PITTSBURGH -- One is loud. One isn't. One speaks his mind. One doesn't. One has a Super Bowl title as a head coach. The other's still in search of one.

But don't tell Mike Tomlin that he's not like the New York Jets' Rex Ryan. The Pittsburgh Steelers coach actually believes there are similarities between the two.

Who knew?

Tomlin isn't the type to brazenly predict his team will win the Super Bowl. And he doesn't figure to ever make use of a weekly news conference to point out that the upcoming game is "personal," as Ryan famously has during this postseason.

Tomlin also works for an organization that would, in all likelihood, politely decline allowing HBO cameras to document the team's training camp, as the Jets did this past summer for a reality series.

But throw all that out for a second. During his weekly news conference Tuesday in advance of the AFC Championship Game between his Steelers (13-4) and Ryan's Jets (13-5), Tomlin implied that if someone were given that kind of behind-the-scenes access to his team, they'd discover that New York and Pittsburgh aren't that far apart.

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