The Buffalo Bills will host the Oakland Raiders at 1 o’clock on Sunday, and there isn’t enough buzz around a game which could decide these two team’s fate for the rest of the season.
Buffalo sits just behind the New England Patriots in the AFC East.
Sunday’s game could either spring them to 5-2 or send them spiraling down to 4-3, and there is a big difference between the two. The AFC East is having an up year, and the Bills can not let the Dolphins or the Patriots gain any ground on them.
Buffalo can not let any games slip away with a brutal stretch coming later in the season when they face New Orleans, Kansas City, New England x 2, and Miami x 2. These are winnable games if Buffalo can keep trending in the right direction.
Oakland Raiders
Oakland is currently last in their division with a 3-4 record, but two other teams in the AFC West also have three wins. 3-5 is hard to rally from and make a run at the playoffs, but if the Raiders get to 4-4, they have a legit shot at contending for a wild card berth.
Colin Cowherd said that this game would decipher which of these two teams is a pretender, and which is a contender.
This is a game between two teams that have been playing good football, but also suffering tough, close losses here and there.
Whichever team gets the win will look back on this game later in the season, and most likely remember it as the turning point in their season. These mid-season games can be so crucial to a team trying to get to the next level.
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