Mike Tomlin Praises Russell Wilson's Performance Post-Game

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00:00All right, big fans of Mike Tomlin here on Coast to Coast.

00:07After a win, what did the coach have to say?

00:09I bet he was very happy.

00:11He said he was going to wear that sweater.

00:13He's going to wear the sweater if you destroy my sweater.

00:23And he put it on.

00:24He said he was going to live with the decision that Russell Wilson would be a starter.

00:29And he certainly seemed very happy with that decision.

00:33It was the first question he was asked last night after the game.

00:35How would you evaluate Russ tonight?

00:38You know, I thought he, I thought he was excellent.

00:42I thought he got better as the game went on, man.

00:44I thought he, but I'm not surprised by that, man.

00:46It's been a while since he's played some ball.

00:49But I thought he settled in, knocked the rust off, man, and distributed the ball around

00:53and played well.

00:55Is part of that wanting to see how guys respond to him, how the team plays with Russ Hunter-Setter?

01:00Yes.

01:01Yes.

01:02He had a, he had a couple of good ones last night, like really short ones, like hard to

01:09play ones.

01:10Like somebody asked him about Russ, the keeper, you know, the getting the touchdown, the one

01:16yard of a sound, like they gave this big explanation about the play and Tomlin just looked at the

01:21reporter and goes, yeah, it was just a quarterback sneak.

01:25You know, that's it.

01:26It was just a quarterback sneak.

01:27Like, let's not, you know, let's, let's calm down.

01:29It's not that serious.

01:30He, he, this is, this went very well for him last night.

01:34He looks like roses today.

01:36He wanted to see Russ in there.

01:38I'll tell, I'll say this too.

01:40I thought Russ looked good.

01:41I did not expect to see him throwing the ball that well.

01:45And the main thing was getting it to Pickens, which is what everybody wants him to do.

01:49So Russ is going to be the guy now, you know, that last year he threw 26 studies and eight

01:55picks.

01:56I'll take that every day.

01:58I'll take that every day.