Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Patrick Peterson, left, celebrates his interception with cornerback Desmond King II during an NFL football game against the Las Vegas Raiders Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, in Las Vegas.PITTSBURGH — Lamar Jackson can dazzle with his legs one play and drop dimes with his right arm the next.For all the electricity the Baltimore Ravens quarterback provides on a seemingly weekly basis, things tend to get sideways when he’s on one side of the line of scrimmage and T.J.
While he promised “changes” in the aftermath, Tomlin’s only real tweak was to do something he was probably going to do anyway: have his players practice in pads for the first time in a few weeks in hopes of helping them hit the reset button. “The defense gives us the look for me to run, or my number’s called, and whatever it’s going to take for us to get in the end zone, I’m going to do it,” Jackson said. “I’m going to try to do it at least 100 miles per hour. If the defense gives us that look, that’s what it’ll be.”Pittsburgh’s offense was expected to take significant strides forward after a promising preseason. It hasn’t happened.
“I think we all know that we’ve got to get better if we want to be where we want to be at,” Harris said. “We want to be at the mentality we were last year against the Ravens and this is a good time to do it.”Baltimore already has road victories over Cincinnati and Cleveland. A win over the Steelers this week would give the Ravens a road sweep of the AFC North, something they’ve done only twice since the current alignment of divisions began in 2002.