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I thought that it was a good win for us tonight. \u00a0I thought our players really competed well, obviously Pittsburgh\u2019s a very good football team, very explosive offensively and I thought we hang in there we we made enough plays that we needed to make. \u00a0Certainly wasn’t perfect, but it was … it was good enough and we’ll take that. Certainly a lot we can learn from this game situationally and just overall execution. We had a lot of young players play three offensive lineman, a couple of defensive lineman and receiver, DB, and long snapper so you I thought those lineman, looked like we hang in there. I’m not saying it was perfect and we’ll look at the the tape and I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll be a lot of corrections to make but I thought those guys competed well and it was a battle all the way down to the wire. \u00a0Pittsburgh\u2019s never out of the game with the explosiveness they have offensively. So I thought we were able to take advantage of some scoring opportunities, get the ball into the red area and you know, held them to some field goals and you know, missed field goals certainly helped. \u00a0But our red area offense was good and that was, in the end, probably the difference in the game. \u00a0Heading into the division now but it\u2019s good to be 1-0.<\/span><\/p>\n On the play of the new secondary and how he would assess their play after Ben Roethlisberger threw for over 350 yards:<\/b><\/p>\n That\u2019s about the way it\u2019s been when we\u2019ve Ben [Roethlisberger]. \u00a0He seems like he always throws for 350-400 against us the last 3-4 times. \u00a0He’s a great quarterback. They have a great offense, a lot of good receivers. \u00a0Certainly things we could do better but I thought we competed well and we made some plays. \u00a0The interception was a big play. It was a big turnover. Some of our 3rd down stops in the red area were important. \u00a0But they’re good…they’re good. \u00a0There\u2019s not much margin for error with him and that offense.<\/span><\/p>\n On his thoughts on Tom Brady’s performance whether there was there any concern the outside situation would affect him during the game:<\/b><\/p>\n Yeah, well I mean, again, the 28 points was good. Were there plays that could have been better? \u00a0We could have coached better, we could have played better, there\u2019s things we could have all done better. \u00a0So there\u2019s certainly a lot of room for improvement but we\u2019ll take the production that we had. \u00a0Good to be 1-0. \u00a0Good to score 28 points. \u00a0We left some plays out there on the field. \u00a0We just have to do a better job of coaching and playing and keep getting better each week.<\/span><\/p>\n On the reports of the headset malfunctions and if it affected them as well:<\/b><\/p>\n It did, yeah. We had a lot of problems. \u00a0We had to switch headphones a couple times. the communication system wasn’t, you know, very good. \u00a0I mean, we deal with that, seems like, weekly. \u00a0But yeah, they told us they were on the verge of shutting it off but then I guess they got it working. \u00a0So I don’t know, but it was a problem the whole game. \u00a0We almost had to switch helmets with Brady there at the end, couldn\u2019t get the plays into him. So it was a problem all night.<\/span><\/p>\n On if he ever got an answer to what the problem was<\/b><\/p>\n Well, no. \u00a0That’s not, we never get that answer. \u00a0They just try to fix it and they tell you it\u2019s up or it’s down or whatever so I don’t know, that\u2019s not really my, not really a very strong area for me is, technology<\/span><\/p>\n On the big stop they made with the goal line defense to hold them to a field goal when the score was 22-11:<\/b><\/p>\n That was a big play for us. \u00a0You know, to get them into a third down and goal and then we stunted into a tight look and it looked like they false started on that so we were able to make the stop on 3rd-and-6 and hold them to a field goal. \u00a0So that was huge. \u00a0Anytime they get the ball down at the 1yd line, if you can just come out of there with three points, it\u2019s really a four point play for us. \u00a0The third down stop, I think that was when they were trying to run the trap, right? Tried to run the inside run if I remember right. So yeah, that was a huge play in the game. Huge.<\/span><\/p>\n On the fact they had a lot of youth on the offensive line and his thoughts on how they performed:<\/b><\/p>\n Yeah, we talked about that earlier. I thought they hung in there, the offensive lineman and on defense with Geno and Malcom. \u00a0\u00a0I know there were some errors, but I think they competed well. \u00a0I think we hung in there. \u00a0Hopefully we can build on that and, you know, get better. \u00a0David [Andrews], you know, pretty much went all the way at center. \u00a0And then Shaq [Mason] and Josh and Trey, kind of \u2026 all three played some guard, \u00a0So you know, we had overall, I\u2019d say pass protection was okay. \u00a0We had some running plays that weren’t great. \u00a0Some that were okay. I thought [Dion] Lewis ran the ball well. I don’t know if we blocked as well as we’d like to. \u00a0So we\u2019ve got a of work to do, but I thought they competed well and they hung in there. You know, we had eight rookies play and they all contributed. \u00a0So hopefully they\u2019ll get better.<\/span><\/p>\n On all the lot of substituting tonight, whether it was game plan specific or if he does that sometimes just to see what they\u2019ve got to try some guys out at new positions:<\/b><\/p>\n Yeah, I wouldn\u2019t say we were trying anybody out. We were trying to win. The Steelers had several different match-ups they hadn\u2019t really shown much dime defensive at all this year they did some of that last year with [Troy] Polamalu but they didn’t do it all really in preseason, they stayed pretty much nickel and then tonight they mixed in dime, nickel and some of their base defense. \u00a0So we had, you know, several different personnel groupings out there and they sometimes matched them the same, sometimes they changed it up a little bit in the second half they changed the matches so you know that just trying to \u2026 a little bit of that just trying to work it out. \u00a0Just seeing who they were matched up with, what we want to try to do against one group vs another group but you know that\u2019s kind of what we do. \u00a0We get everybody involved and use different groupings so that’s not really uncommon on our end. But we were doing with the same thing. \u00a0You know, they were using Archer a little bit at running back. \u00a0Williams obviously ran well. \u00a046 was in there really playing tailback even know he’s a tight end but then they used him as a running back and protection situations as well as their 12 and 11 personnel. \u00a0So a little bit of that going both ways. \u00a0Just trying to, you know, get it matched up and it\u2019s hard at this time of year where, you know, you have a lot of guys running on and off, you’re trying to play, probably played more players than you would normally play just because it’s early in the season to you know kind of manage the playing time little bit and then on top of that you a lot of substitutions in the kicking game and so forth. \u00a0So we need to clean that up but that was definitely a part of the game, was just the organizational part of the getting on and off the field, getting the right guys out there.<\/span><\/p>\n On his thoughts on what he saw from Chandler and Gronkowski and how much freedom they have to adjust depending on the coverage:<\/b><\/p>\n Not much. \u00a0I mean we call the play, we need him to run the route that we tell him to run. We really try to go out there and execute the plays that we have called. \u00a0We\u2019re not really on that program where everybody goes out and does whatever they feel like doing. \u00a0We try to run the plays that are called and run them with good technique and execution so the quarterback knows where those guys are going to be in and we can time it up. \u00a0Rob did a nice job on that fade route of kind of, stemming the defender in at the goal line and creating some separation. \u00a0On the first touchdown, Rob\u2019s slant, the linebacker had to go over the top and it was a close play. \u00a0But Scott was able to get in the end zone. \u00a0But I thought they were both fairly well executed.<\/span><\/p>\n On an update on Dominique Easley:<\/b><\/p>\n Um, no. \u00a0I know you expected one.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bill Belichick talked to the media following the team’s win over Pittsburgh and this is the transcript from that press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots-news"],"yoast_head":"\n