"We have a lot of weapons and the offensive line protects well," said Roethlisberger. "I can't say enough about how well they played. It's a really good defense and they protected me. It's a good team win against a really good team."

Seven different players scored and10 players caught passes from Roethlisberger. On the Steelers first offensive play of the game Roethlisberger hit JuJu Smith-Schuster in stride around the 47-yard line and he took it 75 yards for a touchdown to tie the game, 7-7, and there was no turning back.

"I was going to throw it," said Roethlisberger of what he saw on the play. "I saw them rolling to a specific coverage to play a little soft from the outside, so James Conner was out there. So, I was actually getting ready to throw it to him. It looked like I kind of pump-faked but really, I was going to throw it. The safety that came down was jumping that and that let JuJu Smith-Schuster go up that seam, so I tried to take as much air off it and put it on a line to get it to him as fast as I could. He just turned on the burners and out ran everybody.

"There were a lot of situations we kind of opened the game up. Obviously, the first play was a big one. After that taking some short stuff. From there it was trying to read what they threw at us. They threw a lot of different looks and blitzes at us. I thought Randy Fichtner called a great game and the players made plays."