Steelers Edge Ravens 27-22, Tight Race in AFC North

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00:00where pittsburgh held off baltimore 27-22 a little controversially you know i think you could

00:06look at it and say well isaiah likely seemed to hold that ball long enough probably should have

00:11been a ravens touchdown it wasn't so the steelers they get that win aaron rogers we could show his

00:17numbers he did enough 284 passing a touchdown he ran for one as well and now we're looking at it

00:24here with the steelers seven and six leading this division one game in front of baltimore the

00:30bangles had they not lost to the bills we're still you know very much alive i think in this race but

00:35then you drop to four and nine it's probably over for joe burrow and company how does this shake out

00:40in your mind though between pittsburgh and baltimore going forward i think it's going to be tough for

00:47the ravens to rebound from that loss now let's be clear they still have an opportunity to do so they

00:52have another head-to-head game against the steelers and i believe presently if the ravens do win that

00:57remaining game against the steelers i believe they would still have the they would end up retaking

01:02the tiebreaker over the steelers based off their record in common games but it's going to boil down

01:07to probably a tiebreaker if the ravens are going to take it but you watch how they've been playing

01:11lately and things just don't seem to be coming together for them lamar jackson was better this last

01:16week after kind of a three-week cold spell i don't know if he was just a little rusty coming back from

01:21injury or if he was a little bit banged up i know he's been nursing kind of toe and knee and hamstring

01:25injuries all year so we'll see if he can get healthier down the stretch but the thing that

01:30disappointed me the most for the ravens in this game was their defense just kind of no-showed against

01:34erin rogers and the steelers who hadn't been able to generate a ton of offense this season

01:38they had dk metcalf have his best game as a stealer he was consistently making downfield plays so

01:45it just felt like a game where the ravens defense should have played better than they did

01:49and because they couldn't kind of put it together they ended up behind the eight ball and lamar

01:53jackson did everything in his power he could to come back in that game but it wasn't enough we

01:58were basically half an isaiah likely footstep away from potentially having a ravens win but

02:03if they just had a little bit better performance on defense they might not have needed it to come

02:08down to that call adam so i'm a little worried about the ravens but this still feels like a coin flip

02:13division that's really going to come down to the last couple weeks of the season well that in mind what

02:18we're looking at right now you've got the steelers at minus 160 to win this division the ravens at plus

02:23170 pittsburgh next has miami now my read on the dolphins wrong throughout the year i have personally

02:31fired mike mcdaniel 15 times already and yet this team continues to play for him has obviously gotten

02:37hot this is for the kind of jekyll and hyde steelers a losable game that said plus 170 on baltimore to win

02:44this division it feels like there's still some value in that number absolutely i think if you

02:50look at these two teams and how they've played throughout the season you would say hey the

02:53ravens are probably the better overall team have the better roster ever so slightly and you know

02:58when these two quarterbacks are playing at the peak of what they are right now lamar jackson clears

03:02aaron rogers without a doubt so i think the idea of backing the ravens at that number makes a lot of

03:07sense to me i think to your point that game against the dolphins may not look as tough on paper as people

03:12might anticipate but the dolphins have heated up a little bit so that could end up being a trickier

03:17spot for the steelers especially if they're kind of you know holding their heads up high after beating

03:21the ravens and think that hey we can handle the dolphins with ease so it'll be interesting to watch

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