When the Buffalo Bills hit the field against the Denver Broncos inside Empower Field at Mile High, they’ll do so with one of the league’s most experienced active kickers who spent seven campaigns in Denver between the 2007 and 2013 NFL seasons. Now 41, kicker Matt Prater may be in rarified air as someone well-suited to provide the stabilizing kicking force Buffalo needs to come out on top in the Divisional Round matchup on Saturday.
To understand why and how Prater won the starting role for the Bills, one needs to look back to the summer of 2025. Buffalo entered...
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Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Joe Brady isn’t just preparing for the Denver Broncos this weekend, he also has a second head coach interview lined up. After a request to interview for the Baltimore Ravens’ head coach job, Joe Brady has also received a request to interview for the Miami Dolphins head coach job, per the Palm Beach Post.
Brady is from Pembroke Pines, Florida, about 15 miles from the Dolphins’ Hard Rock Stadium.
During the 2025 offseason, the New York Jets, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Chicago Bears requested interviews with Brady. This year, the Baltimore Ravens have requested...
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The Denver Broncos are going to be playing in their coldest game of the season on Saturday when they face the Buffalo Bills. Normally that weather would likely be in Denver’s advantage, but against the cold-weather Bills, the Broncos are out of practice in the cold temps in 2025/2026.
Every game in Denver this year has kicked off with a temperature over 60 degrees. That streak is going to be snapped on Sunday with kickoff temps in the high 30s approaching 40. By the end of the game, temperatures could be in the 20s.
The coldest temperature at kickoff for...
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Now that we’re full-on into the playoffs, it’s time to stop looking in the rearview with our Secret Superstars series, and start looking forward to the next game with Postseason X-Factors. The principle is the same — using game tape and metrics to uncover those hidden gems for every team who are primed to bring their best when their franchises need it the most.
*The Buffalo Bills have quite the depleted receiver corps right now, and though Josh Allen has other ways to make plays, somebody from that group would be well-served to step up against the Denver Broncos’ rabid...
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It’s the NFL playoffs. Win or go home. When the stakes are this high, you do anything it takes to win the game. We saw Buffalo Bills wide receiver Tyrell Shavers play on what turned out to be a torn ACL as the ultimate highlight of that mentality. That’s not to disparage the lesser tales of grit either.
The Bills took a beating against a Jacksonville Jaguars team that seemed intent on causing harm at times. In the end, Buffalo took home the W. In addition to their grit, there was one other secret. They were willing to play outside...
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The sixth-seeded Buffalo Bills rallied past the third-seeded Jacksonville Jaguars in a Wild Card thriller, prevailing 27-24 for the franchise’s first road playoff win in 33 years, and the first road playoff victory in the Josh Allen/Sean McDermott tenure in Western New York.
Before we fully turn our attention to Buffalo’s AFC Divisional round clash with the top-seeded Denver Broncos Saturday afternoon, today’s edition of Buffalo Rumblinks leads off with final thoughts and observations on Buffalo’s Wild Card triumph in Jacksonville.
Linked below: Examining Josh Allen’s...
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The hits just keep coming for the Buffalo Bills. The team’s Wild Card win against the Jacksonville Jaguars proved to be costly to active roster, especially at wide receiver. On Tuesday, head coach Sean McDermott revealed that wide receiver Tyrell Shavers suffered a torn ACL in action last Sunday.
This, after wide receiver Gabe Davis was lost for the season due to a torn ACL suffered against the Jaguars during a brutal tackling sequence. While not yet official, it’s believed that Shavers has played his last down of these playoffs, now set to join Davis on Injured Reserve (IR).
Remarkably,...
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The Buffalo Bills announced a flurry of roster moves Tuesday, just four days ahead of their Divisional Round playoff matchup with the Denver Broncos. Buffalo placed wide receiver Gabe Davis on Injured Reserve (IR), signed wide receiver Kristian Wilkerson to the practice squad, signed offensive lineman Nick Broeker to a reserve/future contract, and designated both wide receiver Curtis Samuel and defensive tackle Ed Oliver to return from IR.
Davis, 26, tore his ACL in Buffalo’s 27-24 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday. He had two catches for 24 yards in the game. In six games this season, Davis caught...
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Due to the performance of head official Brad Allen and his playoff crew, I don’t believe the usual clips I do of key flags makes sense so there’ll be none of that below. Do I, noted ref apologist, believe that Brad Allen and company did such a great job that a review is unnecessary? Not at all.
In fact I, noted ref apologist, don’t think video is necessary this time around because I agree with the masses on this one. That was a catch, the Jaguars did not get set before the half, and there were at least a couple...
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The Buffalo Bills traveled south to face the Jacksonville Jaguars in a Wild Card playoff game for the second time in head coach Sean McDermott’s tenure. Unlike the last time, however, the Bills prevailed, winning 27-24 in a hard-fought contest that featured plenty of back-and-forth moments and a wild fourth quarter.
Buffalo took the lead in the first quarter, gave that lead back, then took the lead and held it through the third quarter. After that, there were four lead changes in the final period, with the final lead change being the one that put the Bills on top.
It...
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There’s just one more game to play before the NFL Wild Card round of the playoffs comes to an end. Playing in the rather non-traditional postseason window of Monday Night Football, the Pittsburgh Steelers host the Houston Texans.
Buffalo Bills fans likely have strong opinions about tonight’s game, whether that be due to the scheduling fubar the NFL has wrought unto the Bills and San Francisco 49ers, or which team would make for the best potential matchup against Buffalo. Though many will say that it’s tough to win twice against the same team in a given season, lots of Bills...
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The Buffalo Bills will head pretty far west to take on the Denver Broncos next Saturday for a Divisional Round playoff game. The matchup has invited lots of conversation, with much of it due to when the game is happening. The Broncos earned a bye during the Wild Card round as the AFC’s one seed. That gave Denver extra rest, and now they have an even better advantage thanks to Buffalo having to prep under time constraints for Saturday.
The biggest detriment to the Bills here is their injury situation, which only worsened following the win over the Jacksonville Jaguars....
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