PITTSBURGH STEELERS QB BEN ROETHLISBERGER - Ingles

AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
NATIONAL MEDIA CONFERENCE CALL

January 20, 2011

On benefits of postseason experience entering this weekend’s AFC Championship Game:

It helps with being familiar with the atmosphere, the intensity of the game and knowing every play matters, every play counts and every mistake is magnified. Being here and having done this before, you don’t really get surprised with how big the game is.

On his confidence in Steelers WRs Antonio Brown, Emmanuel Sanders and Mike Wallace:

Those guys have done such a great job – speaking of Mike (Wallace) first – of really growing from last year to this year. Obviously, everyone talks about how fast he is. (Steelers head) Coach (Mike) Tomlin teases him and calls him a one-trick pony, but he has done a great job of being able to do more than just run fast down the field. He kind of takes pride in putting the extra work in to being a better all-around wide receiver. He is still growing. The sky is the limit for him.

As for Emmanuel (Sanders) and Antonio (Brown), those guys both put in a lot of work and time because they know they have got to live up to the expectations of Mike Wallace and (Steelers WR) Hines Ward who has been here forever. It is really an awesome thing to see those guys work and really just blossom and grow every week.

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