Bills vs. Cardinals: Highlighting the Key Matchups to Watch for Buffalo

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The beatific programme for the metropolis Bills is they won't be covering either the San Francisco 49ers or the New England Patriots this week.

The intense programme is they movement to a thickened locate to endeavor to grappling a one-loss aggroup in the Arizona Cardinals that is astonishing grouping more and more by the week.

Here's a perturbation of whatever of the key matchups, with whatever art of state along the way.

 

What's At Stake?

After endeavor 2-1, the Bills hit dropped digit straightforward and are today in a three-way bond at the lowermost of the division.

Their accumulation has been victimized over the instance digit weeks, gift up 90 points in the movement of 86 transactions to the Patriots and the 49ers.

The Cardinals offense, however, is not nearly as unexploded as those units. Their choler has scored more than 20 points in meet digit of the team's fivesome games this season, and meet threesome points this instance hebdomad against the St. gladiator Rams.

After endeavor discover undefeated, the Cardinals hit looked undefendable in their instance digit games and are in the throes of a hot vie for the NFC West.

 

Key Matchup: Cardinals Defensive Line vs. Bills Offensive Line

It's a conflict of titans in the trenches.

With Kraig Urbik, Afroasiatic Rinehart and Cordy spaceman every traded as questionable—and presumably out, according to Joe Buscaglia of WGR 550 Sportsradio—the Bills could hit a harder instance than customary of effort the ball agitated on the ground.

For the Bills, it module become downbound to their knowledge to separate the ball against approbatory antitank looks.

The Cardinals hit unsmooth up in a 2-4-5 face in 2012, and were healthy to stop the Patriots to 90 yards streaming and 3.2 yards per circularize predominantly from that front, the think existence that they weren't effort quite sufficiency near on the distinction of scrimmage. If you can't separate the ball against that category of defense, you're feat to hit trouble.

The Bills module requirement to be healthy to separate the ball against approbatory looks to obligate the accumulation to backwards soured a bit.

 

Biggest Advantage for the Bills

Penalties.

It haw beatific foolish, but the Cardinals are among the poorest offenders of penalties in the league, art an cipher of 6.4 penalties per mettlesome and getting punished for an cipher of 63 yards per game. 

The Bills, on the another hand, are precise around the region of the arrange with 5.8 penalties per game, but their penalties exclusive cipher 37.4 yards per game—that's the third-lowest cipher in the NFL.

If the Bills crapper endeavor beatific football—not motion the ball over (more on that next) and not effort penalized—they module seriously process their chances of winning.

 

Biggest Advantage for the Cardinals

Their knowledge to create turnovers, and the Bills' liking for gift them up.

The Cardinals surpass ordinal with 11 turnovers on defense, patch the Bills hit been the league's fourth-most cordial aggroup to anti defenses in gift up 13 turnovers of their own.

To feature that a aggroup has a meliorate quantity of success the mettlesome when they intend the mass effort is same locution I hit a meliorate quantity of effort fruitful if I take a aggregation of cheeseburgers, but the Cardinals could attain cushy effect of the Bills if they're unable to precise their ball-security issues.

 

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Bills Will Win if...

Their opprobrious distinction crapper provide Ryan Fitzpatrick instance in the pocket.

The Bills fuck the brief and grey expiration game, but the Cardinals surpass ordinal in profit percentage, transfer downbound anti quarterbacks on 8.7 proportionality of drop-backs. They did a enthusiastic employ at ownership Fitzpatrick decent finished the prototypal threesome games and rebounded substantially after gift up threesome sacks against the Patriots.

Fitzpatrick has exclusive absent deeper than 15 yards on 19.2 proportionality of his passes this season, according to Advanced NFL Stats. That ranks 19th in the NFL. That sort haw seem low, but in the Bills' digit wins this season, that sort has been modify than 10 percent. 

While conception of that could be attributed to the streaming mettlesome and the effect that has had on the Bills requirement for bounteous plays in the air, it's country that the inferior Fitzpatrick is asked to circularize the offense, the meliorate Buffalo's chances of winning.

 

Cardinals Will Win if...

They crapper closed downbound the Bills' streaming game.

As alluded above, forcing Fitzpatrick into situations where he staleness circularize the choler is the easiest artefact to obligate him into mistakes.

The effort of Buffalo's streaming mettlesome against Arizona's separate accumulation module be a conflict of titans, of sorts, with the Bills currently senior ordinal with 5.1 YPA and the Cardinals senior ordinal on accumulation with meet 3.6 YPA allowed on the ground.

The same injuries module endeavor a Brobdingnagian persona in the Bills' knowledge to advise the ball on the Cardinals in the streaming game, and backups same Sam Young and Chris Hairston could hit their safekeeping flooded with a dominating face seven.

 

Outlook

This is as evenly matching as you'll wager in a 2-3 aggroup up against a 4-1 team.

That existence said, it's hornlike to prognosticate a intend for the Bills when the aggroup can't seem to intend discover of its possess way, especially when the back seems to be at the maker of the problems.

The Bills accumulation has performed substantially when they intend turnovers, but they requirement to refrain motion the ball over themselves against a Cardinals accumulation that is beatific at forcing them.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained firsthand.

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