TNF Week 3: Dolphins vs Bills Predictions

[SBR Andy]

Week 3 of Thursday Night Football features an AFC East matchup between Miami and Buffalo.

The lookahead line was BUF -9.5 and as since jumped 3 points.

Can the Dolphins keep it close or is this a Bills blowout? Share your predictions below.

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could be the coach's last game in Miami

[SBR Andy]

SBR's Gary Pearson breaks down the action in his early Dolphins vs Bills prediction:

Over 49.5 (-110)

"We're just two weeks into the regular season, and it already feels like the writing is on the wall for Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel. His Miami Dolphins are woeful. Offensively, defensively, it doesn't matter.

They are the current laughingstock of the league, as evidenced by the early TNF spread, which has the Bills as the 12.5-point betting favorite. While tempted to back the Bills to cover, I'm as scared about a garbage-time Miami cover as McDaniel should be about losing his job.

So, it's on to the Over.

The Dolphins' defense allowed points on the first 10 possessions of the 2025 season, one shy of tying the single-season record set by the San Diego Chargers in 2001.

As if that deflating tidbit isn't enough, the Dolphins must be as low on confidence and motivation as a professional clown who lost the ability to juggle. That's a foreboding thought entering Highmark Stadium against the high-octane Bills, who scored 71 points in their first two games.

That total probably would have been higher had NFL MVP odds favorite Josh Allen and his band of offensive bullies not let their foot off the gas against the New York Jets. While the Dolphins' ability to score points concerns me, I have faith they can muster a few garbage-time scores against a potentially vulnerable and youthful Bills' defense. And who knows, maybe another punt return for six is on the cards."