Pittsburgh Steelers Head Coach Mike Tomlin - Ingles

Press Conference

January 18, 2011

Coach Tomlin: Good afternoon. We are excited to be here at this point this week, the week of the AFC Championship game. That was one of the points I made to our football team. Oftentimes when you get to this leg of the journey you say that you are into the AFC Championship. I wanted to make that point clear to our team yesterday. I told them that the game was Sunday at 6:30 p.m. This is the week of the game for us.

We need to take an opportunity to make really good use of this time, this preparation time and prepare ourselves for what is going to be an exciting football game versus the Jets. If you look at the Jets, it’s really nothing short of remarkable what they have done to get to this point. They went to Indianapolis and beat those guys; they went to New England and beat those guys. They deserve to be here as do we.

We are familiar with them. They have been in Heinz Field recently and whacked us, and beat us at our place. We are going to have to play better than how we did last time. The major components of their personality are still very similar to what it was several weeks ago. Much like we are. If you look at these guys offensively, they have a two-headed running back attack with LaDainian Tomlinson and Shonn Greene.

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