Jets blow playoff berth as Steelers declare wild card

But they needed help to get there, in the form of a Buffalo Bills win over the New York Jets.

The Steelers will travel to Cincinnati to take on the Bengals in the playoffs next weekend.

Scroll down to see the back and forth lovefest between the two teams.

“We’ve had our ups and downs, but that’s a resilient group and equally important is that it’s a tight group and they stayed together”, coach Mike Tomlin said.

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“We understood what was at stake, so we had to play our best ball”.

The Browns put up a fight, but lost for the 13th time this season. The Browns, meanwhile, slipped to 3-12, their worst record since 2000, the second year of the expansion era. He has 18 carries for the Steelers this season after getting six with the Ravens past year, but at least he’s been on the roster all season, even if some of that was spent on the practice squad.

“I was locked in”, Steelers linebacker Vince Williams said. “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”.

The Redskins (9-7) head into the playoffs on a four-game winning streak, the team’s longest since 2012. While Roethlisberger had three touchdown passes against the Browns on Sunday, he also had two interceptions. “When we’re able to do that, we’re a better team”. It is a bottom line business and you guys don’t have a column in the newspaper for moral victories.

MEDICAL WATCH: Running back DeAngelo Williams left the Browns game in the first half with a right ankle injury and did not return.

“Last week we didn’t answer the call”, safety Mike Mitchell said.

Linebacker Arthur Moats heard the cheers very late in the fourth quarter of the Steelers-Browns game. He caught a 42-yard pass from Austin Davis at the end of the second quarter, beating cornerback Antwon Blake for the contested ball at the Steelers’ 15. “That was all on me”.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Cam Newton made another case for the NFL’s Most Valuable Player honors, and Carolina secured the top seed for the NFC playoffs with a rout of Tampa Bay. He reeled in 13 passes for 187 yards and a score. Yes, the sack total is impressive, and the unit had four takeaways on Sunday to add to a double-digit fumbles recovered and passes intercepted on the season.

As such, the Steelers would have to win three games on the road to reach Super Bowl 50.

A 17-yard dart to wide receiver Brown with 1:02 left in the first half stretched the lead to 14-6.

Now let’s do the what-if math. What if Antonio Brown had Ben Roethlisberger throwing to him every game this past season as Julio Jones had Matt Ryan throwing to him every game? New England played a conservative game offensively as Tom Brady completed 12 of 21 passes for 134 yards and no touchdowns.

It took a highly unlikely domino effect of sorts for the Pittsburgh Steelers to find themselves gasping for air after Week 16.