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Roethlisberger: Brady 'didn't look like he wanted to be out there' during loss
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports

Ben Roethlisberger on Tom Brady's loss to Steelers: 'It didn't look like he wanted to be out there'

The Steelers shocked the NFL world on Sunday when they defeated the highly-touted Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Pittsburgh has been one of the league's worst teams this season and can't find a starting quarterback while the Bucs have likely the best to ever play the game in Tom Brady. So it is safe to say this was a surprising outcome. 

The legend threw for only 243 yards and one touchdown against a depleted Steelers defense missing their leaders T.J. Watt and Minkah Fitzpatrick. Following the game, former Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger shared his thoughts on Brady's poor performance. 

"I was up there just happy as can be watching the game. This is just my opinion: Tom is the greatest. The Super Bowl rings show it," Roethlisberger said. "It didn't look like he wanted to be out there. Maybe it was the pressure, and he was getting hit and whatever was going on. At one point I looked down there and said, there's no way he's enjoying this. No way. I was enjoying being up there watching the game. It just didn't look fun for him."

The most surprising factor was that Brady was outplayed by the Steelers QB. That man was Mitch Trubisky, who has played very poorly to start the season and had already lost his job to Kenny Pickett. Trubisky threw for 144 yards and one touchdown in limited play after coming in for an injured Pickett. 

Brady is supposedly impossible to rattle. Many defenses have tried and many defenses have failed as the 44-year-old has always found a way to overcome adversity, get back up and come out on top. Against Pittsburgh, however, Brady and the Bucs were held without a touchdown until late in the fourth quarter and did not even get a chance for another classic Brady game-winning drive. 

"When a defense gets after you, sometimes your anger and your disgust for things happen because the other team is affecting you," Roethlisberger said. "Not because it's you. But yeah, it just looked like a different Tom."

Brady skipped the team walkthrough on Saturday to attend Patriots owner Robert Kraft's wedding. Did that have anything to do with his struggles on the field? At least one former player seemed to think so. 

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