Mike Tomlin addressed what he called "the elephant in the room" in a sit-down interview with his former boss, Tony Dungy, during NBC's 'Football Night in America' prior to the Steelers' 31-28 win Sunday over the Packers.
Dungy asked Tomlin about his team's focus this season, specifically regarding the Patriots' Dec. 17 visit to Heinz Field.
Tomlin replied, "I’m going to embrace the elephant in the room. There’s going to be fireworks. But it’s probably going to be Part 1. You know? You’ll burn more fuel trying to pretend like that doesn’t exist than just to acknowledge the elephant in the room. Man, that’s going to be a big game. But probably if we’re both doing what we’re supposed to do, the second one is really going to be big and what happens in the first is going to set up the second one. It’s going to determine the location of the second one. You know?”
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