Short week, big week.
The Bills visit the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday for a Thanksgiving Day meeting. It’s the first time in about 25 seasons that the Bills have had the national spotlight on them while turkey is being served.
The winner will add to their win total against a winning team for the first time after the one, too. Something neither has done to this point in 2019, despite their winning ways.
With that, here are five storylines to follow during Thursday’s Bills meeting with the Cowboys:
How do Bills play under circumstances?
The Bills have a big test against the Cowboys. They’re a good team, yes. But it’s the festivities outside the game that are much, much different for Buffalo. The Bills haven’t played on Thanksgiving in a long, long time, as mentioned. That’s different for them. In this scenario, the Cowboys play each and every season on the holiday. They don’t answer questions in the locker room about playing during during it this week. Their locker room is used to it.
In addition, just… in general, the Bills don’t often play outside of 1 p.m. In fact, they haven’t done so since last season. The Cowboys on the other hand? This is America’s team, folks. They’ve played on Sunday Night Football three times, Monday Night Football once and had 4 p.m. kickoffs four times. In fact, playing at 1 p.m. is actually weird for them, they’ve only done that three times.
Thanksgiving Day is much bigger for the Bills. Sean McDermott has to get his team ready for it.
The ball goes through Amari Cooper’s hands and its Patriots ball pic.twitter.com/a3AuJxO4xL
— Eric Rosenthal (@ericsports) November 25, 2019