Built in Buffalo Roundtable: wild-card score predictions

The Bills will take on the Miami Dolphins for the third time this season in the wild-card round, as they will try and break the 1-1 tie between the two teams this season. The Dolphins come into the game at Buffalo with injuries at key positions. Enjoy our game predictions below and let us know yours!

Daniel Adams: Bills 41, Dolphins 17.
The Dolphins being without QB Tua Tagovailoa and RB Raheem Mostert should give the Bills defense a boost at both stopping the pass and run. I think the Bills defense has a great day, intercepting rookie Skylar Thompson a couple times and posting at least four sacks. Offensively, I think Singletary gets in a groove early and the Bills will work some play action off of that.Josh Allen will continuously lead the Bills down the field and Ken Dorsey will call a good game from the booth.

Matt Homan: Bills 38, Dolphins 10.
The Dolphins will face a seemingly impossible task as they’ll travel to Buffalo for their wild-card matchup. Not only will their QB, Tua Tagovailoa, be inactive, but they’ll probably be missing three starting offensive linemen and their leading rusher in Raheem Mostert. The main obstacle Buffalo faces Sunday will be the Dolphins run defense. A unit that has held their opponents to under 100 yards in five of the past seven games and ranks fourth in the NFL. The Dolphins solid run defense shouldn’t deter the Bills from attempting to run the football as they’ve racked up 115 and 150 yards respectively in their earlier matchups this year.

Kam Towle: Bills 38, Dolphins 20.
It’s no secret that injuries are plaguing the Dolphins at this point in the season, and they’ll need a miracle to walk out of Highmark Stadium with a win in the wild-card round. Seventh-round rookie QB Skylar Thompson will have his hands full going into Buffalo for a playoff game. Sean McDermott is 9-3 in his last 12 games against rookie starting QBs. And, before Brock Purdy picked up a win yesterday for the Niners, the league hadn’t seen a rookie QB start, finish, and win a playoff game since 2012 when Russell Wilson did it. The Dolphins might make a few splash plays with Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle, but in the end the Bills defense (and the Buffalo crowd) will be too much for Thompson to overcome at quarterback.