With help from Bills, Steelers clinch playoff berth

“We have to run the ball better than we did today if we want to stay in this tournament for any length of time”.

The loss dropped Cleveland to 3-13 on the season. The Browns, meanwhile, slipped to 3-12, their worst record since 2000, the second year of the expansion era.

This is the second season in a row that Manziel has not started the last game of the season but was spotted drinking the day before. Fox Sports’ Mike Garafolo previously reported he heard “from a lot of people” Coughlin was expected to resign on Monday. Pettine went 10-22 during his two-year stint with Cleveland, losing 18 of his final 21 games.

“As I have said before, it should be a topic of speculation, given what our results have been. I feel like we’ve done a lot of good things, but I’m the first one to tell you this is a pass/fail league, and the results aren’t there”.

Draft Order: With the Titans losing to the Colts and the Browns to the Steelers, the Browns will have the second overall pick in next spring’s NFL Draft. He is 9-2 in games played in Cleveland. He completed 24 of 36 passes for 349 yards Sunday and also threw two interceptions.

“I assumed there was a fight or a Steelers fan was beating up a Browns fan”, he said with a laugh. When things got tight he continued to make plays.

All they have is the player nobody wants to face – Antonio Brown. “But the other part of that scenario is us winning”, Tomlin said.

The Steelers didn’t have Le’Veon Bell for a wild-card game past year after the star back injured his knee in Week 17. He entered the game with 112 tackles vs. the Browns in 17 games and added to that with 10 tackles plus 1.5 sacks.

Watt, playing without a cast for the first time since breaking his left hand December 9, had three sacks, forced a fumble and recovered another one to help the Texans (9-7) to their third playoff berth and first since 2012.

The Steelers’ defense bailed out Roethlisberger with four sacks of Davis, who couldn’t take advantage of great field position and had to settle for three field goals.

Running back DeAngelo Williams was downed on the field at the beginning of the second quarter. Williams finished with five carries for 8 yards.

Roethlisberger began the scoring with a two-yard touchdown toss to tight end Heath Miller in the first quarter. On the next play, Roethlisberger completed an 8-yard TD pass to Markus Wheaton and the Steelers converted the 2-point play to go up by 13.

CLEVELAND (AP) – As usual, Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers found a way.

QUARTERBACK SWITCH: With Johnny Manziel’s season ended by a concussion, Austin Davis will start at quarterback for Cleveland. Forte had 110 yards rushing and receiving, and he matched the Johnson touchdown on the next possession by doing a masterful job of tip-toeing down the sideline with a Jay Cutler screen pass for a 23-yard touchdown play that tied the game at 17.

Until Ben Roethlisberger and Antonio Brown (with no small amount of help from the Buffalo Bills) succeeded in dragging the Steelers kicking and screaming into the playoffs Sunday afternoon, the AFC postseason was shaping up to be something of a drab affair.

With the Browns down to third- and fourth-reamers in the defensive backfield – and with Tashaun Gipson filling in at cornerback early on – Brown had a monster game.