PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aaron Rodgers was smiling. But he wasn’t kidding.

Not long after a 27-22 victory over Baltimore on Sunday in which the Pittsburgh Steelers somehow pulled themselves back from the brink, their future Hall of Fame quarterback did what he’s done in his unique (if occasionally self-serving) way over and over through the years.

He stared at the elephant in the room, reached out, and shook its hand.

“Maybe you guys will shut the hell up for a week,” Rodgers said after the Steelers wrested back control of the AFC North with three hours of passionate if not always precise football that likely slowed — but hardly stopped — speculation about coach Mike Tomlin’s long-term future in Pittsburgh.

This is what Tomlin teams do, what they have done really, throughout his 19 years with

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