The Pittsburgh Steelers continue to rack up wins. We continue to roll into the strange.

– For the first time in the history of the Steelers-Ravens rivalry, a team won without scoring a touchdown. Pittsburgh defeated Baltimore 18-16 thanks to six Chris Boswell field goals.

– It is the twelfth time in franchise history that the Steelers have won a regular season game without a touchdown and fourth under Mike Tomlin (who also has such a playoff victory). The others prior to this season were in 2008 against the Los Angeles Chargers (where the officials took away a Troy Polamalu touchdown on the final play) and the 3-0 Mud Bowl in 2007 against the Miami Dolphins. In the postseason, they defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 18-16 in the 2016 AFC Divisional Round.

– Pittsburgh is the first team to win multiple games in a season without scoring a touchdown since the 2016 Los Angeles Rams, who defeated the Seattle Seahawks 9-3 and the New York Jets 9-6 that year.

– Since 2007 and including the playoffs, the Steelers are 5-10 in games where they don’t score a touchdown. That’s a winning percentage of .333.

The rest of the NFL during that period? 39-544-1. A winning percentage of .068. Pittsburgh has won five times as many games as the rest of the league. Incredible.

– Let’s stick with that 18-16 score. Including Sunday’s game and the playoffs, there have been nine 18-16 games in NFL history. Four of those nine, 44 percent, involved the Steelers, including the last three. The Steelers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 18-16 in the aforementioned playoff game and 18-16 the year before in the Wild Card game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Pittsburgh also lost its very first game 18-16, falling to the Cleveland Browns in 1976.

– Facing impressive quarterbacks Jayden Daniels and Lamar Jackson over the past two weeks, Pittsburgh’s defense has only allowed the following:

– Completion rate of 49.2 percent
– 6.1 YPA
– 1 TD
– 67.3 QB rating

There is also one interception.

Keep in mind that Daniels entered the game with a QB rating of 106.7, while Jackson entered Sunday at 123.2.

– One more on QB rating. Jackson entered Sunday with a QB rating above 100 for eight straight games, tied for the third-longest single-season streak ever. He finished Sunday with a QB rating of 66.1, a season low and his worst rating since… Week 5 against the Steelers last year (65.2).

You’d have to go back more than two years to Week 4 of 2022 to find his last game with a lower quarterback rating, a 63.0 in a loss to the Buffalo Bills.

– Steelers WR George Pickens finished Sunday with eight receptions. That’s the most he’s had in an NFL game. It’s the most receptions he’s had in a game since November 2020 when he played at Georgia, recording eight in a win over Mississippi State. The only game he has ever logged more came in 2019, when he scored 12 against Baylor.

– Chris Boswell is on pace to finish 2024 with 49 field goals, which would obliterate the NFL single-season record of 44 set by David Akers in 2011.

– Boswell has now made 39 career field goals of more than 50 yards. He has accounted for 59.1 percent of all field goals of more than 50 yards made in franchise history, 39 of 66. No one else has more than eight.

He has made 83.0 percent of his field goals from more than 50 yards (39 of 47).

To put that in perspective, Boswell’s overall field goal percentage is 88.1, fifth-most in NFL history. If you were to take just his 50+ yards percentage and rank it in NFL history among all kicks, he would rank 41st. That’s mind-boggling for him as the basis for a top-41 accurate kicker just now beyond its range of more than 50 meters.

For further perspective, his 50-plus field goal percentage is better than the career percentage of Jeff Reed, Brandon McManus, Mason Crosby, David Akers, Sebastian Janikowski and Jason Elam. And everyone else who isn’t in the top 40 ahead of him.

– P Corliss Waitman also shone on Sunday. He kicked four times, with an average of 56.5 meters. It is the second-highest average by a Steelers punter with at least four punts in franchise history, behind only Bobby Joe Green’s 57.5-yard average in a 1960 win over the Cleveland Browns.

– With Sunday’s performance, Waitman has 47.2 yards per punt this season. If true, it will be a Pittsburgh single-season record. Green’s 47.0-yard remains the high watermark set all the way back in 1961.

– Pittsburgh finished 4 of 16 in third place on Sunday. It is the 123rd game in history with at least 16 third-down attempts in a game. The only time the Steelers converted fewer was in 2008, when they went 3-for-16 in a win over the Dallas Cowboys.

This is the fifth time Pittsburgh has converted just four times. But the Steelers are 4-2 in games with this ugly conversion rate, so at least there’s that.

– Pittsburgh played exactly 20 more plays than Baltimore (74 to 54). But the Ravens averaged exactly two more yards than the Steelers (6.1 to 4.1).

– The Steelers had possession of the ball for 36:22 against the Ravens. Excluding overtime games, it’s the best TOP Pittsburgh has had against Baltimore since 2018 and the fourth-best score ever.

Pittsburgh is 5-0 against the Ravens when it has the ball for at least 36 minutes.

– Pittsburgh has allowed just 13 third-quarter points this season. And over the past four games, the Steelers have given up just 28 second-half points, an average of seven per game. Pretty incredible.