Mike Tomlin agrees with frustrated Steelers fans booing - ESPN

PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin isn't immune to the chorus of boos that chased the Pittsburgh Steelers to the locker room after a blowout loss to Buffalo on Sunday.

If anything, the longest-tenured coach in the NFL felt the same way after watching his team get pushed around while losing for the fifth time in seven games.

«In general, I agree with them, from this perspective: Football is our game, we're in a sport entertainment business,» Tomlin said Tuesday. «And so if you root for the Steelers, entertaining them is winning. And so when you're not winning, it's not entertaining.»

And it hasn't been entertaining lately for Pittsburgh, which has looked like a first-place team only in the standings for the better part of the past two months. The angst inside Acrisure Stadium boiled over in the fourth quarter, when the crowd booed as the song «Renegade» by Styx — long a late-game staple designed to fire up the defense — began to play.

«If you've been in this business, you understand that, and so I respect it,» Tomlin said. «I share frustrations, I understand what makes this thing go, and winning is what makes this thing go.»

Tomlin wasn't the only one on the Steelers' sideline whose frustrations bubbled over as the Bills piled up 249 yards rushing and held the ball for nearly 42 minutes.

Longtime defensive captain Cam Heyward drew a flag for taunting Bills quarterback Josh Allen after a third-quarter touchdown pass to Keon Coleman put Buffalo up 16-7, though Heyward later said he was responding to an incident earlier in the game in which Heyward claimed Allen intentionally kneed him in the groin.

Pittsburgh backup defensive lineman Esezi Otomewo drew an unnecessary roughness call in the final minutes to help extend a game-sealing