BEN DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT

[bengaldee]

profootballtalk.com

Okay, we've now seen several images of stealers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger since he took of the KISS makeup, and we're convinced that something is wrong with his right eye.

Apart from lingering blood in the white stuff next to the iris, his eyes don't line up like they used to. Though we're not opthamologists or optometrists -- and we haven't stayed in a Holiday Inn Express lately -- we've got a feeling that the ability to see a football field while wearing a helmet and standing in the middle of a swarm of large men with bad intentions might depend on whether the quarterbacks eyes aren't messed up in some way.

Peripheral vision, in our view, is the key. If Big Ben has lost any of the peripheral vision in his right eye, that's a problem. Though for a right-handed quarterback the notion is that the left side is more critical because it's the "blind side," the last time we checked quarterbacks tend to look straight down the field when setting up to throw. In Roethsliberger's case, any inability to see what might be coming toward the side of the body in which the ball is held could be a big problem.

The official (and unofficial) story remains that no one knows whether, when, and how well Roethlisberger will be able to play. But even though Big Ben looks pretty good for a guy who left a face print on a windshield last month, we won't believe that he's in football shape until we see it with our own eyes.


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