‘Beasley’s return means the Bills will have their starting trio of receivers playing for the first time since a 32-30 loss at Arizona on Nov. 15. Buffalo’s third starter, John Brown, returned last week after missing five games with a knee injury and stint on the reserve-COVID-19 list.’
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Bills Postgame Spotlight | Buffalo Bills 27, Indianapolis Colts 24
‘Bills have recorded their first post-season victory since 12/30/95 vs. Mia. (37-22, Wild Card) That snaps a six-game playoff losing streak and improve Buffalo’s all-time postseason record to 15-17.’
Top 3 things we learned from Bills vs. Colts | Super Wild Card Weekend
‘Diggs finished the game with 128 yards receiving and a touchdown on six receptions and delivered three of the four longest plays from scrimmage for Buffalo (36, 35, 21). He’s the first Bills receiver to go over 100 yards in a playoff game since Eric Moulds’ record-setting 240-yard day against Miami on Jan. 2, 1999.’
Bills advance to divisional round for first time since 1996
‘Buffalo will host either Baltimore, Pittsburgh, or Tennessee depending on the outcomes of wild-card weekend.’
Bills announce ticket on-sale date for divisional round
‘Playoff ticket on-sales will go in account seniority order for Season Ticket Members that are eligible. All playoff tickets will be sold ONLINE ONLY. No tickets will be sold over the phone or in person. Eligible Members will receive an email with their date and time to purchase today.’
Stefon Diggs, Cole Beasley active for Bills vs. Colts | Super Wild Card Weekend
‘Diggs, Beasley and John Brown will be in the lineup together for the first time since Week 10 at Arizona.’
Bills Today | How rookies Gabriel Davis and Tyler Bass helped secure a Bills playoff win
‘Davis finished the game with four receptions for 85 yards, which is the most by a rookie wide receiver in a playoff game in franchise history. In the last two minutes of the first half, Davis had two toe-tapping catches on the sideline that helped put the Bills up 14-10 before halftime. The rookie who has had a solid first year with the Bills explained what was going through his mind while making those two spectacular catches.’
Buffalo enters postseason as a deserving favorite
‘Buffalo’s defense finished the season looking much closer to the one that ranked among the league’s best last fall than the one that struggled in the first half of the season. The Bills’ running offense never took off completely, but it rarely had to. Still, running backs Devin Singletary and Zack Moss finished with respectable yard-per-attempt averages of 4.4 and 4.3. And crucially, the Bills enter the postseason as one of the NFL’s healthiest teams: wide receiver Cole Beasley, a star in his slot role this season, seems like the only starter in question to play on Saturday against the Colts.’
Take Five: Bills should have more composed Josh Allen in this playoff game
‘Allen’s development as a quarterback goes beyond his dramatic improvement in throwing accuracy. Throughout the season, he has demonstrated a far greater ability to stay focused and within himself. Allen has discussed the lessons he learned from what happened against the Texans. The biggest is doing his part to prevent the Bills from self-destruction.’
Why is Colts legend Dwight Freeney rooting for the Bills? Mario Addison and Jerry Hughes
‘“Those are my guys,” Freeney, a member of the Colts Ring of Honor, said this week in a phone interview with The Buffalo News. “These are the dudes who I brought up in the game a little bit, so I always have this fatherly like, ‘Godfather’ type of thing with them, thinking about their successes.”’
Scouting report: Look for Bills to continue their pass-happy ways against Colts
‘Prediction: Bills 34, Colts 20.’
3 NFL wild-card matchups to watch: Colts at Bills
‘Leslie Frazier vs. Philip Rivers. It’s hard to imagine the Bills completely shutting down the Colts’ run game. The question is: How much pressure can Frazier manufacture on the immobile Rivers when the Bills get the Colts in obvious passing situations. The Colts have one of the top two guards in the NFL in Quenton Nelson and one of the top centers in Ryan Kelly. Pressure up the middle won’t be easy, but it’s the way to impact Rivers. Look for the Bills to show a lot of A-gap pressure (on either side of the center). In the win over the Titans, Tennessee rushed four and sat back in zones all day. That’s not the way to go. Rivers was 29 of 39, and 27 of his completions were within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage. Rivers has been sacked at the third lowest rate in the NFL. Sacking isn’t key. Making him feel heat is.’
Stefon Diggs lone Bills player named first-team All-Pro
‘It’s the first time that Diggs, who received 48 (third-highest) of a possible 50 votes from the media selection panel, has been named All-Pro in his NFL career. He spent the previous five seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, from whom the Bills acquired Diggs in a trade last March.’
Bills Mailbag: So, who won the Stefon Diggs trade?
‘If you asked both teams today if they would do the deal again, they would each say yes. That’s a true win-win.’
Buffalo gears up for playoffs and hopes Saturday’s Bills game is just the start
‘”Have fun, watch the game, do it at home like we’ve done all year. We’ve had good luck with it, the Bills are on one heck of a roll, so why don’t we continue doing that?” Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said at a news briefing earlier this week.’