Retired Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has offered some insight on how recently fired offensive coordinator Matt Canada coached, at least with the future Hall of Famer.
Recapping the Steelers victory against the Cincinnati Bengals on his Footbahlin podcast with spence, Roethlisberger said Canada didn’t really coach him.
“I always worked closely with the (offensive) coordinator,” said Roethlisberger.
He was referring to Bruce Arians and other OCs he had over his 18 years.
“Even when I had a quarterback coach, whether Randy (Fichtner) was the quarterback coach and (Arians) or Ken Anderson and BA,” said Roethlisberger.
But with Canada it was different and he didn’t work closely with Roethlisberger.
“I didn’t feel that with Matt, even when he was my coordinator . . . it almost felt like Matt wanted to let the quarterback coach coach me or coach the quarterback,” added Roethlisberger. “That was the first time that I felt that I wasn’t working directly with the coordinator.”
Roethlisberger speculates that Canada may have been looser with him because he was 18 years already in the NFL.
He can’t cay for sure, but Roethlisberger says maybe that’s why Kenny Pickett did well on Sunday against the Bengals.
He threw the most yards all season with 278, was throwing to the middle of field and helped the Steelers get over 400 yards in a game for the first time in nearly 60 games.
“That’s maybe why Kenny feels more comfortable with Sully, maybe the same thing was going on where Matt was more removed, like ‘listen I’m the coordinator, I’ll coordinate, you work with Sully and deal with that’ so him and Sully probably have a great relationship I would assume because Sully is that kind of guy,” said Roethlisberger.
Eddie Faulkner is the team’s interim offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Mike Sullivan is calling the plays on gameday.