Mike Tomlin

And so that's what yesterday was about.

In review of the game, quickly I'll assess the phases.

I thought in general in all three phases we had appropriate physicality.

Certainly physicality is a component of the rivalry.

And I thought particularly as the game were on, we had the necessary physicality to produce victory.

In the special teams game, I thought penalties slowed our efforts.

In the kickoff return, I thought we were really good from a field position perspective, but we had one ball out beyond the 40.

They got negated by a penalty.

We had a penalty on our punt team as well.

Thankfully, on the re-kick, Corliss did an awesome job on the re-kick, and that doesn't always occur, and so we're thankful for that.

But if we're going to...

continue on in this tournament as the road gets narrow.

We certainly can't be penalized in that phase of the game, and particularly from a return perspective, negating the chance of any field flipping plays or any significant plays that way.

We just can't run the risk of that.

I've been pleased with our punting and gunning in the punt phase.

There's been minimal return yards, really over the course of the season.

We've had minimal return yards.

I think we got 170 return yards in the punt return game in 17 games.

And that's certainly solid.

And I think Sunday night was reflective of that as well.