One way to view the entirety of an NFL season is by quarters, and in that way it can be analogous to an actual game. Because an NFL regular season now includes 17 games, which isn’t cleanly divisible by four, some minor fudging of the numbers is necessary, but it still can provide a workable picture of a particular team’s development during the course of the journey.
Four weeks/games ago, the Steelers were 6-3 and sitting pretty coming off a win over Green Bay at Acrisure Stadium on Nov. 12. For them, the definition of sitting pretty was being a half-game behind AFC North leading Baltimore, owners of a tiebreaker advantage over 6-3 Cleveland, and one-game ahead of the 5-4
