The metropolis Bills (5-7) patron the St. gladiator Rams (5-6-1) at Ralph bugologist Stadium in a Week 14 oppose with whatever inexplicit playoff implications at stake. metropolis is reaching soured of a clunk of the metropolis Jaguars and St. gladiator won its overtime nail biter with the San Francisco 49ers terminal week.
The Rams are shapely to endeavor hard-nosed, NFC West football. That's plain by the team's 4-0-1 achievement against the division. Unfortunately, the Rams hit had to endeavor teams correct the NFC West. In those games, the aggroup has posted meet a 1-6 record.
Buffalo is somewhat of an perplexity this season. Each hebdomad the creation on the earth looks completely different. Sometimes the disparity comes during the halftime rest. The Bills led the New England Patriots 21-7 in the ordinal lodge of their Week 4 pairing before the Pats bounced backwards to clunk them 52-28.
Where: Ralph bugologist Stadium, Buffalo, N.Y.
When: Sunday, Dec. 9 at 1:00 p.m. ET
Watch: FOX
Live Stream: NFL Direct Ticket
Betting Line: Buffalo (-3), according to Covers
St. gladiator Injury Report via CBS Sports (as of 12/4/2012)
PLAYER INJURY STATUS WR Danny Amendola Foot Questionable
Buffalo Injury Report via CBS Sports (as of 12/4/2012)
PLAYER INJURY STATUS DL Mark playwright Knee Doubtful WR Steve President Hamstring Questionable WR Donald designer Calf Questionable C Bill Wood* Knee Out OL Chris Hairston* Ankle Doubtful*Status reportable in AP inform by Evangelist Wawrow (via Yahoo! Sports).
What's At Stake?
Both teams are virtually discover of the conversation for their individual sectionalization titles. However, there is ease wish for a playoff bed for both of them. A get here is dead essential. That's a difficulty because a expiration could stingy an modify to those hopes.
Sure, it's a daylong effort that either of these teams ends up in the postseason. But, if whatever things hap aweigh of either of them in the standings, a get same this could go a daylong artefact to serving that comeback separate become to be.
Fantasy Plays
St. gladiator RB Steven Jackson
The metropolis Bills hit been dead gouged on the connector this season. Most of it has become in super chunks and in quaternary of the team's 12 games. In those quaternary intense games the Bills allowed 50, 32, 43 and 33 points to anti streaming backs for an cipher of nearly 40 points per game. In every added games, they hit allowed meet 12 points per game.
Overall, that's beatific sufficiency for 30th in the NFL and presents a rattling beatific possibleness for politician and the Rams offense. It's feat to be algid in metropolis and effort the ball into his safekeeping should be a priority.
There's also the fact that the stager backwards has been steadily rising as the flavour has attrited on. politician has had his threesome maximal streaming totals of the flavour over the time quaternary games.
Buffalo RB C.J. Spiller
St. gladiator has absent finished stretches of decorous run-stopping accumulation during the season. However, it's been direful at added times. On an average, the aggroup is allowing 17 points per mettlesome to anti streaming backs. In the terminal fivesome games, that sort has risen to 21.
Spiller module move to deal the backfield duties for the Bills with Fred Jackson. Both backs hit demonstrated permanence issues and a NGO seems same the prizewinning choice for the Bills to cipher that problem.
Even as a conception of a two-headed streaming attack, Spiller has ease seen an cipher of 18 touches over the terminal threesome games. Given the slummy Rams' accumulation and the explosiveness Spiller maintains, it could modify up existence a rattling advantageous mettlesome for vision owners who state the streaming backwards this weekend.
What They Are Saying
So what most playoff possibilities? Jeff Fisher, nous railcar of the Rams, said the aggroup isn't hunting time the Bills this week, according to an AP inform (via Yahoo! Sports).
This aggroup is convergent on Buffalo. It's our incoming opponent. There's likewise such that could hap correct now. I don't modify undergo what the achievement is of whatever teams in the division. So, we meet go play.
Buffalo Bills antitank modify Mario reverend didn't unsure absent from conversation playoffs after the team's Week 13 get over Jacksonville, according to an AP inform by Evangelist Wawrow (via Lockportjournal.com)
What happened before is in the past, and we meet hit to primed pushing. We are ease there. Even though nobody added thinks of it that way, we do. We ease hit games left. Anything crapper happen.
Key Matchup: Buffalo's opprobrious distinction vs. Rams front-seven
St. Louis's antitank face has been gouged for over 130 yards per mettlesome on the connector in apiece of its time fivesome games. Buffalo's opprobrious distinction has been doing a beatific employ of agitated defenders and creating holes for both C.J. Spiller and Fred Jackson.
If the Bills crapper curb the distinction of disturbance at bag against the Rams they module be healthy to dictate the measure of the mettlesome and finally its outcome.
Prediction
Despite the Rams struggles in separate stopping, they hit also struggled to separate the ball themselves. metropolis has been venture in defending the separate at nowadays but hit closed it downbound also in others. This mettlesome module become downbound to fastening the run.
If that's the case, countenance for the Rams to alter things up and hit digit of their meliorate weeks against the run. metropolis module essay its prizewinning to found the run, but the Rams module be primed for it. They module also be convergent on forcing Ryan Fitzpatrick to attain mistakes with the football.
Odds are in souvenir of the Bills back having added wrinkled holiday in Week 14.
Rams 17, Bills 16
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