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Kovacevic: The path back from being pounded ... is to pound right back

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For all the NFL's schematic intricacies, all the available pieces and parts in personnel deployment, all the adjustments anyone could conceive, there remains only one real solution to being "kicked in the teeth."

Don't overthink it.

"Our goal," as Isaiahh Loudermilk was telling me this week, "is to be physical. To put our hands on people. Especially given the showing we had last week, getting run all over. It'll be huge for us to make sure we're the ones setting that tone, that we're the ones being physical."

Mm-hm.

Don't misunderstand: These Steelers need a whole lot more than a little snarl to bounce back tonight against the Browns, 8:15 p.