Mike Tomlin’s not anxious about Antonio Brown’s celebrations

But Pagano realizes that with four games remaining in the regular season, starting with Sunday’s road trip to AFC South rival Jacksonville, the Colts can write their own story the rest of the way.

For as unstoppable as Roethlisberger, Brown and the rest of Pittsburgh’s offense looked while racing past the Colts, the Steelers’ early season missteps mean there is very little margin for error.

Ben Roethlisberger led all playoff QB’s during the 2005 playoffs with 803 passing yards, edging out then Seattle Seahawks QB Matt Hasselbeck, now playing for the Colts; also the man that Roethlisberger “smoked” on Sunday. Roethlisberger has thrown for 344 yards with two touchdown passes to Brown and one each to Markus Wheaton and Martavis Bryant.

Brown caught eight passes for 118 yards and two touchdowns. It is unfortunate that he will be going out on these terms, but the NFL is a “what have you done for me lately league” and Jacoby is just the latest in a long line of victims. This is a great style of play to have, but the Colts have made mistakes against every solid playoff team this season. But this past week against the Colts, he showed his is not over his fumbling ways, committing his second and third fumbles of his short Steelers tenure, losing one of them.

The Steelers (7-5) moved a game ahead of the Colts (6-6) while keeping pace with the New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC wild-card race. Pittsburgh recorded five sacks, including three by linebacker James Harrison, due in part to mixing the pressure against Colts quarterback Matt Hasselbeck.

In his past four games, Roethlisberger threw for 1,533 yards with 12 touchdowns and four interceptions. “We were in it. We had chances and we didn’t capitalize offensively”.

“I don’t know about that yet”, he said.

“We realize the significance of this opportunity this weekend”, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. But as for the now, the Steelers (7-5) bludgeoned the Indianapolis Colts 45-10 at Heinz Field in a key game for both teams.

Final score: Pittsburgh 45, Indianapolis 10. That way I can run out to Primanti’s and get myself a low-calorie Pittsburgher sandwich.

“Andrew is still week-to-week although he was throwing the ball around last week, he’s taking it slow”.

Antonio Brown crossed the goal line with the exclamation-point touchdown and decided it was time to turn the goal post into his personal jungle gym. That run ended abruptly when Roethlisberger went off and Hasselbeck exited in the fourth quarter with neck and shoulder pain.

Roethlisberger provided the exclamation point with a 48-yard pass to Brown, three plays before the wide receiver hauled in his second touchdown catch.

Brown has had multiple touchdowns in two of the last three games he played in, and is tied with Antonio Gates for the most multi-touchdown games over the last two seasons (they each have six).