Buffalo Bills: Bracing For the Inclemant Weather Impact
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00:03 It's time for game number five, the opening game of the tripleheader on
00:08 Sunday in Western New York.
00:11 And boy, it's going to look like Western New York off the shores of Lake Erie
00:16 on Sunday afternoon.
00:18 Heavy wind and lake effect snow expected and in the forecast for Sunday in
00:24 Orchard Park.
00:26 The Buffalo Bills and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
00:28 The Bill is the two seed in the AFC.
00:30 The Steelers the seventh and final seed in the AFC playoff picture.
00:34 A total working its way down 35 and a half.
00:38 The largest spread of the weekend.
00:40 It is 10 points in favor of Buffalo.
00:43 Donnie, let's just start with a quick math of it all.
00:46 For the Buffalo Bills to cover a 10-point double-digit spread where the game is
00:52 expected to have 35 points or so. How does Buffalo even get that done?
00:58 They don't get it done.
01:01 And like again, this coming like I think the Buffalo Bills win this game.
01:04 They're the better football team.
01:05 But in what you know world are we living where the Buffalo Bills are a 10-point
01:09 favorite. Now, maybe you could say, okay, you know, obviously we don't we look
01:13 at the weather conditions and the way the teams played this season.
01:16 I understand that but this also isn't the same Pittsburgh Steelers team that it
01:19 was early in the season and midway through it where Kenny Pickett and or
01:22 Mitchell Trubisky was your quarterback and they couldn't move the football at all.
01:25 You actually have a legitimate passing game now, but let's even remove that
01:28 band from the conversation. You have a team of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
01:31 That is the underdog. What's the ultimate equalizer in sports?
01:34 It's weather conditions. Normally, you know, oh the with the rains coming down
01:37 hard. It makes both teams here, you know have to play what you saw that last
01:40 week in Baltimore, right? You're the backup playing for the Baltimore Ravens
01:43 sticking around the Steelers. Why because that's what happens when the
01:46 elements even the playing field. So now you're telling me here that the Buffalo
01:50 Bills just because they play in Western New York and they're used to those
01:53 temperatures are going to be the better team. I know as well as you do Ben, you
01:56 take a look a couple years ago. Oh Bill Belichick went in there through three
01:59 passes when it was heavy heavy winds in cold conditions and beat this football
02:04 team. I can't believe we'll start right there that this line is 10 points.
02:09 I can't either and Buffalo has more than a touchdown favorite this year has not
02:15 been good covering numbers two and six against the spread when they have laid a
02:19 touchdown or more this season six and two straight up, which means they've lost
02:24 twice outright when they've been favored by the oddsmakers to at least win by a
02:29 touchdown. Meanwhile, death taxes, Mike Tomlin winning at least eight games and
02:35 winning as an underdog the Steelers this year as a dog are both six and four
02:40 against the spread in six and four straight up. I mentioned it earlier Donnie
02:45 when we preview the first game tomorrow in Houston, the Texans the Ravens in the
02:50 Steelers three teams at a 32 in the NFL booked as an underdog multiple times this
02:56 year that have a winning record outright. The Steelers are six and four, but they
03:01 have never been more than a four and a half point underdog in any of those 10
03:05 games booked as a dog this year last week terrible weather for the Steelers
03:11 and a must win game Mason Rudolph led them to that against the Ravens reserves
03:15 in the regular season finale in Baltimore 17 to 10 was the final score staying
03:20 under a total that was in the low 30s. The Steelers did go over in their
03:25 previous four games entering the regular season finale, but obviously with 35 and
03:30 a half as the over under we are not expecting a ton of points come Sunday in
03:37 Buffalo and let's start there with the quarterback comparison. The Steelers are
03:41 in this spot behind Mason Rudolph because they won their final three games of the
03:47 regular season all with Mason Rudolph as the starting quarterback, but he's not
03:52 expected to do all that much through the air. Neither is Josh Allen. And again
03:57 that takes into account the weather forecast for Sunday in Buffalo in the
04:01 heavy winds that we expect it is estimated Donnie around 20 to 25 mile per
04:06 hour sustained winds and those gusts on Sunday in Western New York.
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