Steelers Now
One week after the Baltimore Ravens eliminated the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Wild Card playoffs, the Ravens themselves were knocked out at the hands of the Buffalo Bills, 27-25.
Baltimore came close, getting to within two points at a snowy Highmark Stadium on Sunday night, before Mark Andrews dropped a potential game-tying two-point conversion pass from Lamar Jackson with under two minutes to play.
Jim Nantz & Tony Romo on the CBS call for the Mark Andrews drop.
"THE BALL IS DROPPED! HE HAD THE 2-POINT CONVERSION IN HIS HANDS! ANDREWS DID NOT HOLD ON!" – Nantz
"Oh my goodness." – Romo
"It's shocking." – Nantz
"It's shocking… That's caught 999 out of 1,000." – Romo https://t.co/Hcs8sQaey9 pic.twitter.com/CuWAPZ609w
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) January 20, 2025
The Bills then recovered Baltimore’s onside kick attempt and ran out the clock to send Buffalo to the AFC Championship Game for the sixth time in franchise history. The Bills will travel to Arrowhead Stadium next week to face the Kansas City Chiefs, who beat the Houston Texans on Sunday.
Steelers linebacker Patrick Queen had some words for his former Ravens teammates, after Baltimore linebacker Roquan Smith said Queen “will be in Cabo” this week after the Ravens beat the Steelers last Saturday.
“Aww yeah Ro I saved the jet for ya,” Queen posted on X on Sunday night.
Aww yeah Ro I saved the jet for ya
— 🦈 (@Patrickqueen_) January 20, 2025
The Ravens’ loss snaps a streak of three consecutive seasons of representative in the AFC Championship Game for the AFC North. The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Kansas City Chiefs in 2022 before eventually losing to the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl. In 2023, the Bengals lost to the Chiefs, and last year, it was the Ravens on the short end of the stick against Patrick Mahomes and company.
Buffalo is among the Steelers’ 2025 opponents, while Pittsburgh will get a break from Kansas City in the upcoming season. That is, unless they meet in the playoffs.
