Mike Tomlin never shies away from what’s in front of him. And he’s not about to now. The NFL backloaded the Pittsburgh Steelers’ schedule with six divisional games in eight weeks, but in typical Tomlin fashion, he doesn’t care.
“I don’t care,” Tomlin said in his weekly press conference. “I’ll play them whenever they schedule us. We’ve got no control over the schedule. Our goal is to beat everybody, but specifically week to week, we get singly focused on this week’s opponent, and so I’d be making it up if I told you I cared about the schedule of when we face people. I don’t.”
Pittsburgh’s brutal slate begins with the vaunted Baltimore Ravens this Sunday, Week 11. Three more divisional games follow with games at the Cleveland Browns, at the Cincinnati Bengals and back home to finish their Browns series.
In the final three weeks of the season, the Steelers have the Ravens in Baltimore, a home matchup with the Kansas City Chiefs on Christmas Day and, finally, stay at Acrisure Stadium to finish the season against the Bengals.
