{"id":651302,"date":"2026-01-03T18:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/651302\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:22:13","slug":"nfls-looming-black-monday-brings-yankees-comparisons-for-title-less-aaron-boone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/651302\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL&#8217;s looming Black Monday brings Yankees comparisons for title-less Aaron Boone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Black Monday approaches in the NFL, three situations make me think about \u2026 the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Two are tied together. The Ravens play the Steelers in the final regular season game Sunday night with the immediate pertinence being an elimination game for the AFC North crown. But hovering over this \u2014 notably for the loser \u2014 is the future of the coaches, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/02\/sports\/the-hard-nosed-legacy-behind-mike-tomlin-john-harbaugh-rivalry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Tomlin completing his 19th season with Pittsburgh and John Harbaugh 18 with Baltimore.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The stability and accomplishments are stark. Each has won a title, but for more than a decade now, the success has been limited to the regular season. The Steelers have not won a playoff game since January 2016 and the Ravens are 4-7 in the postseason with one conference championship trip since winning Super Bowl XLVII in February 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Remind you of any franchise that last won a title in 2009 and has since had terrific regular season success followed by postseason fizzles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Black Monday approaches in the NFL, three situations make me think about \u2026 the Yankees. Two are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,53,7,50708,1012,872,1255,6060,19722,11002,6,57,169,3026,9,2833,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-651302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-hardball","14":"tag-jim-harbaugh","15":"tag-josh-allen","16":"tag-mike-tomlin","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-new-york-mets","19":"tag-new-york-yankees","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","22":"tag-ravens","23":"tag-sean-mcdermott","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-sports-columnists","26":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115832563119770978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651302","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=651302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}