Week 17: Bills at Bengals on MNF

[Beck Water]

My Big Question: to what extent will the severely abnormal conditions still in effect in Buffalo impact game preparation?

 

For a normal game week here's the routine as I understand it:

Game Day - 7 (usually Sunday) is the previous game.  Players get post-game injury evaluation and treatment.  Many players watch game film on the flight home.

Game Day - 6 (usually Monday) is film review of the previous game, corrections, more injury evaluation/treatment, recovery activities such as stretching, ROM, light cardio

Game Day - 5 (usually Tuesday) is day off, but most players come in for treatment and recovery activities such as a light lift or cardio.  Others do acupuncture, massage, IV, hypobaric at home.

Game Day - 4 (usually Wednesday) is Practice 1 and game plan install

Game Day -3 Iusually Thursday) is Practice 2

Game Day -2 (usually Friday) is Practice 3 and final injury report/game designations of injured players

Game Day -1 (usually Saturday) is a walk-through practice and travel

 

So for the Bills, today is Game Day -7, when they would normally only watch film on their own and do injury e v a l/treatment.  But it's also 2 days after the game, prime time to have treatment to control and reduce swelling.  With the prolonged travel home, have the players been able to get evaluation and tests on their injuries, and initial treatment while in Chicago or traveling? 

 

Now that they're home, ditto - Parts of the travel ban have been lifted, but some players do live in the City of Buffalo.  Are they staying with friends on the team who live close to the facility?  If they're home, will they be able to get to the facility?

 

Obviously, it's going to take a while for Erie County to get back to normal. 

 

Will the preparation week be impacted, and how severely?

Edited December 26, 2022 by Beck Water

[Beck Water]

I see there's a thread about betting odds, I'm never sure if those threads are intended to be Game Week threads or just talk about betting.

🤷‍♂️

 

If the former, I assume this will just fall down the board into oblivion or get merged.

 

This am driving bans

 

https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/driving-ban-to-be-lifted-for-parts-of-erie-county-at-7-a-m

 

 

Time to overcome more adversity:

 

 

Edited December 26, 2022 by Beck Water

[YoloinOhio]

 

 

Edited December 26, 2022 by YoloinOhio

[YoloinOhio]

 

[BADOLBILZ]

 

Daytime high of 56 degrees in Cinci on Monday...........low of only 39........but 40% chance of rain.

 

[Greg S]

1 minute ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

Daytime high of 56 degrees in Cinci on Monday...........low of only 39........but 40% chance of rain.

 

 

Considering what the Bills have had to go thru weatherwise that will feel like a summer day.

[boater]

Bills/Bengals has the gravity of a playoff game.

 

ESPN/ABC must be salivating over the ratings they will experience.

[97bills]

I just want a bills win , get that running game going and don’t let there DE just tee off on Allen. We’re going to need all hands on deck for this game. Especially diggs - we got to get him going!!!!!! 

[Bob in STL]

The playoffs start on MNF next week.  

[Scott7975]

This is basically a playoff game.  If the Bills are super bowl contenders then they at the very least will keep this to a one score game if they lose.  We are likely to either face the Chiefs again or Bengals in the playoffs.  Lets go Bills!

[Greg S]

2 minutes ago, Scott7975 said:

This is basically a playoff game.  If the Bills are super bowl contenders then they at the very least will keep this to a one score game if they lose.  We are likely to either face the Chiefs again or Bengals in the playoffs.  Lets go Bills!

 

This is the #1 vs #3 game. Win it and they are most likely the #1 seed. Lose and you are probably looking at the #3 seed.

[olddays1]

9 minutes ago, boater said:

Bills/Bengals has the gravity of a playoff game.

 

ESPN/ABC must be salivating over the ratings they will experience.

Yeah, Jam those commercials down our throats.

[Greg S]

11 minutes ago, boater said:

Bills/Bengals has the gravity of a playoff game.

 

ESPN/ABC must be salivating over the ratings they will experience.

 

Who do you think Troy will be drooling over more Allen or Burrow?

[RoyBatty is alive]

20 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

I see the Bills are a 1 pt favorite,

[TC in St. Louis]

Sometimes I think playing on the road is an advantage.  They travel as a team, stay in the hotel together, bond....and maybe the hostile crowd adds a bit of motivation.  Another motivation is that at the end of the game they jump on the plane, have a couple beers, probably met by hundreds of fans at the airport....and get home to their own warm beds.

 

They aren't distracted with all the ticket requests and all that goes with a home game.

 

But the obvious preference is to play at home.  I'm just saying that they can take advantage of being on the road together.  

[Patrick Duffy]

This will be the best game of them all here. Bengals 7 wins in a row and Bills 6 in a row with winner 1 step closer to locking up the #1 seed. I have been looking forward to this game for a while now.

 

Should be a very exciting game and a dog fight

[Greg S]

3 minutes ago, TC in St. Louis said:

Sometimes I think playing on the road is an advantage.  They travel as a team, stay in the hotel together, bond....and maybe the hostile crowd adds a bit of motivation.  Another motivation is that at the end of the game they jump on the plane, have a couple beers, probably met by hundreds of fans at the airport....and get home to their own warm beds.

 

They aren't distracted with all the ticket requests and all that goes with a home game.

 

But the obvious preference is to play at home.  I'm just saying that they can take advantage of being on the road together.  

 

Disagree. The Bills are winless on the road in the playoffs with McDermott, but they are undefeated at home. 

[Dan]

5 minutes ago, Greg S said:

 

Disagree. The Bills are winless on the road in the playoffs with McDermott, but they are undefeated at home. 

Seemed odd... but you’re right the Bills haven’t won a road playoff game since 1992.  

All the more reason we need to stay focused and get the #1 seed!

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

If weather cooperates, this will be an absolute shoot out. Expect both QBs to be totally dialed in. 

[njbuff]

I’d be shocked if Allen doesn’t play well.