My final Pittsburgh Steelers thoughts as the team heads west to face the Los Angeles Chargers in Sunday Night Football at SoFi Stadium.
1. THE TRIP WEST IS NOT THAT BIG A CHALLENGE
The general wisdom is that the Steelers don’t do well when they head west. That is partly based on a five game losing streak from 2006 to 2013. Pittsburgh’s overall record playing in the Pacific Time Zone is 12-15 under head coaches Bill Cowher and Mike Tomlin. In Tomlin’s tenure alone, the team is 6-7. The idea that the Steelers struggle in a west coast time zone is probably more perception than truth.