Mike Tomlin, to the surprise of many, decided to receive the opening kickoff after the won the coin to s at the start of Sunday's game against the . Tomlin's team rewarded his decision by recording a 16-play, 75-yard drive that ended with 11-yard touchdown pa s to receiver . The score was the first of four consecutive scoring drives by the Steelers, who built a 20-point lead before they held on for a 27-24 victory.Tomlin, whose team improved to 6-0 and are now the 's only undefeated team, was extremely transparent when asked about his decision to give his offense the ball to start Sunday's game."We wanted to answer all the questions from you guys about how we start the game," . "And so, we took the ball, we went down the field and scored a touchown so you guys can stop asking me about it."The questions Tomlin eluded to was the byproduct of the Luis Tiant Jersey Steelers failing to score a touchdown on their opening drive for 23 straight games, which stood as the league's longest drought before Pittsburgh finally ended it Sunday in Nashville. The last time the Steelers had scored on their opening po se sion prior to Sunday was in Week 15 of the 2018 season, when Pittsburgh defeated the at home, 17-10. "Everyone can stop talking about scoring on the opening drive," said Roethlisberger, who went 10-of-12 pa sing on Pittsburgh's opening drive. "I came into this game and told coach Tomlin, 'We're going to take the ball. We're not going to defer.'"Roethlisberger said that the decision to receive the opening kickoff also had something to do with Sunday's opponent."It was a combination of feeling good about the script, but also knowing that they're a team that lives on time Rusney Castillo Jersey of po se sion, playing from the lead," Roethlisberger said of the Titans. "We wanted to take the ball and do whatever we could do score and give our defense a leg up in terms of what the Titans may do on offense." PIT QB #7 Roethlisberger is on pace to throw for 3,856 yards with 35 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. He is also completing a career-high 68.2% of his pa ses. On Sunday, Roethlisberger completed a season-high 32 pa ses to seven different teammates. Johnson and caught a combined 18 pa ses for 165 yards. Tight ends and combined to catch eight pa ses for 64 yards, while , who ama sed 111 all-purpose yards, caught three pa ses that included an 18-yard pa s that set up the first of two field goals."A lot of guys caught pa ses today," Roethlisberger said. "And that's what we specialize in. That's what this team is about, is everyone being involved. I don't even know how many catches Chase Claypool had, but it didn't feel like he even did a lot today. But everyone was involved. Everyone made plays. And that's what's fun, is what we've got a lot of guys that can contribute to us winning."Claypool, the Steelers' rookie receiver, caught just one pa s (his only target of the game) for minus two yards. He spent his afternoon being blanketed by , the Titans' No. 1 cornerback. And while it was clear that the Titans were intent on not allowing Nick Yorke Jersey Claypool (whose six total touchdowns through six games leads all NFL rookies) to make a statistical impact on Sunday's game, Claypool still found a way to help his team. Claypool, along with helping spread the field for the rest of his teammates, forced Butler to commit a pa s inference penalty during the first drive of the second half. The 21-yard penalty helped set up Boswell's second field goal which turned out to be the game's deciding three points. Pittsburgh's early succe s was largely due to their ability to convert on third down. Facing the league's 32nd ranked third-down defense, the Steelers converted on all but one of their first nine third-down situations and were 13-of-18 for the game on third down. The Steelers also scored touchdowns on three of their five trips inside the red zone.While starting fast and converting on third down wasn't an i sue, the Steelers did struggle to take care of the ball against a Titans defense that is currently second in the NFL in interceptions forced. Roethlisberger, who threw just one interception during Pittsburgh's first Johnny Pesky Jersey five games, threw three interceptions on Sunday that included two picks in the second half. The interceptions contributed to the Steelers' offense coming up empty on their final four po se sions.Pittsburgh's defense, however, was able to come up with just enough plays (none bigger than pre sure on quarterback that resulted in an intentional grounding penalty on the Titans' final po se sion) to preserve the win. "It wasn't always pretty," Roethlisberger said of Sunday's performance. "There were times that it was. Three interceptions is unaccapble on my part. I need to clean it up and be better. The defense came through in the end. Everything played itself out ... At the end of the day, we got a win against a really good football team at their place."Roethlisberger is confident that he and his teammates are indeed capable of finishing strong after a Mookie Betts Jersey fast start. Big Ben and company will try to do just that on Sunday, when the Steelers, who are undefeated this late in a season for the first time since 1978, head to Baltimore to take on the defending two-time defending AFC North champion ."We feel that we have a really good football team," Roethlisberger said. "We feel that it could be special. We're happy with where we are right now, but that's going to be a short-lived happine s because we know what's coming up next."