Live from Delaware, it’s Saturday Night! I, NAS204PSU, am here at BTSC to bring you this Saturday Night Open Thread (aka SNOT). Happy New Year! We can be the “Kings in the North” if we can beat the Ravens tomorrow night and start 2026 1-0, or we can lose and start the offseason immediately. Einstein […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
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The Pittsburgh Steelers enter the final week of the regular season in a familiar position: overlooked by oddsmakers against the Ravens. Opening as 3.5-point underdogs according to multiple sportsbooks, including FanDuel, the Steelers once again find themselves counted out ahead of a high-stakes clash. History suggests that may be a mistake. Under head coach Mike […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
| 18 days ago
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Week 18 in the National Football League kicks off in just under half an hour or so, and we’re getting two games with playoff implications on this Saturday afternoon and evening. The early game of this doubleheader gets underway from Tampa at 3:30 PM Central time, and it will feature the Carolina Panthers visiting the […]
From Daily Norseman
| 18 days ago
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The future of the Pittsburgh Steelers may hinge on the result of 60 minutes of football on Sunday night for the AFC North championship. The Steelers battle the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday Night Football, 8:20 p.m. on NBC in a showdown at Acrisure Stadium with the winner going to the playoffs. The loser goes home. […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
| 18 days ago
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Will the Steelers really fire Mike Tomlin this year? Sports Illustrated senior NFL writer Albert Breer doesn’t think so. But if they do, he mentioned a name to keep in mind for the job in a Friday column: Rams defensive coordinator Chris Shula. “The Steelers, Ravens and Bills have generated conversation in recent weeks,” Breer […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
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The Pittsburgh Steelers continue to be included in rumors regarding a new head coach. If they lose to the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, they will have successfully blown a three-game lead in the AFC North and missed the postseason, making it nine years since their last playoff win. In light of that possibility, many upcoming […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
| 18 days ago
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The Pittsburgh Steelers could see their season end on Sunday should they lose to the Baltimore Ravens and choke away the AFC North after holding a three-game lead over Baltimore earlier in the season. No matter the result, the Steelers will have questions surrounding the quarterback position for the third straight offseason. Aaron Rodgers is […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
| 18 days ago
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Every year, I’m astonished by how quickly the NFL season goes by. We’ve already reached the end of the 2025 NFL season, and the Pittsburgh Steelers will be playing in the final game of the year on Sunday night against the Baltimore Ravens with the division on the line. With that said, get your questions […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
| 18 days ago
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The Baltimore Ravens took Lamar Jackson off their Week 18 injury report after the star quarterback completed his first full week of practice since Week 10. Jackson suffered a back contusion in Week 16, sidelining him all of last week. The team emphasized the severity of the injury last week, raising concern about Jackson’s status […]
From Baltimore Beatdown
| 19 days ago
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The Steelers unveiled one of their cleanest injury reports of the year ahead of the team’s regular season finale against the Baltimore Ravens. On Friday, the Steelers announced that the team has no injury designations ahead of Sunday’s kickoff. Every player on the report practiced in full — including T.J. Watt — with the exception […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
| 19 days ago
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The Cleveland Browns will close the season on Sunday when they take on the Cincinnati Bengals. The Browns avoided their first winless season in the AFC North Division since 2017 with last weekend’s victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. They now need a win on Sunday to avoid being swept by the Bengals for the second […]
From Dawgs By Nature
| 19 days ago
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Running back Kenneth Gainwell has been voted as the Steelers MVP for the 2025 season by his teammates, Pittsburgh announced Friday. Gainwell signed a one-year, $1.79-million deal with the Steelers over the offseason, without many high expectations from the media entering the season. However, over the course of 2025 he emerged as one of the […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
| 19 days ago
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The Pittsburgh Steelers are in real danger of losing one of their top front office members this offseason. According to Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated, Steelers Assistant General Manager Andy Weidl is a name to watch to take one of the available general manager jobs across the NFL. “Another product of the Ozzie Newsome School […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
| 19 days ago
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Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Steelers fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Heading into Week 18, we want to know how you’re feeling after watching the team so […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
| 19 days ago
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Cleveland Browns (4-12) If the Browns were going to pull off an upset last week, the formula was clear: make the game ugly and dominate defensively. That’s exactly what they did in their 13-6 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. After jumping out to a 10-0 lead in the first quarter, the Browns sputtered offensively for […]
From Baltimore Beatdown
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The Baltimore Ravens upgraded five players on their Thursday injury report, but linebacker Roquan Smith remains a limited participant. Lamar Jackson was a full participant for the second day in a row. He said after practice that he would “100%” play in Pittsburgh on Sunday. Starting offensive linemen Ronnie Stanley and Andrew Vorhees were both […]
From Baltimore Beatdown
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No, the NFL playoff field isn’t quite finalized yet. However, the last two spots come down to head-to-head, win-and-in games between the Panthers and Bucs in the NFC South and the Ravens and Steelers in the AFC North. For those teams, the playoffs start this weekend, and those rosters include four Tar Heels. We’ll start […]
From Tar Heel Blog
| 20 days ago
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Instead of the division being clinched in Week 16, the AFC North will now come down to a Sunday Night Football showdown in the final week of the season. Pittsburgh Steelers (9-7) The Pittsburgh Steelers could have clinched the division with a win against the Browns in Week 17, but their offense collapsed in a […]
From Baltimore Beatdown
| 21 days ago
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We are down to the final week of the NFL regular season. Several players have been put on the shelf for injuries and are allready done for the 2025 season, but a few others will play huge games in early 2026 with their playoff lives on the future. The Ravens and Steelers will meet to […]
From The Daily Gopher
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Another year of Hall of Fame eligibility will end without a gold jacket for former Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward, who wasn’t among the list of 15 modern-era finalists announced by the hall Tuesday morning. Ward has yet to be a finalist in any year he’s been eligible. However, it is a loaded class for […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
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The Steelers worked out six players on Tuesday, per KPRC2’s Aaron Wilson and the NFL transaction sheet. The tryouts were defensive backs Zy Alexander, Evan Holm, Makari Paige, Doneiko Slaughter, and J.T. Woods, as well as tight end Jaheim Bell. Woods has the highest draft pedigree of the bunch as a 2022 third-round pick by […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
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The Pittsburgh Steelers are facing a win and you’re in situation to make or miss the playoffs. The winner-take-all game was preventable. A victory over the 3-12 Cleveland Browns would have clinched the AFC North for the first time since 2020 and allowed the Steelers to rest their veteran and injured starters. It’s not the […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
| 21 days ago
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The Ravens opened as 3.5-point road favorites for their Week 18 matchup against the Steelers. This continues a pattern for the Ravens this season. They were favored in their first six games on the road, losing the first two to the Chiefs and the Bills before winning their next four, albeit against losing teams. They […]
From Baltimore Beatdown
| 22 days ago
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The Cleveland Browns’ defense had one of its best games of the season against the Steelers in a 13-6 win, not allowing a touchdown. They allowed 291 yards of offense, but the key stats were these: Pittsburgh was 3-of-15 (20%) on third down and 0-of-3 (0%) on fourth down. Below, we analyze the snap counts […]
From Dawgs By Nature
| 22 days ago
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Pittsburgh Steelers edge rusher T.J. Watt has not played since early December, but may be in line to return to the field this week. The 2021 Defensive Player of the Year suffered a collapsed lung the week following Pittsburgh’s defeat of Baltimore. A limited participant in three practices last week, the star sat out his […]
From Behind the Steel Curtain
| 22 days ago
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