The Buffalo Bills won a back-and-forth affair on Sunday, defeating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 44-32 in an entertaining matchup. Both offenses came to play, and both teams actually had to resort to the other thing they do on offense in order to be successful.
Whereas the Bills have been a juggernaut running the football, they were unable to find momentum on the ground in this one. Conversely, the Bucs have been great when passing and mediocre when running; on Sunday, that was not the case.
Our players to watch were a mixed bag, as well. Some contributed plenty, some didn’t...
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Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott benched second-year wide receiver Keon Coleman on Sunday, making him a healthy scratch. The reason Coleman was inactive was he was late to a team meeting. It is the third benching of Coleman’s young career following being benched for one drive in Week 5 of the 2025 season and a full quarter in 2024.
According to reports, the Bills were going to play Coleman despite a lackluster effort against the Miami Dolphins in Week 10, where he half-heartedly jogged through routes. Once he was late to the meeting, it forced the Bills’ hand.
It...
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The Houston Texans will be hosting the Buffalo Bills on Thursday Night Football this week, but the AFC South team could be missing a key part of their roster.
Quarterback C.J. Stroud suffered a concussion before halftime back in Week 9 as the Texans fell to the Denver Broncos. The concussion is the second of the third-year quarterback’s career with the first coming in his rookie season. Stroud has failed to make much progress in moving through the NFL’s concussion protocol and, as a result, has been not participated in a practice since the injury.
The league requires players to...
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Another week, another Josh Allen NFL record. Well that isn’t exactly accurate. He set a few NFL records on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Josh Allen is the best scoring quarterback in NFL history.
On Sunday, Josh Allen scored his 290th NFL touchdown, passing Peyton Manning (288) for the most total touchdowns by a player before age 30. Allen turns 30 this offseason, so he still has plenty of games to extend that lead.
Josh Allen passes Tom Brady and Drew Brees for new NFL record -------------------------------------------------------------...
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A fair majority of the NFL fans have a sympathetic heart for the Detroit Lions — a team that’s never appeared in a Super Bowl. In recent seasons, the franchise’s luck has changed thanks to the solution found in the equation made up of head coach Dan Campbell and quarterback Jared Goff (plus a generous amount of first-round selections). Campbell continues to impress as a head coach who also knows how to scout coordinator and assistant coaching talent.
The 6-3 Lions appear headed for another playoff run (even if they’re currently staring up at the Chicago Bears), and tonight’s game...
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The Buffalo Bills won on Sunday in convincing fashion, moving to 7-3. They got some help around the AFC and moved up a spot in the process.
The New England Patriots won on Thursday to secure the top spot in both the AFC East and the AFC as a whole. Buffalo is a game and a half out of first place in the AFC East and need help.
The Indianapolis Colts were on a bye and lost their top spot to the Patriots in the process.
The Pittsburgh Steelers won to stay atop the AFC North.
The reason the Bills...
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Winning is a tremendous salve. As it relates to these Buffalo Bills: Winning is the only thing that matters. It would appear that One Bills Drive got the memo following their trip to South Beach. We’re not here to dwell on that mistake any longer, since there’s a far better performance against a far better NFL team out of Florida that needs focus.
Entering Week 11’s game, there was a bit of noise about Buffalo’s struggles to pass the ball and what that might mean in having to contend with a healthy dose of wind off Lake Erie. It meant...
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An NFL final score of 44 to 32 has never happened in NFL history until today. It is the fourth scorigami in the NFL this season.
An NFL “Scorigami” is a final score that’s never happened before in the history of the league. Scorigami has been happening more and more as teams use analytics to go for two, offenses are scoring more points than ever, and sometimes weird stuff just happens.
Thie is the 1095th unique score in NFL history and the fourth Scorigami this season. The Buffalo Bills’ thrilling 41-40 Week 1 game and the 40-40 tie between the...
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The first half between the Buffalo Bills and Tampa Bay Buccaneers is in the books. It’s been an entertaining back-and-forth half of football, with the Bills leading 21-20 as they hit the locker room. Things didn’t start off so well for Buffalo’s offense, which took the field after an impressive stop by defense to hold the Buccaneers pointless on their opening drive.
In trying to avoid a safety, quarterback Josh Allen made one of the most bone-headed plays of the season in fish-tossing the football out of the end zone toward wide receiver Khalil Shakir. The defense rushed back out...
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Buffalo Bills wide receiver Gabe Davis was in the starting lineup Sunday for his first game action of the season. Davis was signed to the practice squad on September 4th as he was recovering from a long-term leg injury.
The Bills made Keon Coleman a healthy scratch on Sunday for missing a team meeting on Friday. Davis is likely to play in Coleman’s place.
Davis was a fourth-round pick of the Bills in 2020 NFL Draft. He started 47 games for the Bills from 2020 to 2023, playing in 64 total. He parlayed that into a big free-agent contract with...
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Week 11 pits two 2017 NFL Draft class quarterbacks against each other. Josh Allen and Baker Mayfield will suit up in Orchard Park, NY to keep their respective teams from sliding after both suffered losses last week. Sitting at 6-3, the Buffalo Bills and Tampa Bay Buccaneers will most likely be a close game with some key matchups being the difference-makers.
The Bills truly need to win this game to stay relevant in the AFC East, a division which has seen the England Patriots dominate this season. After a billion years of hearing that phrase, Bills fans don’t feel like...
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The Buffalo Bills head into their Week 11 game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in search of answers. At 6-3, the Bills still have plenty to look forward to in the coming weeks as they make a push toward the postseason, but there’s zero room for error right now. Yet the eye test doesn’t reveal a palpable sense of urgency, and instead presents an offense too often devoid of rhythm and momentum for large chunks of games.
We’ve spent weeks discussing the team’s observed issues on offense and defense, which, at some point, becomes burdensome if changes can’t or won’t...
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