BY ADAM GREENE<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Look at us, playing NFL football on a Tuesday like crazy people. You can thank the Tennessee Titans, who spent the last two weeks of the season serving as the league\u2019s disease vector, for giving us this oddball game and schedule as they host the Buffalo Bills in what would have been the premier game Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BUFFALO BILLS AT TENNESSEE TITANS (+3.5, O\/U: 53.5)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Location:<\/strong> Nissan Stadium, Nashville, Tenn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kickoff:<\/strong> Oct. 13, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n Broadcast:<\/strong> CBS<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Titans lead the all-time series 28-19 going all the back to 1960 when they were known as the Houston Oilers and the two teams helped originate the old AFL. The Bills have won the last three match ups dating back to 2015, but no one is going to be talking about any of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nope, what you will see replayed and discussed all night is their Jan. 8, 2000 Wild Card match up won by the Titans and their \u201cMusic City Miracle<\/a>\u201d desperation kickoff return in the game\u2019s final seconds. Tennessee won 22-16 there, then beat the Peyton Manning-led Indianapolis Colts the next week and then crushed the Jacksonville Jaguars in the AFC Championship, only to lose the Super Bowl to the St. Louis Rams\u2019 Greatest Show on Turf, 23-16, in what many people still say is the best Super Bowl ever played. The Rams\u2019 Mike Jones tackled Titans\u2019 wide receiver Kevin Dyson on the one yard-line at the end of the game, preventing a tie game and trip to overtime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Wild Card loss would decimate the Bills as a franchise. They recorded just two winning seasons over the next 16 years and didn\u2019t return to the playoffs until 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BUFFALO<\/strong> BILLS (4-0)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Bills are 4-0 and it is for real. While you can handwave their first two wins of the season over the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins, they\u2019ve stacked up two good ones since, a 35-32 shootout win over the 4-1 Los Angeles Rams and a 30-23 victory over the 3-2 Las Vegas Raiders who just knocked off the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Josh Allen is on his way to NFL super stardom. He\u2019s completed 70.9 percent of his passes this year for 1,326 yards and 12 touchdowns with just one interception. That puts him on pace for 5,304 yards and 48 passing touchdowns. And that\u2019s not even counting his rushing scores. He has three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n TENNESSEE<\/strong> TITAMS (3-0)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Luckily for the Titans, the NFL has yet to toss this game off the schedule because they might have been looking at a forfeit. For the second week in a row they head trouble with positive COVID-19 cases and this time you can\u2019t just blame it on being based in a state with the nation\u2019s worst plague rats. Nope, some of the players held an \u201cinformal\u201d workout after last week\u2019s 20 or so positives<\/a> and, in this case, the word \u201cinformal\u201d can be translated as \u201cstupid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n As of this writing, and it\u2019s the day before the game, the contest is still on. But, man, did the Titans nearly derail their own season due to\u2026 \u201cinformality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE PICK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In a just world where karma is a guarantee, Tennessee would lose this game, but the NFL does not run on karma. Otherwise Tom Brady wouldn\u2019t have a fist full of rings. So, considering the Titans have found a way to squeak by not only their first three games, but two weeks of COVID-19 tomfoolery, I believe they\u2019ll do it again. Buffalo is due to drop a game anyway. Titans 23, Bills 20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow our BetOnline Twitter accoun<\/a>t for the latest sports news and betting odds, and stay tuned on the Instagram feed<\/a> for more good information too.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY ADAM GREENE Look at us, playing NFL football on a Tuesday like crazy people. 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