Should Big Ben be mentioned in the same breath as Brady and (Peyton) Manning?

Saw this graphic on Instagram and it really got me thinking.  Is Big Ben underrated?  With the exception of 2012 where that shit stain Joe Flacco managed to win a Super Bowl in a contract year, Brady, Manning and Roethlisberger have monopolized AFC super bowl appearances since 2003.

Before I go on, I'm a Steelers fan, but I'm looking at this objectively.  The last decade plus the rivalry was Manning - Brady.  Football is a team game with 11 guys on the field, so more often than not, QBs get more credit than they should when they win, and more blame than they should when they lose.  One thing great quarterbacks do though, is elevate the play of their receivers.  I would make the argument that Big Ben has done that on the level of Manning and Brady.

Sure Manning got to start his career with Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne, but he also made guys like Austin Collie, Pierre Garcon, Dallas Clark, and Jacob Tamme fantasy relevant.

Brady won Super Bowls in 2003 and 2004 with assclowns such as David Givens, Deon Branch, David Patten and Troy Brown.  That feat to this day is still greater than anything else Brady has accomplished.  Those receivers SUCK, yet are all 2x Super Bowl Champs.  They're to receivers what Trent Dilfer is to being called a "Super Bowl winning QB"

It was really impressive to see Brady's stats go off the charts when he had Randy Moss and Wes Welker to throw to.  But Brady is the constant.  Aaron Hernandez went and decided to murder two people and ruin the Pats two-TE sets?  No problem, the Pats kept winning without him.

Big Ben has played with some stars like Hines Ward and Plaxico Burress.  But he also made guys like Antwaan Randle El, Santonio Holmes, and Mike Wallace look good.  Randle El left for the Redskins and didn't do much, Santonio Holmes was banished to the Jets and never heard from again, and Wallace was the best deep threat in the league when Big Ben was his quarterback, but since then became a journeyman WR playing for Miami, Minnesota, and now fucking Baltimore.

So should Big Ben be mentioned in the same breath as Brady and Manning?  I think so.  Roethlisberger doesn't have the Super Bowl count Brady does, nor has he stuffed the regular season stat sheet like Manning, but he's been the center piece of a franchise that is a threat in the playoffs nearly every year, and like Brady, the cast around him changes, but he's the constant.

Maybe he doesn't get the same amount of credit because he doesn't have a huge fucking forehead and enjoy eating drunk college kid pizza:

Maybe it's because he's not a fucking dreamboat that wears UGGS:

Bottom line is this: fair or not, quarterbacks are judged by Super Bowls.  If he gets his 3rd this year, he's on the Mount Rushmore of QBs for this era.  He falls short, he's relegated to the good but not great category (after all, he'll only have one more Super Bowl ring than Joe fucking Flacco).