Mike Tomlin

We did the same thing last time we played him.

I didn't think he had any sacks in that game either.

And so we didn't take a different approach because of the gravity of the record.

It's just standard business when you're playing these guys and him.

As always, I'll start with a quick roundup on our last performance from last night.

As I said after the game, you know, I thought we had a clear...

path to engineering victory.

Certainly they had established a certain personality during their four-game win streak.

A major component of that was their run game, as I mentioned.

They had averaged about 192 a game over the previous five games.

And so certainly we had to minimize that.

But it's just more than just stopping the run on specific downs per se.

It's a collective approach.

And

I thought we did a nice job of minimizing that mode of producing victory for them, not only with the way that we played the run, but with the way we ran the ball offensively, the way we possessed the ball offensively.

Us being aggressive on fourth down plays, particularly early on, was a strategic component of minimizing their run.

Us getting off on third down offensively,

was a major component defensively of us minimizing their run.

They weren't able to get a new set of downs very often and established a rhythm that it produced a 192 per game.

And certainly we thought if we could do that, we would position ourselves to maybe take the ball away.