\n 2. Split with the Patriots\/Packers and get some help.<\/p>\n
The Ravens can lose one of their next two games and still get into the dance.<\/p>\n
If the Steelers lose to the Lions or Browns, the Ravens can fall to the Patriots or Packers (doesn’t matter which one).<\/p>\n
The Steelers and Lions play at 4:25 p.m. on Sunday. If Pittsburgh loses, the Ravens will take the field Sunday night with a golden opportunity. A win over the Patriots would force a Week 18 battle in Pittsburgh for the division crown.<\/p>\n
That would also mean the following week’s game in Green Bay would be meaningless in terms of the stakes for the AFC North race. Any result would still mean a Week 18 win-or-go-home game for the Ravens and Steelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. Split with the Patriots\/Packers and get some help. The Ravens can lose one of their next two…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":451244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[207238,207239,834,10013,10014,14865,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-451243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2025-week-16","9":"tag-2025-week-16-news","10":"tag-general","11":"tag-homepage-latest-headlines","12":"tag-inline-news","13":"tag-ryan-mink","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115730181325218989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451243","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=451243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}