{"id":67773,"date":"2025-12-22T19:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67773\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T19:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:18:06","slug":"steelers-on-cusp-of-afc-north-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67773\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers on cusp of AFC North title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Steelers have come a long way in not a lot of time since fans were calling for the team to fire coach Mike Tomlin.That happened Nov. 30 in a 26-7 home loss to the Buffalo Bills.Since then, the Steelers have won three straight games and are on the cusp of clinching a division title.With two weeks to go in the regular season, here&#8217;s what the Steelers need to happen:If the Ravens lose Saturday night in Green Bay, the Steelers clinch the AFC North.  The results of Pittsburgh&#8217;s final two games won&#8217;t matter.If the Ravens win Saturday, the Steelers still have a chance to clinch this week.  A win Sunday in Cleveland would also punch Pittsburgh&#8217;s ticket to the postseason.If nothing goes the Steelers&#8217; way this weekend, the Ravens win and the Steelers lose, it will come down to week 18 when they play head-to-head at Acrisure Stadium.  The date and time of that game will be announced after week 17 games are complete.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers have come a long way in not a lot of time since fans were calling for the team to fire coach Mike Tomlin.<\/p>\n<p>That happened Nov. 30 in a 26-7 home loss to the Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the Steelers have won three straight games and are on the cusp of clinching a division title.<\/p>\n<p>With two weeks to go in the regular season, here&#8217;s what the Steelers need to happen:<\/p>\n<p>If the Ravens lose Saturday night in Green Bay, the Steelers clinch the AFC North.  The results of Pittsburgh&#8217;s final two games won&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>If the Ravens win Saturday, the Steelers still have a chance to clinch this week.  A win Sunday in Cleveland would also punch Pittsburgh&#8217;s ticket to the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing goes the Steelers&#8217; way this weekend, the Ravens win and the Steelers lose, it will come down to week 18 when they play head-to-head at Acrisure Stadium. <\/p>\n<p> The date and time of that game will be announced after week 17 games are complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers have come a long way in not a lot of time since fans were calling for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4701,35813,4916,35819,4914,35810,35817,11944,35815,7405,73,75,74,1833,35811,35816,2448,3622,1829,35814,35812,526,5865,2832,35818],"class_list":["post-67773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-afc-north","tag-afc-north-title","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-brink","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-clinch","tag-cusp","tag-green-bay","tag-long-way","tag-mike-tomlin","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-playoff-push","tag-ravens-win-saturday","tag-saturday-night","tag-steeler","tag-steelers","tag-straight-game","tag-three-straight-win","tag-time","tag-week","tag-weekend","tag-win-sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}