Buffalo Bills Close Win Raises AFC Championship Hopes

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00:00The Dolphins did show up yesterday in Buffalo and very close to taking this thing to overtime,

00:08if not for a 61-yard field goal by Tyler Bass.

00:12But at this point, you know, Adam, the Chiefs are the favorite to win the AFC, but don't

00:18look now here.

00:19The Bills right now, 4-1 to win the AFC.

00:22Win total 12.5, just 8-1 to win the Super Bowl.

00:26I know this was not their most impressive win of the season.

00:29Obviously that was last week against Seattle, but they're as good an offense as any team

00:34in the NFL.

00:35And I would also say, Adam, yesterday Josh Allen had a, what, 25-yard touchdown run called

00:39back for no reason, too.

00:40He's been great.

00:42He's been awesome, and I'm happy to have an MVP ticket on Josh Allen from before the season

00:47at plus 850, because obviously the odds right now are considerably worse.

00:51He's been very good.

00:52He's exceeded my expectations.

00:54This Bills team has as well.

00:56In recent years, we've seen them very up and down.

00:59You know, one of the things we talked about on In Game Live Pro Football Game Day last

01:02night, I had brought it up sort of in the same vein that you're talking about it now.

01:07What should we make of these Bills?

01:09Because everyone, I know the Chiefs play tonight, they're going for yet another win.

01:14Only remaining unbeaten team, looking for their 14th straight W, all of that, two-time

01:19defending champs.

01:20A lot of people just want to assume they're going to win three in a row like it's easy

01:24or something.

01:25So, all right, well, let's entertain the AFC.

01:28Let's at least consider who else could be a viable threat.

01:32There aren't many.

01:33You know, it's Buffalo, it's Baltimore.

01:36That might be it as we sit here basically halfway through the year, because I'm not

01:40quite ready to go to, you know, the Houstons of the world.

01:44And what really impressed me yesterday about Buffalo, and you know, I did kind of assume

01:50the Bills were going to win the game.

01:52I did have the Dolphins plus three and a half, so threaded a needle there, obviously,

01:56with that three-point win, as you noted.

01:58But the thing about this game with Josh Allen and the offense in particular, putting up

02:0330-plus points, was that he was doing it without Amare Cooper.

02:07You know, they were absent a true number one receiver to start off their year.

02:13And so they were one of these teams in the AFC arms race to go out and get a wideout.

02:18And you know, Cooper was very good last week, and I wondered, all right, well, two is back

02:23there, Tyreek is better with two, obviously, Waddle is up and down, but you know what he's

02:28capable of, that run game, all of it, the Dolphins, as bad as they have been historically

02:34over the last several years against the Bills, this is a spot where, you know, you could

02:38go into Buffalo and surprise them, maybe catch them off guard just a little bit.

02:43It almost happened.

02:44But the fact that the Bills and Allen were able to get over the hump, do so without Cooper,

02:50and have the Shaqirs of the world, among others, take advantage of an opportunity, sort of

02:56as they had to do, obviously, early in the season, but what was slotting them into a

03:00more advantageous role now, with Cooper available, taking some of the attention off of them,

03:06I just thought was really good.

03:07And so, look, if I'm investing in a Super Bowl champion right now, I realize the Chiefs

03:12are the easy choice, you know, quote-unquote, but if I'm looking for some value, you're

03:19talking about Buffalo to win the AFC, I get it.

03:22If you're going to invest in that, you may as well just invest in them to win the whole

03:25thing and get that at 8-1.

03:27I think that is a really interesting bet with, again, still some value inside 10-1.

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