Mike Tomlin

So that stands out to me as a juicy subplot as well.

limits why don't you uh play a couple of clips from the tomlin news conference and we'll give the mongoose center stage here i'd love to i first would like to bring this to your attention brian because tomlin does not like when miles garrett is brought to his mike you guys uh the office struggled into the brown you guys were putting the effort in to stop miles garrett as a pass rusher now you're dealing with two elite as russian threats how do you guys

make the plan work and pass protection while avoiding the pitfalls that hit you guys against the Browns in the offense.

Is that one of those Shakespeare thou doth protest too much type of answers there, right?

I think maybe I made this point last week on the show with Austin, but I think there's a little bit of a sliver of truth in between.

Yeah, you did nothing different schematically versus the Cleveland side of it, which is, oh, you changed your whole game plan to keep this guy out of the box score.

I think there's a

There's a gray area.

There's a middle of the Venn diagram where, yes, the Steelers did what they often do to try to minimize Garrett like they did in that first game, but that Aaron Rodgers himself was sort of making some decisions of, I'm not even going to attempt to extend this play or hold on to this ball a little longer for something to develop because we can get out of here with a win and we can get out of here...

without Garrett getting that record on us and potentially knocking me out of the rest of the season with a sack.

So I get what Tomlin's saying, but yeah, that struck me.

I'm glad you played that clip limits because that is one thing that stood out to me, the way that he kind of not jumped on Chris Carter's question there, but he clearly bristled at the line of questioning yet again.

I mean, go tell Miles Garrett that.

Go tell Brian Baldinger.

Go tell Chris Sims.

A lot of different people who said they look to be more interested in avoiding the sack record than winning the game.

Obviously, everybody wants to block Miles Garrett, right?

Well, it seems to me that other teams like the Patriots basically said he's going to get his and so will we.

We're not going to alter things to a ridiculous point.

I don't know.