Wait, was this a playoff game? It’s only late November, but it felt like early January at Acrisure Stadium.

That’s how much the Steelers’s 26-7 romp at the hands of the Bills resembled one of their typical postseason failures. This beat-down Sunday was just ahead of schedule.

The Steelers actually had a 7-3 lead at halftime and ball-in-hand coming out of the break, but that only set the stage for the Bills to break Aaron Rodgers — or almost, at least. Joey Bosa’s strip-sack that led to a 17-yard return touchdown by Christian Benford gave the Bills a 10-7 lead 16 seconds into the third quarter, and it was quicksand from there for the Steelers (6-6).

Rodgers had a cut on his nose that required a lengthy trip to the medical tent, and eventually a bandage on it that made him an easy target

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