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As always, Wednesday, January 3rd.

I'm Jamie Erdall.

There's Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, Jason McCordy.

Guys, kind of an awkward feeling with no Monday night football, no Thursday night football.

Peter, do you feel like your extra magnifying glass focused on any one specific matchup this week? I've been studying the Texans depth chart for now close to three straight days.

We can go deep on Blake Cashman if we need.

Yep.

It is weird. Usually we start the show on Tuesday recapping Monday and F-O we didn't do that yesterday. Usually we spend Wednesday and

Thursday. We didn't do that. Fortunately, we have a full slate of games and

just about every single one of them is significant games. Such a thrill.

Absolutely block. It was a party in the Ravens locker room. You've seen it. They clinched the number one seat in the AFC and that ever important first round by. So pops and confetti, drop it, drop it low and then get back to work. There's some decisions to make. They've got a game to play on Saturday. They get their division rival to Steelers who have a lot on the line.

They're looking to get to the postseason themselves with the quarterback situation, which we will talk about.

It does bring up an issue in Baltimore though. Do you rest starters come week 18? How does one handle that?

John Harbaugh was asked this question on Monday. Here's his response.

I have not made a decision on any personnel yet. We've got to kind of work through the injury part of it first, and that'll take us probably 24 to 48 hours to get a real handle on that. And then we'll make those decisions. We're not going to keep it a secret, Jameson. We'll let you know what we're going to do once we start practicing. All right, so the Ravens will practice later today. We'll get a little bit more clarity on that. But if you are Baltimore, if you are Harbaugh and try to make this decision, how would you approach this week 18 game, Peter, against the Steelers? It's the Steelers. Okay. That's where the one thing is different than if they were playing a random team or a team that didn't need anything. It's the Steelers. As Baltimore Ravens, are you going to let the Steelers backdoor into the playoffs? Because all the Steelers need is for the Dolphins to beat the bills and then a Steelers win and then they're in. And then the Steelers are the seventh seed. And guess what? If the Steelers are the seventh seed beat the two seed, whether that's Miami or whoever, guess who they play the next round, a division round? That's the Ravens. Yeah. You just let your arch rival Steelers come into the playoffs. Now suddenly it would be a team that has four straight wins, just beat the number two seat in their building, coming in with a head full of steam facing you in your building, which has not exactly been the place that no one fears to go, everyone fears to go in the playoffs of late. And you're doing it because you let them in in in week 18. And you let them in because he said,

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