Buffalo Dominates Pittsburgh with Strong Rushing Game

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00:00Well, speaking of Buffalo, though, I got to have a spot against Pittsburgh.

00:03They get it 26-7.

00:06What did you make of Buffalo's, by the way, who were down at the break 7-3,

00:12ended up a pretty dominant win over the Steelers?

00:16You know, what I took away from it was that I was on the under on this game.

00:19I wasn't expecting a whole ton of points.

00:22The rushing performance by Buffalo was fantastic.

00:25I expected them to lean into the rushing game.

00:27I didn't expect it to be this extreme and, like, this productive

00:30because, you know, missing offensive linemen is a huge deal.

00:34So I didn't think they were going to be planning on dropping Josh Allen back 30, 35 times

00:39when T.J. Watt is on the other side.

00:41They would lean into the rushing game to try and take that pressure away from coming off a game

00:45where it took eight sacks against Houston on Thursday night last week or the week before,

00:50whatever you want to call it.

00:51So I'm very impressed with their run game,

00:53and it's good to see that they have that balance overall.

00:56I'm, you know, interested to see how we see the receiver core develop

01:00when it's all said and done, knowing that they have Cooks down.

01:04But I just see that as another piece of the puzzle rather than a true playmaker

01:08and a difference maker.

01:10I think for Buffalo, you needed a win.

01:14But I don't leave this game feeling different than I did entering,

01:19which is I don't trust this team to go on a deep run.

01:22I really don't.

01:23I look at Buffalo, and I think defensively they are still super vulnerable,

01:27and I think Josh Allen has brought the turnovers back,

01:31and I think that that is as likely to cost them as anything.

01:34You know, people, I'm not trying to get into crazy debates,

01:37but I'm not a believer that Josh Allen is going to inevitably win a Super Bowl,

01:42like many people are.

01:42There's a lot of people who are steadfast in that the talent will eventually rise,

01:47and Josh will get one.

01:48That's not who I am.

01:49That's not what I believe.

01:50I believe the opposite of that.

01:52But could maybe, you know, you are looking at an AFC playoffs

01:56that are supposed to set up perfectly for him.

01:59I leave this game.

02:01I say, okay, listen, you know, again, great job power on the rock.

02:04James Cook had a 17-and-a-half attempts prop.

02:07He gets 32 carries, right?

02:08I mean, that's smart football at the end of the day.

02:11You're down a couple of tackles,

02:13but this is just not going to move the needle for me that much on Buffalo.

02:20The reality is so much of this has to do with, you know,

02:23who in the AFC is really overwhelming anyone.

02:28Let me mix this in because we're going to pair –

02:29I want to kind of pair Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Cincinnati all together, Tom.

02:33You're not overwhelmed by anything you saw out of Denver

02:36on Sunday night against Washington, I know.

02:38I'm not.

02:39And to the point with the Bills, I would say that they've got to win

02:42because it's more about Pittsburgh just being a dead team essentially at this point.

02:46And when it comes to the remainder teams in the AFC,

02:48we'll obviously get to the Pats, but Denver does not impress me.

02:52The Ravens are coming off of a game that I didn't know how they could possibly lose that game,

02:57and they somehow managed to do that.

02:59The Colts shouldn't be at that price.

03:01You know, I know you're not super sold on the Chargers,

03:03but you'd have to say the Chargers are far more interesting than the Colts at this point.

03:07There's no one in the AFC that is a standout option that I'm running to the window to bet.

03:12There's a jumbled mess of teams.

03:14Everyone has holes, which makes things exciting because we're not dealing with,

03:18you know, some team at the top of the mountain as we have with Kansas City in the past few years.

03:22So I think this year is very, very exciting,

03:23but I can poke holes in every single team on that list.

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