A nearly two decade time together in the league didn’t have Mike Tomlin ready for Joe Flacco the first time around in 2025. Virally upset after the Cleveland Browns dealt Flacco to the Cincinnati Bengals days before the Pittsburgh Steelers saw him, Tomlin feels more confident in the plan of attack the second time around. Even though this is nearly the 30th time Tomlin has faced him.
“I didn’t think we had a large enough body of work to really get a feel for what we were gonna get,” Tomlin told Bob Pompeani during Tomlin’s weekly show on the team’s YouTube channel.