Bills Thursday: Call Your Shot

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I have a defensive battle

Buffalo 23 Detroit 21

Going to turn this into a mini contest. I’ll like the winner’s posts for one week
I’ll come up with an arbitrary scoring system later

HiFidelity : Buffalo 23-21
Wrath-SRT: Situational football and turnovers; Allen throws 2 interceptable balls; Bills win; Lions score a lot of points
Sofatso: Jameson Williams focuses on catching a ball; Lions despoil stadium’s christening
Thats2: Buffalo plays poorly at home early in the year; but wins by 2 scores
Tucker: Lions 44-41
Martymcfly2017: Buffalo by 2 scores, undrafted player steals Detroit’s lunch money; he still likes pizza; Lions 4 -3
StormGuyNovi: predicts a loss, only later clarifies this as a Lions loss
Alex_Analzone’s gut: Lions
checkmate260: Bills
FontesMustGo: Buffalo 35-20
relion: refuses to make a prediction
jah26: 50% 11 personnel usage; Detroit 24-20
wolfcub36: Lions eek out win with a lot of qualifiers
BigNatty: Lions 68-6
edmunder: Bills 48-24
JCHeff1979: koolaid flows like wine
jg729: We have not won in Buffalo since 1991 (the Packers were really pissed about that game, btw)
flip: Lions beat Buffalo, lose to Jets. Game goes under
Richard_Parker: this will be a high scoring game; Lions win
appeasethefblgods: Buffalo 43-24
TouchdownMyPants: Buffalo 41-31 (ed. will the Lions score exactly 31 every game?)
Lions4life: Buffalo 100-21
Sheepish: Buffalo 35-24
CMafia: Buffalo 35-14
jimno: Buffalo 34-30
lifetimelion: Detroit 38-35
Cappadocius: this game won’t be pretty
Lionheart: Buffalo 42-23
jane_doe: Buffalo 37-28
CasanovaJack1: mail it in, walk away healthy (too late)
WestCoastLionsFan: Bills by 5
Doctor_Love: emotional myopic posts 6387-18 (I will not be scoring this)
Lionpile: Buffalo 37-24
stephenboyd57: we hold them under 50 for sure
QBHATER90: Lions win
SufferingSelfCreated: Detroit 19-17, Buffalo misses game winning FG wide right
SlowDog: Buffalo 34-27
DetroitvsEverybody: Lions win via dominant defensive performance; secondary plays tits off; Bills make mistakes; Gibbs go off
Wolfhound32: Shootout and Jamo redeems himself
Sarge: Buffalo 38-34

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The Bills run defense stinks and the Lions passing defense stinks

Going to come down to situational football and turnovers.

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Defensive battle? Interesting. Just a contrarian hunch or is there an underlying reason?

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And they may be missing Cromer quite a bit. All time great OL coach. There run game was just okay yesterday.

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For all the hysteria yesterday, I’ll note that the current point spread on Thursday is Bills -3. Buffalo is fatally flawed too apparently.

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I could see it for sure. Bills have an inexplicable habit of playing poorly at home, especially early in the year. I really wish this wasn’t their stadium-opener, but maybe the pressure on that one gets to them. The Cowboys lost their stadium-opener to the Giants, I remember.

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Neither

That’s typically the counterintuitive outcome (IMO)

Everyone sees two great offenses and two terrible defenses and expects a 61-60 game, not accounting for single game variance and midweek adjustments.

I’m not predicting 10-7, just something below the o/u

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Especially right after week one

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Short week too. And the stadium opening pageantry might add some weirdness. I’d imagine that the players are creatures of habit.

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Jamo might actually be focused on catching the ball on Thursday. That gives me hope.

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https://x.com/fball_insights/status/2099592186115309747?s=46

Wow. Bills were in 13 50% of the time. I actually think that would play into our hands if they opt for it. I like our LBs quite a bit and that should help with explosive pass plays. In theory at least.

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44-41 Lions

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I had this a close loss but after yesterday its going to be 2 scores. Lions let a guy not drafted in fantasy football eat their lunch and hung their underwear on a flag pool. What do we think Allen is going to do

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I am predicting a loss. I think Bills and crowd will be super hyped to open in the new stadium. They showed last game they will give up on the run if it isn’t working and win with the pass. I think the Lions will give them a game, but I think the Bills win.

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We beat Dallas in Dallas when they opened their stadium.

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my gut says lions

whatever

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I will not be a bit disappointed opening the season at 1-1.
Hope the Lions surprise us all and pull off the upset, but it’s a long season. We need 11 wins, I don’t expect Bills to be one of the 11.

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Actually that was the Giants that beat them I think. But Dallas did lose their stadium-opener for sure

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Is Miller playing? Or will they be starting 3 backup OL week 2 already? :man_facepalming:

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Im not sure there’s any correlation between a new stadium and winning a game beyond regular old homefield advantage