{"id":436102,"date":"2025-12-09T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/436102\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:58:14","slug":"bills-and-steelers-surge-back-up-the-board-eagles-and-colts-plummet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/436102\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills and Steelers surge back up the board; Eagles and Colts plummet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Down 10 points late, with the snow really piling up, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/josh-allen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Allen<\/a> and an opportunistic Bills defense dominated the final eight minutes with an incredible flourish against the scrappy Bengals, keeping Buffalo&#8217;s faint divisional hopes alive. The Bills will need to beat the well-rested Patriots on Sunday in Foxborough &#8212; and do more than that &#8212; to even harbor those thoughts, but it&#8217;s possible. Yet, I think this team remains dangerous as a wild card, if that&#8217;s the way it goes. With the Bengals, Ravens and Chiefs all falling off, and even the upstart Colts falling on hard times, you simply cannot count out an Allen-led group in the playoffs. I&#8217;m not ignoring Buffalo&#8217;s defensive limitations, nor am I looking away from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/james-cook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Cook<\/a>&#8216;s rising fumble total. But with Allen, the Bills nearly always have a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Down 10 points late, with the snow really piling up, Josh Allen and an opportunistic Bills defense dominated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":436103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[529,7140,6328,532,8995,8996,531,8997,1544,8998,8999,9000,9001,2505,9002,8017,3570,535,8986,9006,9003,8812,533,9004,4716,5287,1232,530,1105,1545,94785,9005,7149,62,3528,9007,67,132,68,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-436102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-baltimore-ravens","12":"tag-buffalo-bills","13":"tag-carolina-panthers","14":"tag-chicago-bears","15":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","16":"tag-cleveland-browns","17":"tag-dallas-cowboys","18":"tag-denver-broncos","19":"tag-detroit-lions","20":"tag-green-bay-packers","21":"tag-houston-texans","22":"tag-indianapolis-colts","23":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","24":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","25":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","26":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","27":"tag-los-angeles-rams","28":"tag-miami-dolphins","29":"tag-minnesota-vikings","30":"tag-new-england-patriots","31":"tag-new-orleans-saints","32":"tag-new-york-giants","33":"tag-new-york-jets","34":"tag-nfl","35":"tag-no-minute","36":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","37":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","38":"tag-power-rankings","39":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","40":"tag-seattle-seahawks","41":"tag-sports","42":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","43":"tag-tennessee-titans","44":"tag-united-states","45":"tag-unitedstates","46":"tag-us","47":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}