{"id":7796,"date":"2013-12-22T21:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T02:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7796"},"modified":"2013-12-22T21:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T02:00:03","slug":"steelers-can-still-make-playoffs-but-need-a-lot-of-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/22\/steelers-can-still-make-playoffs-but-need-a-lot-of-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers can still make playoffs but need a lot of help"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7797\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7797\" alt=\"Roethlisberger and the Steelers can still make playoffs\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/benroethlisberger.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/benroethlisberger.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/benroethlisberger-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/benroethlisberger-50x37.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After a 0-4 start the Pittsburgh Steelers were not looking like a playoff team. The Steelers though have played a little better of late and somehow still have a chance to make the post season entering Week 17.<\/p>\n<p>While the Steelers can make the playoffs they will need some help, well a lot of help.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers can make the playoffs at 8-8 if the following happens:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>Steelers win over Cleveland Browns<\/li>\n<li>New York Jets win over Miami Dolphins<\/li>\n<li>Cincinnati Bengals win over Baltimore Ravens<\/li>\n<li>Kansas City Chiefs win over San Diego Chargers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It will not be the easiest way to get into the playoffs but it is still out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 0-4 start the Pittsburgh Steelers were not looking like a playoff team. The Steelers though have played a little better of late and somehow still have a chance to make the post season entering Week 17. While the Steelers can make the playoffs they will need some help, well a lot of help. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[216,68],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-7796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7796"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}