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Big Ben Was Going Over Plays On The Sideline With....The Team Doctor?

My sister and I noticed this while watching the game live and recognized Doc from Big Ben's documentary last year. We both did a double take and asked "wait…isn't that the team doctor?" Only to be confirmed by former Steeler Mike Wallace on Twitter. 

I know Big Ben is very close with Dr. Bradley. Helped him big time through his elbow surgery and rehab in 2019. He's been the Steelers team surgeon for over 30 years now so he's been around Ben for over half of his time as the lead doc. Apparently Big Ben got hit low on the deep ball to Diontae that Johnson dropped right before this sequence with Dr. Bradley. Maybe he was showing him back film of that to see if there should be any concern? Maybe he was that desperate to find out what was wrong with the Steelers offense in the first half that he literally went to a doctor for the diagnosis. Whatever it was it started working after the first half. 

Steelers 1st half stats: 19 plays, 93 yards, 3 points

Steelers 2nd half stats: 46 plays, 229 yards, 17 points

Perhaps Doc Bradley should have even more say in the offense.