{"id":647211,"date":"2026-01-02T04:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647211\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:19:31","slug":"steelers-veterans-emphasize-consistency-is-key-for-victory-against-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647211\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers veterans emphasize consistency is key for victory against Ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans will feel the tension all through Sunday night as the Steelers and Ravens battle for the AFC North crown.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers held another day practice indoors on Thursday as they prepare for their win-or-go-home matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>One noticeable consistency coming from team leadership this week is a big emphasis on staying in routine, despite the magnitude of this game.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Rodgers told us yesterday that it\u2019s business as usual and keeping the process the same week after week is what\u2019s kept him from stringing together bad games over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Cam Heyward had a similar sentiment on Thursday, telling us the team isn\u2019t hyper-focused on the high stakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if we\u2019re really thinking about it. I think we\u2019re just more concerned with we gotta play our best ball. There\u2019s urgency there. There\u2019s us just trying to kick a whole lot of tail and we gotta make up for our mistakes last week,\u201d Heyward said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>TJ Watt was out at practice. We\u2019re expecting the injury report any time now, telling us if he was limited again or a full participant for the first time since his lung issue three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Channel 11 is your home for the Steelers and Ravens game on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>It begins with the Black and Gold Zone countdown to kickoff at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff is at 8:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans will feel the tension all through Sunday night as the Steelers and Ravens battle for the AFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[1586,1990,344,7,6,520,57,2360,169,426,7215,8576],"class_list":{"0":"post-647211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-afc-north","10":"tag-cam-heyward","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","15":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","16":"tag-ravens","17":"tag-steelers","18":"tag-the-steelers","19":"tag-tj-watt"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115823585969775067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}