{"id":667033,"date":"2026-01-10T20:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/667033\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T20:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:52:13","slug":"pittsburgh-one-of-the-three-toughest-places-to-play-in-nfl-says-aqib-talib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/667033\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh One Of The ‘Three Toughest Places To Play’ In NFL, Says Aqib Talib"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers have an ugly playoff record in recent years. They haven\u2019t won a postseason game since the 2016 season. However, they\u2019re hosting a playoff game for the first time in five years.<\/a> While they lost their last postseason game in Pittsburgh, perhaps home-field advantage will be enough to fuel them to a win over the Houston Texans. Former NFL corner Aqib Talib knows that playing in Pittsburgh is no joke, especially on Monday nights.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this game was on Saturday or Sunday, I would\u2019ve picked the Texans,\u201d Talib said recently on The Arena podcast.<\/a> \u201cThis game is on Monday. Mike [Tomlin] don\u2019t lose on Monday night. It\u2019s juju. You catch Mike T on a Monday night, he\u2019s got a great Monday night speech. He don\u2019t fucking lose. It\u2019s gonna be nighttime.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s gonna be rocking. If we was to name the top three toughest places to play in the league, Pittsburgh be one of them. These young boys gotta go to Pittsburgh, see vet A-Rod [Aaron Rodgers]. A-Rod and Arthur Smith, I feel like they found something last game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talib is correct that Tomlin has never lost a home game on Monday night. That streak extends beyond him, too. The Steelers haven\u2019t lost in Pittsburgh on Monday since 1991.<\/a> Chuck Noll was the head coach that year.<\/p>\n

Also, Talib has experience dealing with the atmosphere at Heinz Field\/Acrisure Stadium. He was a key part of the 2015 Denver Broncos, who lost to the Steelers in Pittsburgh that year. That was the last game the Broncos lost that season, and while they later knocked the Steelers out of the playoffs, that game was played in Denver. Maybe things would\u2019ve been different if it had been in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

However, the Steelers haven\u2019t done a great job protecting their stadium in the postseason during Tomlin\u2019s tenure. They\u2019re 5-4 in Pittsburgh in the playoffs since Tomlin became their head coach in 2007. That includes a 1-3 record in their last four home playoff games.<\/p>\n

There are some other records that favor the Steelers, though. For instance, the Texans have never won a road playoff game. Also, their home stadium is a dome. They don\u2019t usually have to deal with the elements that will be prevail in Pittsburgh Monday night.<\/p>\n

Something will have to give this week. Either the Steelers will lose on Monday night or they\u2019ll finally win a playoff game. The Texans are a young team, with quarterback C.J. Stroud only in his third season. However, they\u2019ve also got the NFL\u2019s best defense. That unit could quickly silence the Pittsburgh crowd.<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers have an ugly playoff record in recent years. They haven\u2019t won a postseason game since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[12560,7,253,6,520,57,2360,426,82234],"class_list":["post-667033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-aqib-talib","tag-football","tag-houston-texans","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-pittsburghsteelers","tag-steelers","tag-the-arena"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115872789283977741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}