Mike Tomlin is fine with the Pittsburgh Steelers' first loss of the season because he doesn't believe his team deserved to beat the Washington Football Team on Monday night.

"I live by the coaching creed, 'If you can't get a yard, you don't deserve to win,'" Tomlin said. "That was the case for us in this game. We had several sequences where we had an opportunity if we gained a yard, it was significant in terms of the development of the outcome of the game, but we were unsuccessful."

Averaging just 1.5 yards per carry, the Steelers had only 21 rushing yards in the loss.

"If you can't get a yard in our game, you don't deserve to win," Tomlin said. "That's the nuts and bolts elements of football, the physicality element of football. We didn't meet that challenge, so we have some work to do in that area."