Aside from both teams having future Hall of Famers at the quarterback position, they were both also coached by two of the best head coaches in the league, Mike Tomlin and Belichick. On a recent episode of his podcast, Games With Names, Julian Edelman discussed how Belichick would game plan for Roethlisberger.

"We’d have like a 45-play cut up. Bill would show the whole team a cut up anytime we were playing the Steelers about how Big Ben was so hard to bring down. It’d be like NFL Films, he’d play it through and it’d be Ben shrugging off a huge defensive lineman. He’d pause it and go, ‘Just when you think you got him, you don’t.’ Guy was pretty good, love, love Big Ben."

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