Buffalo Rumblings
The Buffalo Bills are 8-4 and fresh off a physical beatdown of the Pittsburgh Steelers. While Pittsburgh may take a few more days to get the stink out of their stadium, Buffalo is on to Cincinnati. It’s the Bills’ first game at Highmark Stadium since Week 11, back on November 16.
Entering Week 14, FanDuel Sportsbook has the Buffalo Bills as 5.5-point (-5.5) favorites over the Cincinnati Bengals, with an over/under set at O/U 52.5.
Quarterback Joe Burrow returned to action with the Bengals in Week 13, following surgery to repair a turf toe injury that happened in Week 2. Burrow’s return sparked Cincinnati to a blowout win over the Baltimore Ravens, which officially put them back in the playoff hunt at 4-8.
Given the record disparity, some may see this game as a foregone conclusion in favor of Buffalo. But the Bills have yet to defeat a Burrow-led Bengals since he landed in Cincinnati. Both of those games came back in 2023 (with a third that went uncounted in 2022 due to safety Damar Hamlin’s life-threatening injury) — one during January 2023 of the 2022 NFL season, and the most recent in early November of the 2023 NFL season.
The Bills-Bengals all-time series is tied at 17-17-0, with Josh Allen posting a 1-2 record in three games dating back to 2019.
