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    AFC North Wild Card Wrapup

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    …in which two AFC North teams squared off for the 47th time this season. Okay.  It was only the third time.  But players for both teams have often cited the familiarity the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens have with one another, as well as mutual animosity.  “There’s no love lost between these teams” implies…

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    AFC North Week 18 Wrapup

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    Heyo. After the 18th and final week of the 2024 regular season, the Ravens and Steelers clinched playoff berths and traded the top spot in the division, eventually settling on the Ravens.  Despite their notable late-season surge and eye-popping offensive numbers, the Bengals were unceremoniously booted from playoff contention by virtue of the Broncos’ decisive…

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    AFC North Week 17 Wrapup

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    It’s the last AFCN Wrapup of the year.  Soon to be followed by the first AFCN Wrapup of 2025. No worries.  You guys are supposed to have a Happy New Year no matter what. So, go do that. Meantime, here’s a glance at last week.  Enjoy.   Chiefs 29, Steelers 10 “That sucked, to be…

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    AFC North Week 16 Wrapup

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    Happy Holidays! Because of those aforementioned holidays, I gotta be brief.  Having only two divisional games to cover certainly helps that.   Steelers 17, Ravens 34 In getting their proverbial black and gold monkey off their collective backs, the Ravens reestablished themselves as a possible Super Bowl contender. In the game’s key sequence, Ravens QB…

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    AFC North Week 15 Wrapup

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    It was a busy week in the AFC North, where the playoff seeding picture got decidedly murkier, setting up another meaningful late season tilt between the Ravens and Steelers. Is there any other kind?   Ravens 35, Giants 14 Thanks to a gigantic talent discrepancy, the Ravens played a loose, undisciplined game and still won…

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    AFC North Week 14 Wrapup

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    The Simpsons did it. After last week’s slate of games, it’s quite clear – the Bengals need Simpsons-themed framing to win NFL games these days. Courtesy of the folks at ESPN/Disney, fans were treated to a digital rendering of the game, set in beloved Springfield USA, complete with the tire fire and remains of a…

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    AFC North Week 13 Wrapup

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    Little pressed for time this morning, so let’s skip my pithy statement and get right to it.   Steelers 44, Bengals 38 In a classic NFL “track meet”, the Steelers managed just enough defense to keep the Bengals offense at bay, while the Bengals defense barely registered. Steelers QB Russell Wilson (29-38, 414 yards, 3…

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    AFC North Week 12 Wrapup

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    It’s Thanksgiving Week! Eat, drink, etc.  Hopefully you’ll have some time to gather in front of the television to perform the annual ritual of sleeping off a food hangover while “watching” NFL football.  This year’s games aren’t particularly exciting, unless you happen to be a fan of those (unfortunate) squads doomed to play. Try to…

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    AFC North Week 11 Wrapup

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    Gimmicks don’t always draw crowds, even in the NFL. The Week 14 Monday night NFL game will remain Bengals / Cowboys, courtesy of the Simpsons. The NFL has informed us that due to the extensive production of their alternate Simpsons broadcast and work performed already, the game is excluded from being (mercifully) flexed to a…

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    AFC North Week 10 Wrapup

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    There are constants in the NFL universe. The Ravens and Steelers are preparing to face each other this week in Pittsburgh in perhaps their most meaningful game in a decade.  The Steelers, at 7-2, lead the division despite a notable QB change and some injury issues; a testament to the job thus far by head…

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