Upsetting the Buffalo Bills won’t be easy. When two teams are similar, riding the wave of an up-and-down season, it’s easy to give the tiebreaker to the team with the better quarterback. There’s no question the Bills have that advantage with Josh Allen. So if Pittsburgh is going to beat Buffalo, they’ll have to find the winning edge elsewhere. That “elsewhere” is special teams.
The proof of that comes from Pittsburgh’s last win over Buffalo in 2021—a season-opening upset, with the game’s turning point coming on football’s third unit.
In a 13-10 nailbiter, Miles Killebrew blocked a fourth-quarter punt that LB Ulysees Gilbert III recovered for a touchdown.