The Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers have been heading in different directions over the past month. The Ravens, champions of the AFC North, have been blowing teams out over the past four weeks. Their average margin of victory was 23 points per game over that span, with the closest of those four being a 34-17 win over Pittsburgh on Dec. 21, in which the Ravens took control of the division on their way to a wild-card round home game. Lamar Jackson turned in an historic regular season, becoming the first quarterback in league history to throw 40 or more touchdown passes with four or fewer interceptions and the first player to throw for 4,000 yards while rushing for 800 yards, all on his way to becoming the NFL's all-time leading rusher at the quarterback position.
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The Steelers, meanwhile, are limping into the playoffs, having lost four in a row — including double-digit losses to both the Chiefs and Eagles, in addition to the blowout loss in Baltimore — and scoring just 14.3 points per game in those losses. To say the Steelers' pass offense is struggling might be an understatement. They haven't topped 200 passing yards since Dec. 1 and have been under 165 passing yards in four of their last five games to finish the year.
How to watch Steelers vs. Ravens AFC wild-card game
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Location: M&T Bank Stadium | Baltimore
Streaming: Amazon Prime Video
Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens FREE LIVE STREAM (1/11/25): Watch AFC playoff game on Amazon Prime| Time, TV, Channel for Wild Card Weekend
How to watch: Fans can watch the game for free via a trial of Amazon Prime. The game will air in Pittsburgh on WPXI NBC 11 and air in Baltimore on WMAR ABC 2, but everyone else will have to sign up for a free trial of Amazon Prime to watch the game.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: Wild Card Weekend
Who: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens
When: Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025
Where: M&T Bank Stadium
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Live stream: Amazon Prime (free trial)
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Here’s a game preview via the Associated Press:
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — John Harbaugh was in his first year as Baltimore’s coach, Mike Tomlin in his second for Pittsburgh. After a pair of clashes that came down to the wire during the 2008 regular season, the two met again in the AFC championship game.
They were just getting started.
Now those two are the longest-tenured coaches in the NFL, and under their stewardship, the Ravens and Steelers have kept their rivalry humming. For 18 weeks, they battled for the AFC North title this season, and on Saturday night in Baltimore, Harbaugh and Tomlin will face each other in the playoffs. It’ll be their fourth postseason matchup and the fifth playoff meeting overall between the rival franchises.
“Going to Baltimore, particularly in playoff football, is something to be respected. I expect it to be a hostile environment,” Tomlin said. “I welcome that, to be quite honest with you. It’s important that we smile in the face of that. As a collective, it’s just simply a tax to pay for not winning the division and we pay that.”
The Ravens (12-5) won their final four games of the regular season while the Steelers (10-7) dropped their last four. That gives Baltimore a chance to host Pittsburgh in the postseason for the first time. Their previous four playoff meetings — in the 2001, 2008, 2010 and 2014 seasons — were all in the Steel City. The home team won three of them.ar faf sdtg dfhgdj
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The Steelers, meanwhile, are limping into the playoffs, having lost four in a row — including double-digit losses to both the Chiefs and Eagles, in addition to the blowout loss in Baltimore — and scoring just 14.3 points per game in those losses. To say the Steelers' pass offense is struggling might be an understatement. They haven't topped 200 passing yards since Dec. 1 and have been under 165 passing yards in four of their last five games to finish the year.
How to watch Steelers vs. Ravens AFC wild-card game
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Location: M&T Bank Stadium | Baltimore
Streaming: Amazon Prime Video
Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens FREE LIVE STREAM (1/11/25): Watch AFC playoff game on Amazon Prime| Time, TV, Channel for Wild Card Weekend
How to watch: Fans can watch the game for free via a trial of Amazon Prime. The game will air in Pittsburgh on WPXI NBC 11 and air in Baltimore on WMAR ABC 2, but everyone else will have to sign up for a free trial of Amazon Prime to watch the game.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: Wild Card Weekend
Who: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens
When: Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025
Where: M&T Bank Stadium
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Live stream: Amazon Prime (free trial)
***
Here’s a game preview via the Associated Press:
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — John Harbaugh was in his first year as Baltimore’s coach, Mike Tomlin in his second for Pittsburgh. After a pair of clashes that came down to the wire during the 2008 regular season, the two met again in the AFC championship game.
They were just getting started.
Now those two are the longest-tenured coaches in the NFL, and under their stewardship, the Ravens and Steelers have kept their rivalry humming. For 18 weeks, they battled for the AFC North title this season, and on Saturday night in Baltimore, Harbaugh and Tomlin will face each other in the playoffs. It’ll be their fourth postseason matchup and the fifth playoff meeting overall between the rival franchises.
“Going to Baltimore, particularly in playoff football, is something to be respected. I expect it to be a hostile environment,” Tomlin said. “I welcome that, to be quite honest with you. It’s important that we smile in the face of that. As a collective, it’s just simply a tax to pay for not winning the division and we pay that.”
The Ravens (12-5) won their final four games of the regular season while the Steelers (10-7) dropped their last four. That gives Baltimore a chance to host Pittsburgh in the postseason for the first time. Their previous four playoff meetings — in the 2001, 2008, 2010 and 2014 seasons — were all in the Steel City. The home team won three of them.ar faf sdtg dfhgdj