Hey, guys, welcome to AFC North Championship Week.

He too can play at this game.

I'm Dan Kavachovich of the K Pittsburgh Sports.

He's Chris Halleck.

We're, and we're fired up, man.

AFC North Championship Week, as it's been labeled.

That was a decision, was it not?

That is, by the way, how Mike Tomlin literally opened his press conference before

any questions.

That was what he said said as if this was

like college or something so mike tomlman's press conferences always start with the same two words

good afternoon and then right after that like the next thing he said was welcome to a fc north

championship week and like with with a really big smile on his

face like it's not like he was smile in the face of adversity and all that yeah yeah that's that's

where we are it is the playoffs start start on Sunday night for the Steelers.

That's the way it goes.

You know, he has to do what he has to do.

I don't think there's much more to analyze there than that.

And if there's one thing that he has done, well,

and I think it's almost to a fault that the situations keep

turning themselves into this, it's to succeed, sometimes even excel whenever the figurative

back is against the wall.

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