“I don’t care ,” Tomlin said, via the team’s website. “I’ll play them whenever they schedule us. We’ve got no control over the schedule. Our goal is to beat everybody, but specifically week to week, we get singly focused on this week’s opponent, and so I’d be making it up if I told you I cared about the schedule of when we face people. I don’t.”

The final play during the Pittsburgh Steelers' comeback 28–27 win over the Washington Commanders on Sunday sparked some controversy regarding what the Steelers planned to do on fourth down before Commanders rookie Jer'Zhan Newton committed a neutral zone infraction.

The Washington Commanders suffered a tough loss to a strong Pittsburgh Steelers team, dropping the matchup 28-27 to bring them to 7-3 on the season and just one game back of the Philadelphia Eagles for the top spot in the NFC East.