The Baltimore Ravens clinched the No. 1 seed within the AFC by way of a dominant 56-19 blowout win over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday and, thus, don’t have anything to realize throughout Saturday’s regular-season finale versus the 9-7 Pittsburgh Steelers.
Ravens head coach John Harbaugh hasn’t but determined how he’ll deal with his first-choice gamers for the opening weekend of 2024.
“I’ve not made any selections on personnel but,” Harbaugh defined on Monday, as shared by Charean Williams of Professional Soccer Discuss. “We’ve bought to type of work via the harm a part of it first. That’ll take us in all probability 24 to 48 hours to get an actual deal with on that, after which we’ll make these selections. We’re not going to maintain it a secret. We’ll let what we’re going to do as soon as we begin training.”
Williams talked about that Harbaugh sat presumed 2023 NFL Most Helpful Participant Lamar Jackson and different key starters for the 2019 regular-season finale when Baltimore had nothing to “win” relating to that sport. The Ravens in the end turned a one-and-done playoff aspect in January 2020.
To match, Michael David Smith of Professional Soccer Discuss famous that Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell revealed Monday he will not relaxation starters for his membership’s upcoming regular-season finale although Detroit can solely transfer as much as the No. 2 seed within the NFC. Campbell defined he needs his gamers targeted and “able to roll” heading into the playoffs.
Curiously, Saturday afternoon’s sport at M&T Financial institution Stadium is huge for Pittsburgh. Per the Steelers’ web site, Pittsburgh can again into the playoffs with a win at Baltimore coupled with the Miami Dolphins (11-5) beating the Buffalo Payments (10-6) or the Tennessee Titans (5-11) defeating the Jacksonville Jaguars (9-7) in Week 18 (amongst different eventualities).
In brief, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin could need to ship Harbaugh a late Christmas current sooner moderately than later.
