Steelers-Colts NFL Week 16: What You Need To Know

PITTSBURGH, PA — Pretty much all you need to know about this week's Steelers game is what you already know: The Steelers need a win. Badly.

After an 11-0 start, the team has lost three in a row - including that humiliating loss on Monday night to the Cincinnati Bengals, who brought a lofty 2-10-1 record into the game and thoroughly whipped the Steelers in all phases of the game.

Lose to the Colts, who bring a more impressive 10-4 record into Pittsburgh on Sunday, and the situation will get uncomfortably interesting for the Steelers. Their inexcusable loss to the Bengals leaves them a mere game ahead of the Cleveland Browns in the AFC North, and the Browns play the 1-12 New York Jets this week.

A Browns win and Steelers loss this weeks sets up a winner-take-all game between the teams in next week's season finale in Cleveland. As poorly as the Steelers have played recently, they certainly don't want that.

Here's what else you need to know about the game:

• Where: Heinz Field
• When: Sunday, 1 p.m.
• Forecast: Partly sunny, temperatures the mid-30s.
• Favored: Colts by 1.5, according to Oddsshark.com
• Last meeting: Nov. 3, 2019, Steelers won 26-24.
• All-time series: Steelers lead, 25-6
• Streak: Steelers have won the past six games against the Colts.
• TV: CBS.
• Radio: WDVE-FM, with Bill Hillgrove and Tunch Ilkin.