{"id":1796,"date":"2026-01-12T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wild-card-hou-at-pit-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:15:00","slug":"wild-card-hou-at-pit-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wild-card-hou-at-pit-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild card rout: Texans bury Steelers 30-6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Houston Texans are through to the divisional round after a 30-6 win over Pittsburgh Steelers at Acrisure Stadium, Pittsburgh, PA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The margin was set up before halftime and the second half was a formality played out in front of a building that had already made up its mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texans took the 5th seed in the AFC off a 12-5 season; Steelers were the 4th seed at 10-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What the box score does not carry is the personnel chess. Heavier packages early forced a matchup that never got fixed, and by the fourth quarter the adjustments were coming too late to matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A crowd of 67,297 watched it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Texans advance 30-6 and the bracket loses Pittsburgh Steelers in the opening weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":3131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[50,61,57,60],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-report","tag-playoffs","tag-steelers","tag-texans","tag-wild-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}