Monday Night Football|New England at Buffalo-Prediction & Pick
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New England at BuffaloWhen: 8:15 PM ET, Monday, December 6, 2021
Where: Highmark Stadium, Orchard Park, New York
It’s Monday and what a game we have on tap this evening. What’s up for grabs as we close out week 13, only the AFC EAST top spot.
New England (8-4) enters as the hottest team in football with six straight victories.Buffalo (7-4) won four of its first five games before alternating losses and wins in each of its next six games. Last Sunday, the Bills were 31-6 winners at New Orleans behind 260 passing yards and four touchdowns from Allen.
Opening Line:Buffalo (-3.0) America’s Bookie
Over/Under: (46.0 -110)
Current Line: Buffalo (-3.0)
Over/Under (41.5 -110)
New England comes in off a 36-13 home win over Tennessee as a 7.5-point favorite last Sunday.Buffalo handled New Orleans 31-6 on the road as a seven-point favorite in their last game on Thanksgiving night.
History would favor the New England Patriots in the series who own a 75-41-1 record but the Bills did beat New England both times last season.
Buffalo’s defense is tied for second in the NFL with 25 takeaways, 16 of those are interceptions, and the Bills are +9 in turnover margin this season.
Belichick is 25-5 against Buffalo.
The Patriots enter week 13 ranked 14th in the league in passing offense as they average 240 yards per game through the air. New England is 12th in the league in rushing offense with an average of 115.3 yards per contest on the ground. The Bills are seventh in the league in passing offense with an AVG of 271 yards per game and 11th in rushing with an average of 118.3 YPG. Buffalo is second in the league in scoring offense by putting up 29.6 PPC and they are second in the league in scoring defense by allowing 16.5 PPG.
New England faces a Buffalo team that is second in scoring offense and second in scoring defense.
This will be by far the toughest test New England’s offense has faced to date
The Bills looked much better last week against the Saints than they did the entire month of November when we started searching for the team people claimed would be super bowl bound.
Prediction: Buffalo 27-New England 20
Pick: Buffalo (-3.0)
