{"id":374113,"date":"2025-12-28T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/374113\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:27:08","slug":"ravens-rooting-for-browns-as-afc-north-hangs-in-the-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/374113\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens Rooting for Browns as AFC North Hangs in the Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ravens and Browns are AFC North enemies, but they&#8217;ll be on the same team Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>With the Ravens&#8217; 41-24 win in Green Bay, they&#8217;re still alive in the AFC North race. If the Browns beat the Steelers on Sunday in Cleveland, it will force a winner-take-all game next week in Pittsburgh between the Ravens and Steelers. If not, the Ravens are eliminated from the playoffs for the first time since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to pray as soon as I get on the plane, when I get home in the morning, when I wake up,&#8221; running back Derrick Henry said after running for four touchdowns and 216 yards in Lambeau Field. &#8220;Hopefully, we get blessed for the opportunity to have to play for something Week 18.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Huntley, who had a clutch performance stepping in for injured Lamar Jackson (back contusion) to beat the Packers, couldn&#8217;t wait to get on the phone with his former Browns teammate Shedeur Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to make it out of here, so I can call Shedeur really quick and make sure he gets it done,&#8221; Huntley said with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only one spot still up for grabs in the AFC playoffs and it&#8217;s between the Ravens and Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>While the Steelers (9-7) are certainly the favorite on paper against the Browns (3-12), there&#8217;s reason for hope.<\/p>\n<p>The Browns have won the past three games against the Steelers in Cleveland. Myles Garrett is going for the all-time single-season sack record. The Steelers are playing without top receiver DK Metcalf, who is serving a two-game suspension for a scuffle with a fan last week, and star pass rusher T.J. Watt.<\/p>\n<p>In a celebratory Ravens locker room in Green Bay, Head Coach John Harbaugh invited players over to his house to watch the game on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll probably be watching that game pretty closely, but it&#8217;s out of our control,&#8221; Harbaugh said. &#8220;We understand that. We did our part, and we have another game next week that we intend to go win, regardless of what happens, and that&#8217;s our job. That&#8217;s what our guys will be thinking about.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ravens and Browns are AFC North enemies, but they&#8217;ll be on the same team Sunday. With the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[180182,180183,171595,48331,48806,257,2593,17263,11178,99],"class_list":["post-374113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2025-week-17","tag-2025-week-17-news","tag-baltimore-ravens-at-green-bay-packers-2025-reg-17","tag-gameday","tag-gameday-news","tag-general","tag-homepage-latest-headlines","tag-inline-news","tag-ryan-mink","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}