Days after the Steelers and Browns' Thursday night game ended in a brawl, Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin is finally ready to address it.
"It was ugly," he said. "It was ugly for the game of football. I think all of us that are involved in the game, particularly at this level, want to safeguard and protect the game, its integrity. And in that instance, it was compromised, obviously, with an unfortunate incident.
"None of us want those incidents to transpire. It did. We were a part of it. We accept responsibility for our actions within it."
Tomlin declined to talk about the incident after the game on Thursday night and was hesitant to say much on Tuesday as players are waiting to appeal suspensions related to the fracas.