Nothing replaced the competitiveness, what you feel after a game like the Cincinnati game. I started to miss that on Saturdays and Sundays. After so many years of playing, you had that void. I didn’t...

That was not my intent. I was sincerely interested in the job, and I have tremendous respect for Mr. Davis. But when we won the Super Bowl, the way the fans were during the parade,...

Obviously, he keeps showing up, keeps making plays,

We’ve had a couple situations in a game where we wanted to get him the ball, … But, for whatever reason, the coverage hasn’t worked out right and we’ve had to throw the check-down or...

(Our) thinking was since they (Colts) had all of their time outs, taking knees would give the ball back to them. Besides, how often does Jerome fumble the ball? Almost never. It was just a...

You definitely have to account for it,

Early in the week, you kind of lose your sense of perception. It was nice (Wednesday) to get back on the football field and gear back into what’s important. In season, you get into such...

The guy won 13 or 14 games for us, so obviously, your confidence level in him is much higher. He’s been so diligent in how he’s prepared and how he’s studied. If there’s a route...

Bill said, ‘You know what, this is a one-game season from now on. That’s the mentality we played with. Leave nothing in the bag.

Logging 15 or 16 games in a row will get them physically and mentally worn out. At the end of the year, you have to be more careful because they reach an information overload.

We’ll have to evaluate that based on Jerome’s injury and after we’ve looked at the tape.

He’s in so many different places. You have to make sure you’re protected, scheme-wise.

You can’t point the finger at that. There were a lot of factors involved with that game. We certainly weren’t giving him a lot of time to throw the ball at times.

When I was finished after the 1993 season, there was something missing. After being involved with it for so long, when Saturday and Sunday rolled around and football was going on and you weren’t involved,...

The timing was just a little bit off. He still had a little residual soreness. But he took all the snaps today.

From what I’ve talked with him when we’ve been on the practice field, yes. He’s seen some things. He’s talked about some things. From that standpoint, he’s been good.

I had a great visit with Mr. Davis, and I’m grateful for the opportunity. I just realized that I wanted to stay in Pittsburgh.

The biggest positive was his game management, how he handled the huddle, how he did things in the game, … Of course, he wasn’t in there long, but he was smart with the ball, especially...

I don’t think it was as much Ben, … Certainly, he finished strong, he got us down there and we scored on that last drive. That’s one encouraging thing that came out of it —...

I could lay it out for you, play by play, … but a lot of it was just getting lucky and catching them in the right thing. They run a zone blitz, you can catch...

The ideal scenario is what we have been doing for the past couple of weeks. For us, we have been so little pass that it seems like when we go 50-50 run and pass, it...

Absolutely. I think it’s a combination of just being comfortable with the system and trusting the guys. We’ve had some success with some things.

What has happened at that position is you have bigger guys who can run a little bit, and certainly when you have a bigger target it makes it a lot easier to find them. People...

They’re both legitimate NFL starters.

To me, his history has been that he shows up on game day and he plays very well. That’s all I can judge it by. He made some good throws, he made some plays and...

We’ve done a lot this training camp,

I felt good about something positive coming out of the play. It was a good time to take a shot at it.

That’s something that grows over time. We’re developing that here, certainly, but it takes time.

I think the big part of it is the quarterback and that tight end’s relationship,

We had the protection and we felt good that the protection was going to hold up. It was funny because we ran it in practice the other day and it worked almost exactly like that.

What Ben saw was good, … He trusted it, which is what you want him to do. And then I told him, ‘You just gotta trust your guy to make a play.’

It’s just a matter of time,

We almost called that play once or twice earlier in the game. But the spot we were at on the field was what we had targeted would be a good spot for us to do...

It’s a good thing that he wants to play,

It went right out my mouth, and it’s still up in the booth.

We ran the play at a walk-through on Saturday and we had to kind of walk through a couple things with it . . . . But we thought we’d have one guy left (open)...

We set that up from how we thought they’d play us in that set. It’s funny. We ran it in practice the other day, and it worked out almost exactly like that.

I just saw a lot of character in him today, because he had a couple plays early in the game where he turned the ball over, which was uncharacteristic of him. But he didn’t lose...

I believe we can win any game throwing the football. Our identity is running the football and we’re going to try to run it, but if a game calls for us to throw the football,...

I’m honored to be considered for that job, but I’ve been so focused on getting to this game and winning this game that that’s been on the back burner. If something comes up, we’ll just...

They have been sitting through the meetings all year long so I don’t think so. They’ve been involved in it all year long so it shouldn’t be a problem.

He’s just more comfortable with everything not only with the game plan, but the whole environment. The game has slowed down for him. He’s seeing the field well. I’ve got a lot more confidence in...

He came here with a good idea of how to block. It’s actually been surprising how well he’s done with that aspect of the game.

We felt good about the line going into the season. Then we had some problems.

You never know when he’s going to snap the ball. If you’re trying to disguise and he quick-snaps you, you’re caught out of place.

When you have a different receiver every day, there’s timing issues involved. The thing I’ve been most pleased with is, a lot of times, we’re just missing (on pass attempts). Ben’s getting it to the...

I thought it would be a good play, but certainly you don’t expect that. I thought we would get something good out of the play, maybe a first down; worst case, it would put us...

The running game is always going to be important for us. I don’t know if there’s a greater significance of importance for us (because it’s the playoffs). When our run game is going, I think...

That’s a big sign of what the really good quarterbacks do.

He knew that he needed to practice today in order to play on Sunday, and he did,