The Pittsburgh Steelers have some very nasty habits as a football team, but perhaps none is worse than their proclivity towards ignoring lesser opponents. They spent the entire 2017 season utterly fixated on the New England Patriots to the degree that even after losing 30-9 to the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 5, they still refused to take them seriously in the Divisional Round of the playoffs. That would be their undoing, as the Jaguars defeated them 45-42 in that round to earn the matchup with the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game that the Steelers had spent all season preparing for.

Now the Jaguars certainly have the Steelers' attention. The trick will be making sure that they don't command too much of it. Art Rooney II made a point in saying to assembled reporters, including Mike Prisuta, that the Steelers' "real nemesis this year was probably the Jaguars," and that the team "can’t go into next year saying, ‘We gotta worry about the Jaguars.’”

The Jaguars are just one team. As both teams won their divisions in 2017, they will play each other in the 2018 regular season. But that game is only one of 16. The Steelers' goal next season won't be to beat the Jaguars just as it wasn't to beat the Patriots this season. The goal is to win the Super Bowl. Every team they play is just another opponent in front of them. Nothing is special about any of them. If the Steelers get too focused on beating a single team, they'll find themselves upset by a different one just as they did in 2017.

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