Buffalo Bills vs. Denver Broncos: Key Game Preview

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00:004.30 p.m. is our first action of the day today.

00:03Well, we're on the desk here.

00:04We're having fun, Joe.

00:04We're going to break these games down,

00:05see what happens over the final four games of Divisional Weekend,

00:08which then leads us next Sunday into Championship Weekend, Joe,

00:11and then two weeks off into the Super Bowl in San Francisco.

00:15Let's get to an AFC battle today.

00:16It's going to be the Buffalo Bills taking on the Denver Broncos.

00:19We started the show by talking about where these line movements have been going,

00:22and it started out as the Buffalo Bills as the public favorite early in the week,

00:26minus one and a half.

00:27As we went later in the week, you see the graphic on the screen there.

00:30Minus one and a half now to the Denver Broncos, Joe,

00:32and a total of 45 and a half.

00:34Weather conditions for this game, 35 degrees, no precipitation,

00:38and winds under five miles per hour.

00:40It's perfect weather conditions.

00:41Two teams used to being in cooler temperatures.

00:43We'll tee it up today, Joe, 4.30.

00:45Yeah, this is a really intriguing battle

00:48because there's two ways to look at it from the handicapping perspective.

00:53Josh Allen with the playoff experience, being Superman potentially,

00:57going up against one of the better defenses in the NFL,

01:00or Sean Payton, a Super Bowl winning coach with a team that's on rest,

01:05dominant home team that's 8-1 overall,

01:07and a rematch of last year that he had his first playoff game in Bo Nix, right?

01:12And I think when you look at this game,

01:14and you look at last week against Jacksonville,

01:17that team in Buffalo was much more experienced.

01:20They were ready for the opportunity.

01:22They seized the moment, not to take away from what Jacksonville was able to do,

01:27but when the game was on the line,

01:29they looked like an inexperienced football team,

01:31and the play calls with Trevor Lawrence put them at a disadvantage.

01:35And again, can Josh Allen do it and duplicate this in back-to-back road games

01:40against now a step-up in competition

01:43where they don't have the coaching advantage, I believe.

01:46They certainly don't have the defensive advantage.

01:48What they have is the quarterback advantage and then everybody else,

01:52but it's going to take a Herculean effort for Josh Allen, Donnie.

01:56250 and then maybe another 60 yards on the ground

01:59to potentially pull this game out.

02:01Now talk about this, Joe, too,

02:02because it used to be in the past, only a few short years ago,

02:05that we were lining up these NFL games in division-round action,

02:08and two teams were coming off the bye.

02:09Now only one team comes off the bye in each of the conferences, AFC and NFC.

02:13And again, the Denver Broncos are the number one seed.

02:15We just talked about how tough and a hard-fought victory that was

02:18against the Jacksonville Jaguars, and you took a lot of shrapnel.

02:2114 guys, Joe, on the injury report for the Buffalo Bills heading into this game

02:24when the Denver Broncos are looking to be fully rested, fully healthy,

02:27and at home, and a short price point here.

02:29Talk to me about that bye week and what that major advantage is this year.

02:32Well, if you're talking college football, then it's a disadvantage, right?

02:35Exactly, yeah.

02:36Because there was only one team that came off the bye in Indiana

02:39and was able to cover and win in dominating fashion.

02:43In the NFL, it's a different animal, but I believe in this circumstance

02:47to have Sean Payton, a Super Bowl coach that's been here,

02:50now with a young football team that they got their feet wet last year,

02:54lost to this in Buffalo, I think they'll be ready,

02:58and they approach it a little bit differently.

03:00And then here's the other factor.

03:02So Buffalo made some defensive adjustments last week, right?

03:05And they were able to basically contain Jacksonville's offense.

03:09They held them to 24 points.

03:11That was an offense that was averaging well over 30 over the last month

03:14of the regular season.

03:16Can they do it again against a much more physical team?

03:20And a quarterback in Bo Nix that's mobile, a rushing attack with R.J. Harvey

03:26and a heavy offensive line.

03:27And again, they're going to need James Cook to be a factor in this game,

03:31and I just don't know if they're able to run on that front seven on the road.

03:36If they can run the football with James Cook, that opens up everything else.

03:40But again, it's like a patchwork wide receiver core.

03:43Curtis Samuel comes back.

03:45We scraped off Brandon Cooks off the street.

03:48He made some dividends last week.

03:50Keyon Coleman with one catch.

03:52The consistency for Buffalo throughout the regular season

03:55with the wide receivers has not been there,

03:58and that is the main concern and main reason

04:01why I believe they're one and a half point underdog.

04:03That where I saw Houston from North Dakota.

04:10To the pointing of the railroad and offensive line

04:12on how I was trading,

04:17I think it was probably why I saw Chicago first in 2010

04:17whether or not letting any more air network

04:20searches or I was allowed

04:22the incident towards Guy in the church right now.

04:24I really wanted to go to be able to take advantage of

04:27what the mining capital has wanted to develop

04:28and finding how the agency coordinates

04:31in that world within land,

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