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Tomlin Transcript
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Mike Tomlin likes the health of his Steelers, but he particularly likes the fact that his team's playing a significant game this week in Baltimore.
Mike Tomlin, coach, Pittsburgh Steelers (http://pit.scout.com/) Good afternoon. Quick assessment of the Buffalo game, there were a couple of things that stood out to me when reviewing the tape. I thought we had critical playmaking at critical times, and really in all three phases. Whether you look at Ben [Roethlisberger]’s scramble on third down – I thought it was a significant, uplifting play for our football team – but just our third-down playmaking in general, I thought it was a high level for the better part of the game in critical moments. I thought we delivered necessary plays defensively. Troy [Polamalu]’s interception in the red area was a critical play, forcing them to kick a field goal after Rashard [Mendenhall] fumbled when we gave them an extremely short field. What the defense was able to do in overtime, under the circumstances given that the initial kickoff return went to midfield. We were fighting an uphill battle from a field-position standpoint for the better part of overtime. I thought our defense did a nice job of defending the blades of grass that we had to defend. And of course our special teams, Shaun [Suisham] banged four kicks for us. Daniel [Sepulveda] had a significant punt out of our end zone of course that really changed the complexion of the overtime period. I thought we had significant playmaking in all three phases. I liked the way that our team didn’t blink in the face of adversity. It was another positive. There was a lot of adversity, some trying times in that football game.
Negatively speaking, some of the adversity of course was self-induced, as is always the case in football. I thought the turnover jump-started them, and that’s just how it is. I thought we were highly penalized. We can’t be as penalized as we’ve been – not only in that game but in the last two weeks – and think we’re going to be successful on the road against a good Baltimore Ravens (http://bal.scout.com/) team.
From an injury standpoint, Antonio Brown (http://pit.scout.com/a.z?s=68&p=8&c=1&nid=4937116) worked out this morning. He had a really good workout. We’re optimistic about this guy being able to participate in the early portions and really, fully participate this week. Nick Eason (http://pit.scout.com/a.z?s=68&p=8&c=1&nid=4892590) looks to be pretty good. He might be limited somewhat in the initial part of the week. The same thing can be said of Bryant McFadden (http://pit.scout.com/a.z?s=68&p=8&c=1&nid=4937082), but of course when you’re dealing with a hamstring it could be a little more problematic. But he’s slated to participate. Same thing could be said with Ben with his foot sprain. He might be limited somewhat tomorrow.
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Mike Tomlin likes the health of his Steelers, but he particularly likes the fact that his team's playing a significant game this week in Baltimore.
Mike Tomlin, coach, Pittsburgh Steelers (http://pit.scout.com/) Good afternoon. Quick assessment of the Buffalo game, there were a couple of things that stood out to me when reviewing the tape. I thought we had critical playmaking at critical times, and really in all three phases. Whether you look at Ben [Roethlisberger]’s scramble on third down – I thought it was a significant, uplifting play for our football team – but just our third-down playmaking in general, I thought it was a high level for the better part of the game in critical moments. I thought we delivered necessary plays defensively. Troy [Polamalu]’s interception in the red area was a critical play, forcing them to kick a field goal after Rashard [Mendenhall] fumbled when we gave them an extremely short field. What the defense was able to do in overtime, under the circumstances given that the initial kickoff return went to midfield. We were fighting an uphill battle from a field-position standpoint for the better part of overtime. I thought our defense did a nice job of defending the blades of grass that we had to defend. And of course our special teams, Shaun [Suisham] banged four kicks for us. Daniel [Sepulveda] had a significant punt out of our end zone of course that really changed the complexion of the overtime period. I thought we had significant playmaking in all three phases. I liked the way that our team didn’t blink in the face of adversity. It was another positive. There was a lot of adversity, some trying times in that football game.
Negatively speaking, some of the adversity of course was self-induced, as is always the case in football. I thought the turnover jump-started them, and that’s just how it is. I thought we were highly penalized. We can’t be as penalized as we’ve been – not only in that game but in the last two weeks – and think we’re going to be successful on the road against a good Baltimore Ravens (http://bal.scout.com/) team.
From an injury standpoint, Antonio Brown (http://pit.scout.com/a.z?s=68&p=8&c=1&nid=4937116) worked out this morning. He had a really good workout. We’re optimistic about this guy being able to participate in the early portions and really, fully participate this week. Nick Eason (http://pit.scout.com/a.z?s=68&p=8&c=1&nid=4892590) looks to be pretty good. He might be limited somewhat in the initial part of the week. The same thing can be said of Bryant McFadden (http://pit.scout.com/a.z?s=68&p=8&c=1&nid=4937082), but of course when you’re dealing with a hamstring it could be a little more problematic. But he’s slated to participate. Same thing could be said with Ben with his foot sprain. He might be limited somewhat tomorrow.
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