Mike Tomlin has kicked a lot more tail than the other way around in his 19 NFL seasons, but he did deliver a quality sound bite the other day when asked about his horrible Thursday night road record, which stands at 2-9 going into Cincinnati.

That includes six straight Thursday night losses within the AFC North.

“I'm only concerned about 2025,” Tomlin said. “I’ve gotten my ass kicked in a lot of ways over the last 19 years.”

It says here the streak ends emphatically Thursday night at Paycor Stadium. I’m thinking the “escaloser” might be firing by the middle of the third quarter (that is the outdoor escalator Bengals fans have so often ridden in defeat after games — or during them, as the case may be — against the Steelers).

The Bengals stink. It seems like a long time ago that quarterb

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