Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Steelers looked like a different team in the final month of the season. After starting out 10-3, they ended the year on a five-game losing streak, including a first-round playoff exit. In short order, they went from competing for a first-round bye to falling out of the first Wild Card seed.
Regardless of where the Steelers started, it was the team they were at the end that played in the playoffs. And Tomlin knows that team deserved what it got. The Ravens didn’t do anything out of the ordinary to win—they simply whooped a weaker team.