Mike Tomlin

And I just thought guys like Benton and Hayward and Harmon,

did a real nice job of winning those one-on-ones, shedding tacklers, I mean, shedding blocks and getting in on tackles, not giving him clean access to the second and third level, which oftentimes is a recipe for disaster when facing the big runner.

We certainly took some schematic risk in an effort to minimize Lamar's talents in the game.

And I think we suffered the consequences from that at times.

We overplayed maybe some design runs and we put ourselves in some thinned out coverage circumstances.

But that's what you do when you plan and plan to win.

In the analysis of it, we'd probably do it again, to be quite honest with you.

That's the type of challenges that guys like him put you in, in terms of decision making.

But certainly we've been in the stadium against those guys a bunch, and we just felt like we couldn't allow him to run wild.

When you do that, you got multiple problems.

And so we chose a hill to die on, if you will, thankfully.

We didn't, although they did hit some big plays on us, particularly in possession down moments where we were

allocating the appropriate number of people.

Before we found our footing offensively, I thought our ability to get stout after those first two drives and get stops and minimize them probably more than anything on possession downs was a significant component of the game.

On offense...

I thought, you know, once we got our footing and got going, we stayed in that general direction.

Can't say enough about the two running backs.

They were impactful.

They were impactful in the run.

They were impactful in the check down game, winning one-on-one opportunities in the flat and so forth and turning short games into longer ones.