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Holton, Sutton, Alualu and Duck

From the notebook of a sportswriter who’s ready for a break after one of the more newsworthy and, frankly, exciting 2-4 starts to a season in memory:

• So, they beat the Chargers with a third-string quarterback making his first start and kept alive flickering hopes of a revival without Ben Roethlisberger, and possibly their most dominant defensive player, Stephon Tuitt.

• Since I began covering the team in 1995, the Steelers started 2-4 three times — 2013, 2006, 2003 — and all three times that skid was extended to 2-6 with two more losses. The latest

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