Mike Tomlin press conference
Lucy Schaly
Posted: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:11 pm | Updated: 4:54 pm, Tue Oct 18, 2011.
Excerpts of Mike Tomlin's briefing with the media covering the Steelers:
Injury update:
"From an injury standpoint, we have some good news. Troy Polamalu appears to be good to go. He did a concussion test, and he passed it. He met with our neurosurgeons, and they are very comfortable with where he is. We anticipate him practicing tomorrow, and him moving on throughout the week like everyone else on our football team. Mike Wallace has a minor hamstring injury. It may limit him at the early portion of the week. We have some guys coming back, thankfully. Marcus Gilbert is going to potentially be back at practice this week. We'll let his practice participation dictate if he plays. Mewelde Moore is another guy that is capable of working during this week. We will let his work dictate where we go there. Jason Worilds, Chris Kemoeatu and all of those guys, we anticipate getting them back. Unfortunately, Doug Legursky is going to be out, and he will be out for a number of weeks with a dislocated toe. It didn't require surgery but if you see him walking around, he will be walking around in a boot. He will be out for a number of weeks. Some other guys that have been out but are working their way back to participating, but they'll probably stay on the outside looking in this week, are Casey Hampton, James Harrison and Aaron Smith. Chris Hoke experienced a stinger in the game. He is experiencing some lack of strength in his shoulder. We will continue to monitor him throughout the week. He will have to regain that strength in his shoulder before he can move on and participate. His practice participation is in question as we sit here."
RE: on this week's game in Arizona:
"We have clarity in terms of what's in front of us, what our challenges are for this week. We understand we have some work to do. We will start that process with our guys tomorrow. We will take this show on the road, and see if we can get a good road performance, the one we desire to have if we want to be a good football team. I think it's very obvious that we've performed to a winning level at home. We haven't done so on the road. We understand that if we want to be a contender, be a winning team, a January-type team, we have to perform better on the road than we have. We will proceed and prepare this week with that in mind."
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