The Pittsburgh Steelers don’t play a pretty brand of football. It’s one of the reasons they’re 3-0 [Video]

PITTSBURGH — Editor’s note: The above video is from Sept. 23.

Mike Tomlin has spent the past few years almost gleefully leaning into an old-school approach that at times has seemed out of step with the modern NFL.

Part of this has been out of necessity. The Pittsburgh Steelers have spent most of the 2020s lacking the components — perhaps the coaching most of all — to build an offense that could keep pace with the teams they’ve been futilely chasing in the AFC.

So Tomlin did what he could to slow the game down. To gum it up with a defense and a thudding running game designed to eat up the clock and keep the Steelers competitive.

While it’s been just enough to scrape by — for all of the hand-wringing in Pittsburgh this decade, the Steelers have still made the playoffs three out of …