ByTheBay

My optimism is fading now that Jimmy is hurt again. Wright is awful and I mean really awful. He will allow philly to throw downfield all day long. IMHO when healthy, Jimmy and mosley are the 2 irreplaceable players on our defense. I don't understand how some of the posters can't see how important he is. Did you not watch the giants game? Couldn't have been more obvious. What I really worry about is jimmy missing the pit game. We would be toast in Pittsburgh. And cincy? Might be over folks.  

6 minutes ago, VermontRaven said:

"If the Steelers beat the Ravens on Christmas day and both teams finish with the same record, then more complex tiebreaker procedures will come into play." 

What's not mentioned here is that the Ravens would win those "more complex tiebreakers" (not factoring in any ties)

The 3 records the Steelers/Ravens could tie with are 10-6, 9-7, or 11-5. 

If we are tied at 10-6 (and Steelers beat the Ravens), the Ravens would have to win all remaining games.  2nd tiebreak is division record, which would be tied (both teams at 5-1)  3rd tiebreak is "Common games" record which Baltimore wins.

If we are tied at 9-7 (and Steelers beat the Ravens), Steelers would have to have at least one more division loss (games left vs. Bills, @ Bengals, and vs. Browns)...meaning 4-2 in the division would be the best they could do.  Even if Ravens lost to Pitt and Cincy, their division record would be 4-2 and we'd still win the common games tiebreak.

If we are tied at 8-8, Pitt would have to lose 2 division games, and we would still win tiebreak (Bengals would have to lose a game in this scenario as well)  Bottom line, Ravens are guaranteed to win any tiebreak with Pittsburgh (barring ties--haven't calculated those possibilities)

Nicely done