Daily News & Links: Bills Ran Same Run Play; Steelers Need Complete Rebuild

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🏈 The Buffalo Bills set the record for most rushing yards by an opposing team at Acrisure Stadium with 249 in Sunday’s 26-7 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bills offensive coordinator Joe Brady just spammed the same play since the Steelers couldn’t stop it. The Bills ran the same run play a whopping 29 times for 183 yards.

“I’ve never seen a team run the same play as much as they ran it today and have as much success as they had,” Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt said after the game. “I mean, I’m out of words for it.”

Watt said what the Bills did to the Steelers defense was an “ass kicking in all areas.”

🏈 ESPN’s Benjamin Solak believes it’s time for the Steelers to rebuild.

“The evidence that Mike Tomlin is the leader to pull them from this spiral is diminishing rapidly. While I remain confident that Tomlin is a good coach… Look at how many of the Steelers’ young players or veterans on small contracts are positive contributors, it’s clear that his overarching organizational philosophy needs modernization. If there ever was an offseason to trade Tomlin, rip the roster down to the studs and start to rebuild, it’s this one,” Solak wrote.

🏈 Jim Rome agrees with James Harrison the Pittsburgh Steelers aren’t the Steelers anymore.

🏈 Asante Samuel Sr. blames DK Metcalf for Aaron Rodgers struggles.

“He’s a non-factor. He is most of the problem. At the end of the day, Aaron Rodgers needs someone to throw to. He’s used to having elite receivers that can suddenly get open. DK Metcalf can’t provide that for Aaron Rodgers,” Samuel said on his Say What Needs To Be Said podcast. “And DK Metcalf is the reason that Aaron Rodgers is looking so old. Because he keeps trying to throw DK Metcalf the football and he is not even getting an ounce of separation, especially when he’s going against press coverage. Aaron Rodgers continues to try to look for him and then he makes everything look terrible and old and outplayed and outdated.”

🏈 Ben Roethlisberger said Arthur Smith’s offense looks a lot like Matt Canada’s.

“We’ve had different offensive coordinators, different defensive coordinators, but it’s kind of been the same story. This looks a lot like Matt Canada’s offense,” Roethlisberger said on his Footbahlin podcast.

🏈 Ben Roethlisberger doesn’t understand Arthur Smith’s usage of Pat Freiermuth.

“It seems like if you’re not an Arthur Smith guy, you’re left behind. It seems like he doesn’t like Pat Freiermuth, obviously,” Roethlisberger said. “He didn’t get one ball thrown his way. You pay Pat Freiermuth a lot of money. Use him! You paid a guy $150 million in DK Metcalf. Why does he have the same amount of catches as Kenneth Gainwell? Is that Aaron Rodgers, or is that the scheme? It seems like it’s a lot of scheme.”

🏈 According to Benjamin Solak, 66.4% of Rodgers’ passing yards have come after the catch, which is second only to 2011 A.J. Feeley in the past 15 years. That’s 713 quarterbacking seasons worth of sample.

🏈 Former NFL head coach and Steelers offensive coordinator Bruce Arians said if he was Tomlin he would want to get out of Pittsburgh.

🏈 Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson clapped back at Andrew Fillipponi of 93.7 The Fan.

Jackson wrote on X “Sayless” with a crying laughing emoji after Fillipponi said he was at the very least a little overrated during the Ravens’ loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Thanksgiving.

Jackson also called Fillipponi a hater.

“u know this wat Haters wait for,” Jackson wrote.

Jackson and the Ravens face the Pittsburgh Steelers at M&T Bank Stadium on Sunday.

🏈The Steelers haven’t completed a downfield pass in 36 days. 0/13, three interceptions last five games combined on 20+ air passes, according to Ben Fennell of CBS Sports.

🏈 Mike Tomlin has now gone 62 straight games with seven or fewer points in the first quarter (64 games including playoffs) the longest streak by any Head coach before they were fired in NFL history.

STEELERS NOW CONTENT FROM DEC. 2

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🏈 Saunders: Steelers Shouldn’t Wait to Move On from Teryl Austin

🏈 Ben Roethlisberger Addresses Mike Tomlin’s Future with Steelers: ‘Maybe It’s Time’

🏈 Former Steelers Edge Rusher Heads Back to NFC

🏈 Former Steelers CB Signs with Saints

🏈 Browns Sign Recently Released Steelers LB

🏈 Steelers Claim All-Pro Wide Receiver Off Waivers

🏈 Steelers Surprisingly Release Former All-Pro Cornerback

🏈 Steelers Release 2-Time Super Bowl Champion Wide Receiver

🏈 Steelers Bring Back Recently Released Local Defensive Back

🏈 Tomlin: No Changes to Steelers Coaching Staff This Week