After the Pittsburgh Steelers 28-14 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, head coach Mike Tomlin addressed the media. A humble Tomlin came to the microphone and was more than willing to swallow his pride and give all credit to the Ravens,

In a fiery post-game message, Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin placed the blame squarely on Russell Wilson for his team's crushing playoff defeat to Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens.

Following the game head coach Mike Tomlin didn't make excuses for the ... cameras caught Tomlin's message to Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson after a hard hit along the sidelines.

PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin is not sure that the team needs to bottom out or ‘tank’ to land their next franchise quarterback. When asked about the notion, Tomlin brushed it off, citing examples from Lamar Jackson to Jalen Hurts.

The Ravens put the Steelers in a bag with their run game from the opening drive in their wild-card win, and they never let up. Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry were unstoppable.

Tomlin isn’t the problem with the Steelers. Saying he is requires a belief the Steelers should have won more than 10 games this season. But the frustration from Steelers fans is valid.

With Zay Flowers out, Todd Monken got crafty with a new wrinkle. Rashod Bateman was clutch. How Roger Rosengarten pitched a shutout vs. T.J. Watt.

Unable to reverse the negative momentum of a late-season fade, the Pittsburgh Steelers disappeared from the playoffs with a humbling loss to their fiercest rival.

Jackson is now 3-5 in the playoffs and he was asked how difficult it is to deal with falling short again. “I have to get over this, because we’re right there ,” Jackson said. “I’m tired of being right there, we need to punch it in. We need to punch in that ticket. We have to get right in the offseason.”

The countdown to Super Bowl LIX is on and talkSPORT.com will keep you up to date with all the news from around the league. The race to New Orleans on February 9 has reached the win-or-go-home

It was a sequence that perfectly captured the Pittsburgh Steelers’ desultory first-round playoff loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday night, and also the desultory, mediocre reality that has surrounded the Steelers for a decade now.