PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin isn’t much on aesthetics.

The Pittsburgh Steelers coach knows his team hasn’t played particularly well over the first month of the season.

The offense remains a work in progress behind Aaron Rodgers, who has played steadily if not spectacularly. The defense is banged up and uncharacteristically gettable as a result.

Yet as the team flew back across the Atlantic on Sunday night following a closer-than-it-had-to-be 24-21 victory over Minnesota in the first regular-season game in Dublin, Ireland, Pittsburgh found itself atop an AFC North that doesn’t look as formidable as it did four weeks ago.

Cincinnati will be without Joe Burrow indefinitely. Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens are reeling. Joe Flacco and the Cleveland Browns have yet to reach 20 points

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