After the Pittsburgh Steelers lost on Sunday to the Green Bay Packers, the team’s former quarterback, Charlie Batch, who is now a postgame analyst for DVE Radio, Allegedly indicated that quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is now being shackled under new offensive coordinator Matt Canada when it comes to his ability to check out of certain plays. While I did not hear Batch’s comments, the notion that I get is that he was mostly referring to fourth down plays, two of which the offense had on Sunday against the Packers.
Probably due to the comments that Batch made after Sunday’s game, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin was asked during his Tuesday press conference to comment on how much freedom Roethlisberger has currently, and especially on fourth downs, when it comes to calling audibles at the line of scrimmage to switch up a play based on what he sees pre snap.