{"id":489972,"date":"2026-01-03T18:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489972\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:09:10","slug":"ravens-playoff-matchup-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489972\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens\u2019 Playoff Matchup Scenarios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texans would land in the No. 5 seed with a win over the Colts and a Jaguars win over the Titans, <strong>or<\/strong> a loss, a Bills loss to the Jets, and a Chargers loss to the Broncos.<\/p>\n<p>If one of those scenarios plays out, the Texans would make their second trip to M&amp;T Bank Stadium this season after crushing an injury-ravaged Ravens team, 44-10, in Week 5. Baltimore was without several of its top stars in that loss, including Lamar Jackson, Kyle Hamilton, Marlon Humphrey, Roquan Smith, and Ronnie Stanley.<\/p>\n<p>Houston can still win the AFC South and avoid a road game in the first round if it defeats the Colts and the Jaguars lose to the Titans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texans would land in the No. 5 seed with a win over the Colts and a Jaguars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[216971,216972,834,10013,10014,10015,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-489972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2025-week-18","9":"tag-2025-week-18-news","10":"tag-general","11":"tag-homepage-latest-headlines","12":"tag-inline-news","13":"tag-justin-robertson","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115832511839186877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489972","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=489972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}