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And, right on cue, they’ve wedged the Cowboys into most of the segments so far. Between that and the incessant Bucs commercials (“no risk it, no biscuit” “Boy the biscuit tastes really good”), I’m struggling to hang in there.

Do you have no respect for Ben as a QB any more then? For the record, I think the Bills should win. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suggest Ben may be a slightly more effective QB earlier in the year. They started off 11-0 last year. It wasn’t all an accident.

Fair. I’m not meaning to suggest Ben is some juggernaut vs. someone who is almost at the end of his football journey. Only that, for someone with his age and health issues, one would assume that he’ll be feeling a lot better/healthier after a long off season of rest which (to me) makes him more dangerous.

I think we’re in for a close game. Early season Ben has a lot of weapons at his disposal. Like many have said, keys for them will be corner and oline play. While we’ve beat them the last 2 years, I was always a lot more uncomfortable throughout the game than I’d hoped. Steelers are a well-coached, prideful bunch who won’t roll over.

This is 3 for Josh and Tremaine. How long until they get the gold captain patch on their jersey? Is that 4 years of captaincy? Edit: For anyone interested like I was, appears you have to be captain 4 years (which fills in the 4 stars on the captain patch) before you get the gold “C” and 4 stars patch in your 5th year of captaincy. So, looks like, Josh and Tremaine need this year (done), next year, and then voted captain the following year to get the gold patch.

Traitor! 😂 That’s home for him, right? Seriously, Good for MLJ. Even if I’m salty he’s jumping ship for a division rival. Seems like a great guy and represented ESPN well with solid Bills coverage.

Didn’t realize it until I see it written, but man are we lean at corner.

Maybe it‘s just me, but I think this is going to be a dog fight of a game if Big Ben shows up. Steelers have oline concerns, but appears solid skill players on offense. All hinges on Big Ben to make it go. Their defense will be prepared. Just praying we don’t have a Zack Martin situation after the long weekend away. Want all hands on deck for this one to get off to a good start. Also, looking forward to all those Bills fans that FINALLY get to attend the game to make life incredibly difficult for the away team.

I don’t know that I get his point about Josh’s modest stats. Maybe when you look at all 3 years of his career so far, taking some sort of average or something, but I think it’s pretty universally accepted that Josh exploded on the scene stat-wise last year.

This is a WR-based offense anyway, but barring injury, Bills will be fine at TE with Knox and Sweeney. Knox will take a step, and Sweeney looked decent in limited action in 2019. There was a brief time where Sweeney looked like the better TE than Knox because of how raw Knox was.

What about Jack “Baby Richie Incognito” Anderson? I realize he was only a late round pick, but he is one of their recent draft picks which they’ve been partial to historically. I’ve heard almost nothing about him in camp. Likely a PS guy his first year, but maybe he factors into a deep depth guard spot.

Raiders are so dumb. Shouldn’t have let him go to begin with.

Yeah, that was super awkward.

I was wondering where he’d come in in relation to Lamar. Like him or not, Lamar is incredibly popular among players in this league. Josh was/has been openly mocked by other players saying he was destined to fail. I know these rankings are meaningless, but the fact that he was able to fight that uphill battle and flip the script with respect to how others around the league view him shows you how special his 2020 season really was.

I think Josh is worthy of top 5-10, but we’re getting to the point he’ll show up.

Squealers starting O looking good. Still mad they selected Freiermuth before we could.

Fromm is likely out. Razor thin margins for him as it was. He had to be lights out in pre season.

That call ticks me off. It felt like instinct for the ref to throw it because it “looked bad”. Helmet comes off -throw the flag. Looked close, but more shoulder to me.

I’d cut Taiwan Jones and replace with Kumerow. Then keep Stevenson. That’s the way you make room for Stevenson.

Between that and the catch last week, exactly what Stevenson had to do to stay in contention for the 53. Going to be hard to sneak him to PS.

Let’s goooo!!!!

Alright. Enough with these injuries!

Not Zimmer! Hit him right on the bionic brace.

Might be onto something with Gilliam in the short yardage game. Impressive.

What a catch!