The Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday night blowout loss to the New England Patriots was stomach-churning on many levels. In fact, watching the 60 minutes of action surely made fans of the team feel like they had eaten some bad eggs. Speaking of eggs, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin admitted Tuesday during his weekly press conference that his team laid one Sunday night against the Patriots.
“We laid an egg,” Tomlin said. “We had a poor short-yardage plan and poor execution of it in the game. And like I mentioned after the game, particularly in that type of environment, environmentally it creates some short-yardage issues for you in terms of a use of cadence and snap count in that environment and they’re really good.