Any given season, any given month, any given game brings about ebbs and flows in the NFL. And as Payton Wilson showed Sunday, that can also be any given play.

The Steelers would prefer to never have a busted coverage that results in an 81-yard catch — “I’m gonna take that one; we were struggling with who was in the game, and I probably made a call that wasn’t simple enough on everybody, so that’s on me,” defensive coordinator Teryl Austin said Wednesday — but when you let something up, it helps to have Wilson to run someone down.

Wilson’s hustle to chase Jordan Addison from way behind and make a shoestring tackle to bring him down at the 1-yard line was teach tape in the film room. When coach Mike Tomlin breaks down situational football, how the clock can be a team’s best friend when it

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