Strength of schedule talk should always be taken with a healthy serving of salt. Especially when we are talking about strength of schedule in April. Because the pre-season strength of schedule is determined based on the winning percentage of the opponents a team will face from their prior season, it only goes so far in predicting how strong an opponent they will be in the upcoming year.
We already knew what the Pittsburgh Steelers’ strength of schedule was as soon as the regular season ended, because we knew by then not only every team they would face but also what their end-of-season record would be.