PITTBURGH (KDKA) – They are saying all you possibly can ask for in life and sports activities is one probability, and that is precisely what the Steelers have in entrance of them as they enter Week 18 – an opportunity.

The Steelers and Browns will face off at Acrisure Stadium within the season finale, and postseason hopes for the Steelers nonetheless shine.

For the Steelers to qualify for the NFL Playoffs, they need to first beat Cleveland at the moment.

That is the first step to turn out to be the seventh seed of the AFC.

However identical to final week, they’ll want some assist.

Excellent news for Steelers followers? The whole lot occurs in 1:00 video games.

Two video games Steelers followers ought to regulate, Payments vs. Patriots and Dolphins vs. jets. Steelers followers assist Payments and the Jets at the moment.

If these two groups are victorious at the moment and mixed with the Steelers beating the Browns, the 2-6 workforce within the bye will end the season 9-8 and the playoffs because the AFC’s seventh seed.

For the gamers, at the moment is not nearly making the playoffs, it is about avoiding the errors they made within the first sport in September when the Browns beat the Steelers 29-17.

“We have to play higher soccer,” stated Minkah Fitzpatrick, safety and MVP of the workforce. “We had been enjoying sloppy on the defensive facet of the ball – dangerous eyes, dangerous toes, wanting on the fallacious issues, lacking interceptions and that wasn’t our regular soccer commonplace. I simply suppose we must always go there and maintain the pattern in the proper path like we have been doing for the final 4 or 5 weeks. Nice self-discipline, Play with nice eyes, nice observe and bodily soccer back and front. I believe we are able to do it. Taking part in at a excessive stage.”

At present’s sport additionally continues a stat we highlighted final week: The Steelers performed 257 video games below Head Coach Mike Tomlin, and whereas at the moment’s sport has playoff results, they nonetheless solely performed one sport whereas being eradicated from playoff rivalry.

This got here at week 17 in 2012.

A win would additionally protect Tomlin’s streak as head coach to by no means end a season under .500.

The Steelers and Browns will kick off at 1:00 p.m. at Acrisure Stadium and you will catch it proper right here at KDKA.