Mike Tomlin didn’t bear witness to his team nearly losing out on a playoff spot late Sunday night.

As the country watched the Chargers and Raiders nearly tie on “Sunday Night Football” – a scenario that would have booted Pittsburgh from the playoffs – the Steelers coach was fast asleep, missing Daniel Carlson’s game-winning field goal.

“I dozed off,” Tomlin told reporters on Tuesday. “I knew I had a workday waiting on me, or I assumed that I had a workday waiting on me. I think at one point [the Raiders] were up by 15, and that number made you feel somewhat comfortable.

“I’m probably better off not having watched it.”

The Chargers and Raiders went into overtime tied at 29 after Justin Herbert led a touchdown drive to tie the game, converting a fourth-and-21 to score. The two teams then traded field goals in OT and looked to be headed for an improbable tie before Chargers coach Brandon Staley called a late timeout, giving Vegas enough time to get in position for the game-winning field goal.

Steelers wideout Ray-Ray McCloud also missed the ending live, because he kept rewinding the game.

“My little brother called me,” McCloud told reporters. “He was like, ‘It’s rigged, bro. It’s rigged.’ Then he called me back and was like, ‘You’re good, you’re good.’

“I was like, ‘They made it?’ So when I watched it personally, I already knew they had made it. It was definitely a relief. It was a fun game.”

The Steelers came into Sunday needing the Jaguars to beat the Colts and the Raiders and Chargers to avoid a tie to make the playoffs. They got both results, and beat the Ravens in overtime to set up a wild-card matchup with the Chiefs on Sunday — a team that beat them 36-10 just a few weeks ago.

“I don’t know how much you learn from it, to be quite honest with you,” Tomlin said. “They smashed us so definitively. More than anything, it’s like a reboot.”