With just two games remaining, will Pittsburgh or Baltimore walk away with the AFC North title? | Internal coverage

With their win on Saturday, the Baltimore Ravens ended their season series with the Pittsburgh Steelers and tied the AFC North race with just two games remaining in the 2024 season. Jason Fitz & Frank Schwab discuss the paths the two 10-5 teams have to win their division and get a home playoff game. The Baltimore Ravens are playing at their highest level this season, with Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry and company firing on all cylinders. Meanwhile, the Steelers, who have had the better record all season long, appear to be stalling after a couple of lackluster offensive performances in a row.

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I don’t want to turn every game into a referendum on what to do with Russell Wilson, but over the last 3 games and I understand he’s not getting much help, he hasn’t looked that great.

Uh, he had a big fumble in this game when they were, he ran down, he ran to about the 4 yard line and then fumbled that interception by Marlon.

Good for my fantasy team that has a defense, but not so good for Russell Wilson because it was just awful.

Like, and now you’re starting to say, OK, he just had a hot streak in the beginning and he’s adjusting now?

I don’t know, but I think the Steelers have a lot more questions at quarterback than they did a few weeks ago.

But you know, and this was a thing where the Steelers have to look around and be like, we’ve won 10 games and we just couldn’t shake the Ravens.

They must be so frustrated.

They could have won the AFC North on Saturday.

Instead they lose, the Steelers could still win the division they left, but some tough games await them.

I don’t know if they could do it.

I think Baltimore is going to win this division and I think Baltimore is going to go into the playoffs and say, you know what, all these other AFC teams are flawed.

Maybe we have some flaws too, but we also have an MVP-level quarterback.

We have Derrick Henry, we have a really, really good coach.

We got as good a shot as anybody, and I think if they could win this division, I think it’s big to get that one home game at least.

I think the Ravens should feel like you said, like, hey, we’re a Super Bowl contender too, why not?

I mean, the Ravens have a tough game left against the Texans.

That’s their one tough fight left, but you’re right.

I don’t even know.

The Texans are anything.

The Texans are so whatever for me this season.

Like, if you, if you want to get, if you want to be a Super Bowl team, you beat the Houston Texans, okay?

That’s the way it is, that’s the way it is.

If you, if you want to be taken seriously as a contender, you don’t lose to the really, really mediocre Texans team.

Um, yeah, and the Chiefs, um, as opposed to that, the Chiefs, or sorry, the Steelers have the Chiefs, and then they have the Bengals.

Now the Bengals defense is miserable.

We all know that.

But, uh, the Bengals and Thompson Robinson.

I mean, um, but that Bengals offense is cooking, right?

So there’s a couple of tough games left for Pittsburgh in this one, and I, I’ll be honest, I think.

If the Steelers don’t win their division, considering how good this looked a few weeks ago, it will feel like a disappointment.

Um, and, and this is coming from someone who, um, when we started the season, I said out loud that I thought the second best team in the AFC was the Ravens behind the Bills.

Uh, I, I, I think the Ravens are, are awesome.

They are built offensively, they are built in a way that challenges.

you saw many ways.

I really think there’s something special there, but their defense, to your point, has been bad for most of this year, right?

So we just anointed the Steelers a month ago to be, oh my God, they look like they could be the Super Bowl with it.

If they end up as the wild card team and don’t win their division, then it feels like a disappointment to what we expected for them.

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