And in Week 2, they beat a team they were supposed to beat, long far from a given with this franchise.

“It’s huge. You want to start banking games early in the season because you know late in the year it definitely pays dividends when you get into November, December, when you start playing for playoff spots,” linebacker Lorenzo Alexander said.

“And you don’t want to be playing from behind and feel like you have to win every single game. You want to be sitting in an advantageous spot to where hopefully you’re playing for maybe home field or the division, and these early games that sometimes people kind of disregard, can come back and bite you, so it’s huge. Even though it’s a nondivision, nonconference game, it’s huge as far as what we want to do as we move along in the season.”

Yes, we’re two games into the season and one of the team’s most experienced players is talking playoffs.

But here’s the thing – he’s not wrong. And that wasn’t the end of the conversation.

The Bills are 2-0 for the first time since 2014. But while the perception of some football fans might change, Alexander and the rest of the veterans in the Buffalo locker room understand they haven’t accomplished much. Not yet.