The Steelers defense is bad as all Bills fans now know. Its difficult to believe that the Steelers make the playoffs this year even when they get Bryant, and Bell back.
Its tough to cover Edelman (another Wes Welker), and Gronk! As Bill Belicheat so aptly put it " nobody plays cover two defense against us because they can't cover Gronk"!
It looked to me like the refs in the game were allowing those three patriots rookie O linemen to hold all game long. I dunno perhaps to ensure that the season opening game looked good for all the NFL fans out there.
It looked like Big Ben was getting frustrated in the 4th quarter, and trying to press the pass to much. They should have kept to their run game, and let the QB just manage it.
What we learned: The Patriots can be run on. If the Steelers with a banged up O line with their best player out, and with a 32 year old RB can get 27 carries for 127 yards then the Bills should dominate with their run game. We also learned that the Patriots secondary won't be anywhere near as good as they were least season with Revis.
That Patriot O line is very weak with three rookies starting and if the Bills pass coverage can hold for 2 seconds then it should give that Bills front four time to get to Brady.
Next, I don't see the Pats new RB Dion Lewis or any Patriots RB being a big threat to the Bills defense which should make them one dimensional. What sucks is we don't know which Darby will show up. The one who got two INT' s or the roasted Mr Darby who was targeted and burned on a regular basis in other games. If he is having an off day Brady will exploit it.
Here is hoping that Rex & Roman set up a game plan to destroy Brady & Belicheat for the season.