Detroit, their home away from home nine and a half Point
favorites against the surging kneecap biting,
Detroit Lions, who have won three in a row
won. Their first road game since 2020
first three-game winning streak since 2017 for crying out loud.
Do they make it a four-game winning streak? Do they have
a chance? Can they beat the bills? Can they cover
the spread Chris
while you're sitting there, munching on
whatever hors d'oeuvres, you eat on Thanksgiving? The
chips, and dip, and celery, and this, and that as your
pre-gaming down the hatchet, the various foodstuffs short of
the Thanksgiving meal,
what do you think will play out? That's right. I mean,
the first game, I mean, I love the first game I go in from
the Thanksgiving Day Parade to
little pregame show,
watch the big talk about what a dog and the dog show, it'll be
on the dog. Said to Sadat the daughter, I'll have that on
the second screen.
So that we'll have that on as well.
Gotta watch the big,
do the CBS pregame show,
they do the Bills lions
and yeah, I mean, that's an important part of the Devar me,
right there. I mean, first off, I mean hors d'oeuvres. Don't
come quite yet, it's 12:00 tomorrow.
Okay, I'm going to probably make my drink, right then let
it marinate for a little while, then I got to go out and have
a little smoke. Okay get a little smoke going then come in.
Have a little sip of the drink
and Now I get to sit down and watch the game. I mean, and
then yeah, little chips and dip little celery and dip little
carrots and Deb. That's going to be the day until
we have a late Thanksgiving dinner. So
I can't wait for that. All right, there's my
side. So I think I think I've figured it out now. Yeah,
the best way to get yourself through a full day of gluttony
is to enter the process with the munchy. Exactly strategy.
Exactly
II think you will, you could appreciate that. Maybe one day
we can spend a Thanksgiving day together and we could do it
together. Fun. It might be a good time for us but that I am
excited for this game.
Listen, I'm expecting kind of fireworks with this football game,
you know, I see here that the
it's
the 54.5 over under. I'm not shocked to see that. I think
these are two offenses that are going to move the ball, you
know, at a pretty good clip throughout the day
and I look at it again, we know the Lions defense has been
better as of late but I'm not sitting here ready to write
home that. I think they're going to stop this group and
and Josh Allen and what they do,
you do. You have a great pass rush, right? We know they're
not great in past defense, they're not really good in any
aspect of their defense. So this is the kind of game where
the bills probably will have the Run game available to them
a little
bit. Like they did last week and that's when it can open
the floodgates of Josh Allen making passes and throws everywhere.
So I expect them to make plays the
the other aspect of this though, is I do think the lions
are going to score a lot of points as well.
You know, I think the Lions one-run game we know is real,
you know?
To
we saw last week, the bills that are pretty good job
against the Browns, run game, but the Browns pass game was
pretty effective. And we both agree that the Browns,
controlled the early part of the football game before
messing some things up. This Lions, pass off
men's I think ties. Together play action, pass, and maybe
can cause a few more problems and the Browns caused for
the bills on that side of the ball.
So I know I'm gonna pick the bills here 3424, but I don't
like look at it as like. Oh, Oh wow, this is a dominant 3424.
I think it's going to be kind
of going back and forth back and forth,
It's 2724 five minutes left in the game Buffalo scores to go
up by 10, one of those types of covering by the spread, not
a blowout. So what do you say Mike? How do you kind of see
this unfolding?
So just so we're clear in my math isn't always all that
great. You've got the bills winning and cover. I buy a half
point right, endpoint Victory.
I I just look and you've got it. Also going over the fifty,
four and a half. It is the highest over under the week by
far.
The next highest over under is 47 and a half in one of the
other games coming up on Sunday or Monday. So,
I think that this one will be closer than expected. I think
the Lions will dig deep. I think they're feeling that
surge of adrenaline that Did, they went into New York
and beat the Giants?
I think they're capable of keeping it close. I think they
will keep it within the spread. I think they'll slow things
down a little bit. They have transformed the offense early
in the year. It was throw it around all over the place.
Almond Ross, ain't Brown was having big numbers Jared Goff
was having a year as good or better than what we saw him do
with the Rams. Yeah, they could settle down.
It's more deliberate,
Jamaal, Williams, become a touchdown machine, even though
he's not the Workhorse, tailback for the Detroit Lions,
I I think they deliberately try to keep Josh out on
the sidelines, not on a turkey leg. Instead of out there slicing
and dicing
up the Detroit defense.
I've got twenty seven, twenty Bills win
Lions cover
and part of this is my bias that is hoping for great games
across the board tomorrow on them all to be close. I want to
be exciting. That's an area where the NFL's League office
and I are fully aligned more close games, more exciting
games.
So we're watching
and engaged all the way to the end, not like Monday night.
When it's 38 10 in the fourth quarter between the 49ers and
Cardinals, I think and hope this will be a close game on
one score game but the Bills win
lines cover. That's my take. Yeah I was I don't disagree
with it there. This is this will not be.
I think one that I picked as a best bet because I could see it
being the way you're describing it. I could see it being
the way I described it as well, where he had the bills are
better and it's a close game and
you know, hey game might be like yours and then you get
a late field goal. Don't win by ten eyes. Still think we're
going to get entertainment. Either way.
I think a really the big,
the big, you know thing, I'll look for in this particular
matchup is just how hard did the bills have to sell out to
stop the run and within selling out to stop the run,
you know, do they start to get gashed by some of
the play-action passes and things aligns do? That's where they're
a little different than the Browns. The Browns run the ball
and where they're annoying to me is when they want
to throw the ball, they don't tie it together with play
action pass. They get in the shot. Got an empty personality
just like, Hey, we're definitely throwing it.
Everybody definitely
we're not even going to worry about the fact that we could
play the play action pass and that's one of the best parts of
our game is running the ball and makes no sense. Detroit
will not let Buffalo off the hook quite as easily there
to wear. Yeah, there's a little bit better blend and I'm
excited for this game. I think it's going to be about as good
as it gets as far as,
you know, big plays and
you know, the theater of the game as far as the bills being
one of the best teams, the AFC in the Lions, being a Team for
the first time in a while that
they win this game. We go. Holy crap.
It's not crazy to think they can make the playoffs or at
least be in the conversation. And when we're talking about
it, a few weeks,
I'll wind gets him to five and six and they have the Jaguars
coming to town. Then they have the Vikings coming to town.
They have three straight home games. They can make some noise
here and force themselves either into the race for
the division title or
one of the wild-card births in the NFC.