NFL week 18 schedule

Expat Smoggie

Expat Smoggie

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Final full schedule of games in the NFL with most things decided as far as number one seeds. The focus will surely be on which teams from the AFC/NFC south divisions will clinch the division titles as well as the small matter of the winner takes all battle between the Bills and the Dolphins.

2023 NFL Schedule - Week 18
Saturday’s games
Pittsburgh Steelers at Baltimore Ravens
Houston Texans at Indianapolis Colts

Sunday’s games
Minnesota Vikings at Detroit Lions Sunday,
Atlanta Falcons at New Orleans Saints
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Carolina Panthers
Cleveland Browns at Cincinnati Bengals
Jacksonville Jaguars at Tennessee Titans
New York Jets at New England
Kansas City Chiefs at Los Angeles Chargers
Los Angeles Rams at San Francisco 49ers
Dallas Cowboys at Washington Commanders
Seattle Seahawks at Arizona Cardinals
Philadelphia Eagles at New York Giants
Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers
Denver Broncos at Las Vegas Raiders
Buffalo Bills at Miami Dolphins
 
7-7 tie moving deep into the third with both teams coughing up the ball. Pittsburgh might have the edge with the running game but this looks like coming down to whoever dares.
 
Steelers hold on but let’s be fair Ravens really had their second stringers out there and while the conditions were bad the Steelers struggled — as they’ve done for the past few seasons.

If the Steelers don’t make the playoffs I’m wondering if the owners fire Tomlin? Tomlin has been in the Steel town now for 10 years so it could be time for a change with a total clear out with a new coach and staff?
 
Interesting match up next as the Texans have to overcome Indianapolis for a playoff spot.
Texans CJ Stroud is emerging as the next elite QB, who probably is better than Purdy for field awareness.

Colts mind you are a decent team especially at home so it’ll be interesting to see how their defense handles Stroud— there’s a lot on the line tonight.
 
Expat Smoggie said:
Steelers hold on but let’s be fair Ravens really had their second stringers out there and while the conditions were bad the Steelers struggled — as they’ve done for the past few seasons.

If the Steelers don’t make the playoffs I’m wondering if the owners fire Tomlin? Tomlin has been in the Steel town now for 10 years so it could be time for a change with a total clear out with a new coach and staff?
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You’re must be dreaming expat!

Steelers regularly handle Baltimore and perform well with their other AFC North rivals which is arguably the most competitive division in the entire league.

Mike Tomlin has never had ONE losing season in his 17 years as Steelers head coach. His players love and respect him. Only Tom Landry 21 and Bill Belichik 19 have registered a better record.

Tomlin’s going to retire sometime along the way AS a Steeler and go the the NFL HOF just like Chuck Noll and Bill Cower, his 2 also long term predecessors.

Simply said, Steelers are in a class by themselves when it comes to stability with their head coaches.

Do you think Pats might ditch Belichik?
 
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You’re must be dreaming expat!

Steelers regularly handle Baltimore and perform well with their other AFC North rivals which is arguably the most competitive division in the entire league.

Mike Tomlin has never had ONE losing season in his 18 years as Steelers head coach. He‘s going to retire sometime along the way as a Steeler and go the the NFL HOF just like Chuck Noll and Bill Cower, his 2 long term predecessors.

Simply said, Steelers are in a class by themselves when it comes to stability with their head coaches.

Do you think Pats might ditch Belichik?
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I’m just saying what I’ve read in various media articles that Tomlin has probably ran his race in Steeler town.lets see what happens in the offseason but for me they’ve gone backwards.
 
Expat Smoggie said:
I’m just saying what I’ve read in various media articles that Tomlin has probably ran his race in Steeler town.lets see what happens in the offseason but for me they’ve gone backwards.
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Steelers 10-7 this year and 9-8 the year previous. For me, it’s not at all going backwards for a team on a rebuild since Big Ben retired just 2 years back.
 
The Steelers are desperately in need of a decent QB rather than a new head coach in my opinion and that's despite all the talk around Tomlin's future.
Despite having such a choked offence earlier in the season they kept getting results and once they changed the OC then they opened up a lot more.
As said above, the AFC North is beyond brutal. You've got the Ravens with Lamar, a Browns franchise that is transforming itself under Berry and the Bengals with Burrow. All 3 are capable of winning the division next year. However, they play 6 games against their division rivals so the easy part of their season invariably comes when they go out of the division.
It's telling that a Bengals win today against a 2nd string Browns would see all 4 teams finish over .500, the first division to do so since the league merger.
For the Steelers to still be in contention is testament to Tomlin I'd say.
 
Simply an epic game tonight

The mafia has travelled it’s now up to Josh and the boys.

We BILLIEVE
 
Texans win on the road at the Colts and make the playoffs. Unbelievable effort from them with a rookie QB and Head Coach.

Stroud looks the best QB from the draft and they are definitely on the up.
 
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Steelers 10-7 this year and 9-8 the year previous. For me, it’s not at all going backwards for a team on a rebuild since Big Ben retired just 2 years back.
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It's in a brutal division too.

In all likelihood, the Bengals will beat the resting Browns tonight. That will make the AFC North the first division in which all 4 teams have finished above 0.5 in 90 years.

Given that games within the division will always average out at 0.5, this means the AFC North has done incredibly well against teams in other divisions
 
Oh and if the Browns win tonight it'll be the first time since the Patriots back in the strike season that a team has had 5 winning, starting QB's.
I'm hoping the Jags win tonight as I'd rather play them than the Texans tbh. Squeaky bum time for a lot of teams tonight.
 
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