was somewhat of a surprise, largely due to their tendency to resist change, but moving on to Matt Canada certainly provides us with an interesting opportunity to see how two seemingly opposing forces can join together.

As his career has gone on and he has aged, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has increasingly preferred to line up out of the shotgun, to minimally use play action, and to avoid much motion. While he hasn’t commanded an offense yet at the NFL level, many of the systems he ran at the college level run contrary to those tendencies.