Pittsburgh Steelers: Steelers Can Clinch This Week As Schedule Gets Tougher
The Steelers can clinch their playoff spot this week, but it surely will not come straightforward until they get assist.
If Pittsburgh (10-3) beats the surging cross-state Eagles, the Steelers are within the postseason for the fourth time up to now 5 seasons. However, the Steelers have not received in Philadelphia since 1965 and the Eagles are 11-2, driving a nine-game profitable streak.
The Steelers also can get into the playoffs this week with losses by the Colts (vs. Broncos) and Dolphins (vs. Texans), as each groups sit 4 video games again of Pittsburgh at 6-7.
Beating the Browns was huge for Pittsburgh’s odds of profitable the AFC North. With a two-game lead over the Ravens, the Steelers have an 81% probability, per ESPN’s projections. They nonetheless have a date in Baltimore subsequent week.
Pittsburgh’s .395 power of schedule to date this season is the bottom of any crew presently within the AFC playoff hunt by a major margin, however that is about to alter with video games towards the Eagles, Ravens, and Chiefs up subsequent.
It hasn’t all the time been fairly, however the Steelers have, for essentially the most half, overwhelmed the groups they need to beat to place themselves on the cusp of constructing the playoffs even earlier than they get into the meat of their schedule.
“The Steelers’ largest power could also be that nothing about them stinks too unhealthy,” wrote the Pittsburgh Tribune’s Mark Madden. “The NFL has parity at a nauseating degree. In a league like that, not having an simply exploited weak spot can go a good distance.”
