Ron Rivera: Upset win over Steelers felt like 'euphoria'

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Ron Rivera was on cloud nine following the Washington Football Team's upset win over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Washington ended Pittsburgh's undefeated run at 11 games on Monday evening and the team's head coach described the mood in the locker room as "euphoria," Nicki Jhabvala of the Washington Post reports.

"It's up there (among the best wins of my career)," Rivera told reporters following the game, according to WUSA9's Darren M. Haynes. "Despite some of the decisions I made today, they played their asses off.

"This really does rank up there, just because ... who we beat, we beat them in Pittsburgh. That's one of the storied franchises as well in this league. So to come in and win, I thought that was big for our guys. I'm real proud of them."

Thanks to a stingy defensive effort and a late field goal from Dustin Hopkins, Washington moves to 5-7 on the campaign and into a tie atop the NFC East with the New York Giants.

The victory was the organization's third in a row, having dropped seven of its previous eight games before the streak.

"These guys deserve it," Rivera said, via ESPN's John Keim. "We've been down for such a long time ... trying to build ourselves and build up."

Rivera's squad has a road date with the San Francisco 49ers scheduled for Week 14.