Overview
- A victory Sunday would secure the division and the season-series tiebreaker for New England.
- Buffalo needs a win to stay in the race and would still require help over the final three weeks to take the AFC East.
- Sportsbooks have the Bills favored by about 1.5 points in Foxborough despite the Patriots’ better record and 10-game win streak.
- Stefon Diggs, who had 146 receiving yards in the first meeting against his former team, embraced the underdog tag as added motivation.
- Mike Vrabel dismissed the point spread and Drake Maye framed it as fuel, while analysts split, with Stephen A. Smith leaning Patriots and CBS’s Pete Prisco predicting a Bills win.