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Week 16: Bills at Bears on Christmas Eve


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4 hours ago, NUT said:

The weather is going to suck. The Bears can run, the Bills not so much. Not liking the odds.

 

If the game was in a dome I'd feel better about it.

Rush rankings:

Bears - 1st

Bills - 8th

 

Rush defense rankings:

Bears - 27th

Bills - 6th

 

I think we'll be fine. 

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1 hour ago, Amaru523 said:

Rush rankings:

Bears - 1st

Bills - 8th

 

Rush defense rankings:

Bears - 27th

Bills - 6th

 

I think we'll be fine. 

Yep. I think it's because people disregard Allen's contributions to the run game. He's still going to run. His yards still count.

5 hours ago, NUT said:

The weather is going to suck. The Bears can run, the Bills not so much. Not liking the odds.

 

If the game was in a dome I'd feel better about it.

You're a NUT

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3 hours ago, LeGOATski said:

Yep. I think it's because people disregard Allen's contributions to the run game. He's still going to run. His yards still count.

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This is one week where the other teams QB rushes for more than Josh. Bills have typically been good at taking away a teams strength and making them beat you with another area. I suspect the Bills will try to contain Fields, stop the run, and make the Bears beat them with the pass. From everything I have read and seen, Fields strength is the long ball and he has struggled at times with the short “touch” passes (sound familiar to anyone we know’s first year or two?). The weather could possibly help the Bills. 
 

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4 minutes ago, atlbillsfan1975 said:

This is one week where the other teams QB rushes for more than Josh. Bills have typically been good at taking away a teams strength and making them beat you with another area. I suspect the Bills will try to contain Fields, stop the run, and make the Bears beat them with the pass. From everything I have read and seen, Fields strength is the long ball and he has struggled at times with the short “touch” passes (sound familiar to anyone we know’s first year or two?). The weather could possibly help the Bills. 
 

I think it helps, for sure. The Bills figured out Lamar Jackson and I don't think Fields poses any more of a threat. They should be able to bottle him up.

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Is it just me or is the "we don't adjust and always stay in the same nickel defense" the new "Josh is inaccurate."  It is a statement that I hear over and over again that is, well, inaccurate.   Every time we have a team run on us (Green Bay, Miami), we hear "power running teams are going to destroy us."  Yeah...that's why teams like Cleveland with Chub, or Tennessee with Henry, or the Patriots with Stevenson, or Jets with Zonovan Knight have each racked up like 500 yards rushing against us.  Wait...they haven't?  But if a poor rushing team like Miami can rush for 200 yards, then what happened?  Could it be that we played different differences against these different teams even if we used the same personnel? If anything we over scheme (which may be necessary when missing someone like Hyde).  Zach Wilson, was hitting wide open receivers against us.  Granted his stats weren't great but they were better than his 50% for 90 yards that we saw last night.   Meanwhile, Green Bay ran the ball because Rodgers couldn't find open receivers.  This defense actually does a good job of taking away what they perceive to be the opposing offense's strength, but make themselves vulnerable to the other team's weakness.  Much has been made about the Dolphins running against us.  Yes, Mostert had 101 yards rushing against us in the first quarter...but that means he only had 37 yards in the other three, which is not great.  Our defense changed!!  Of course, that left us exposed to Waddle getting open.  My point is we need to stop claiming our defense doesn't adjust.  It does...even if you seem the same players (including Taron Johnson) out there.

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7 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Why is it on CBS? Aren't NFC home games usually on FOX?

 

What's the explanation?

 

6 hours ago, chongli said:

 

The NFL now allows the two networks to get a number of games from the other conference each season. ThE NFL makes the final decision, but the networks can state their preferences. This is one of them.

 

EDIT: here is a good explanation from a few years ago from a FOX affiliate in Wisconsin:

 

https://fox11online.com/sports/packers-and-nfl/an-explanation-of-the-guidelines-for-nfl-tv-coverage


"In general, Fox airs NFC games, CBS airs AFC games. For non-prime-time games between teams in different conferences, the network of the visiting team gets the rights (in most cases). That's why CBS has the Oakland at Packers game. However, starting four years ago, it became easier to shift games between Fox & CBS on Sundays, regardless of conference affiliation. This "cross flex" tool may be used to even out the number of games aired on each network, or to get a high-interest game more distribution - even if it's on the 'wrong' network. This year, that tool is being used, such that Fox is airing the Denver at Green Bay game, and CBS is airing the Packers at Chargers game."

 

 

 

 

The general rule is that the network for Sunday games is based upon the visiting team.  CBS gets AFC, FOX gets NFC.  The only exception is the “cross flex” rule noted above.

 

This week is following the general rule — Bills are the visitors, CBS has the game.

 

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