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Ravens vs Steelers about to kickoff .. feels kinda nice to not worry about it

It makes me sick thinking the Steelers are going to get in by playing a Ravens team of back ups.

7-0 Pittsburgh

Ravens look disinterested in this game.

They need a lot of help beyond beating the Ravens. Need Jags to lose and a tie between Texans and Colts (highly unlikely), I believe.

Here are the ways they can get in:

Steelers win and a Colts-Texans tie
Steelers win and Buffalo loss
Steelers win and a Jaguars loss/tie
Steelers tie and Colts and Texans do not tie and Jaguars lose
(Even with a Steelers loss) Colts and Texans do not tie, Jaguars lose and Broncos win

Yessss !!

7 -7

Steelers trying to make it 10-7 here at half

and Rudolph fumbles on cue

Ravens D playing to win !!

This game is a rock fight

I'd love to see 3 AFC North teams in the playoffs.

Why?

Huntley is butt

You had one job Ravens.

To prove it's the toughest division in the NFL. And to see the steelers get their clock cleaned in the first round.

They need to change the name of that team from the “Ravens” to “Lamar.”

One of those games where if you don’t have to play you don’t want to. It looks nasty out there

The amount that that have owned us…I don’t want to see the stoolers anywhere NEAR the playoffs.

I’m pissed.

Frickin rudolf has the hot hand.

The loss of watt is pretty huge but I don’t want anything to do with those bastages right now.

They don't scare me in the least. But we won't play them even if they make it. They'll be one and done.

Colts/Texans will come right down to it ... Both teams could cause us problems for different reasons.

Stroud has the ability to really take the top off a defense ... and the Colts run game can shorten the game and their RPO stuff caused us fits

I don’t understand why the Colts didn’t QB sneak it there at the end. It’s weird how some teams seem immune to that play.

I understand that the Browns need to focus on playing sound football and not making mistakes. But they must also focus on their opponents. Your game plan should always focus on finding and exploiting your opponents weaknesses.

Looks like we’re going through the Texans.

That was my worst case scenario.

They’re celebrating over at the steeler forum.

I am confident in browns but I really don't want to see a texans team that is healthy now and looking for revenge after qe embarrassed them in the first round

If jags win are the Steelers in no matter what happens in bills game?

Yup. Jags lose, stoolers are in.

C’mon JAGS!!!!

jags make it a one score game...

jags got an intercept and drove it down to Tenn 1 on 11 plays. Lawrence tried to sneak it in on a 4th and 1 and was stopped. Ten ball at their own 1 with 7 minutes left

Shpuld have kicked fg had plenty of time left

My theory is they don't want to see us. In the end, we have to beat whoever is there, so it doesn't really matter.

It's over; jags got the ball back-
Missed Ridley on a bomb and overthrew Engram who was covered on 4th down.
Titans taking the knee

Stoolers in.

I have a bad feeling about that.

I don't think the Steelers will be much competition for anyone this year, but I am so happy they made it in

Add Doug Pederson to the list of HC's that might get canned tomorrow.

I have a horrible feeling about the post season that I am trying very hard to suppress.

Stroud is going to be facing an excellent defensive backfield. Plus the push up front. I believe our defense can tame him a little, it will be important to not turnover the ball, and to score frequently.

worst case scenario for our team. Don't like the idea of facing Stroud and that offense in a dome. But, what's done is done

Possibly. But, THEY might be saying the same thing.

Quite the gauntlet for the Browns

Round 1 - Stroud/Texans
Round 2 - Likely Ravens
Round 3 - Bills/Dolphins/Chiefs
SB - NFC's Best

Welcome to the playoffs baby!

Welp. You gotta beat the best in the playoffs. That’s true every year.

You’re forgetting about the stoolers. And I think that’s a mistake.

I don't think Pittsburg got much a shot to make it to the AFC Championship, but it's not impossible. They do have witchcraft on their side

To be the best you gotta beat the best.

And well, this is Cleveland. Nothing is ever easy for us, and even if it was we would make it tough.

Texans don’t stand a chance against us. Flac ‘em.

I quit being scared about mid season. We're going in there rested and as healthy as we can hope for.

Dolphins up 7-0 .. very rollercoaster game so far

7-7 now

I'm sticking with my mantra. No expectations in the post-season.

This team has pleasantly surprised me all season long. Strafed by a ridiculous number of injuries, they've just kept going. And winning.
2-game win streak, followed by a 3-game win streak, followed by a 4-game win streak. Only once this season did they suffer a losing streak, and that was only 2 games (the 2-game swing out west). That is the record of a legitimate playoff team- one that deserves to be here as much as any other.

It may seem crazy to other Dawgs, but I don't care who's up next on the schedule.
I've adopted this team's approach, based on Coach Stef's philosophy: "Go out there, and get us to 1-0."

A team that is:
decimated by injuries
overcomes those injuries
lives the 1-0 philosophy all year

earns its way to the post-season.
That team is uniquely positioned to thrive in a one-and-done atmosphere. For them, the "Second Season" should feel virtually indistinguishable from the reg season. In short: they've treated every game this season like a playoff game. Advantage: the team with more 1 & done experience.

For as long as this coaster rolls, I'm 100% down with whatever comes next. No NFL team worries me v. CLE 2023.
What a blast this season continues to be.

Bring on whatever's next. I lived through 1-31. This is so much better.

All I care about right now is the Texans. Anything else is just noise. I'm betting Stefanski has the team thinking the same way.

What you're describing is "being a Browns fan".

:-p

Perfectly described, IMO. I've run out of that scared/stressed feeling.

Bad look for the Fins fans by the way to basically have a home game crowd for Buffalo last night.

miami/philly... regular season darlings and one and done playoff teams.. they don't scare anyone. I would much rather play Miami and buffalo.

I'd rather play Miami than Houston

If I were to rank the order of possible AFC opponents in terms of who I'd WANT to play:

1. Miami
2. Pittsburgh
3. Kansas City
4. Houston
5. Buffalo
6. Baltimore

Baker hit his incentive bonus of 1 million dollars yesterday for making the playoffs.

No Tom Brady? No problem: Baker Mayfield pockets $1m bonus after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers cruise to victory over the Carolina Panthers to win the NFC South

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/n...mayfield-bonus-buccaneers-nfc-south.html

I wouldn't want him back but I'm glad to see he's doing well.

All I want is for Buffalo to completely decimate the Steelers. I am constantly surrounded by them, and I am sick of them. Send them home beat both mentally and physically

Tomlin is the luckiest coach ever… I’m still trying to figure out how he backed them into the playoffs after the meltdown they had when we beat them.

You should be rooting for them to upset the Bills, same for Dolphins.

If both win, andddddd the Browns win this week, they would host the Dolphins the following week.

Look, I don't like Tomlin or the Steelers. But when you do what he's managed to do for 17 seasons it isn't luck. When you can get your team to take things one game at a time, what happened last week doesn't matter. The Browns beat the 49'ers and Ravens too and look where they're at. That's not luck.

I used to think this, but I've slowly come around to respecting Tomlin as that leader/executive type coach. I think between them filling their roster with plenty of those solid-if-unspectacular lunchpail type players and him keeping a steady hand at the helm, they're able to scrape together these winning seasons when plenty of other teams (even more talented ones) would crumble down the stretch.

I'm also excited about them doing just enough to not be able to secure that turnaround draft pick.