Bills vs. 49ers Scores, Stats, Updates, Highlights: Sunday Night Football

ORCHARD PARK – Quite a night is in store at snowy Highmark Stadium as the Buffalo Bills host the San Francisco 49ers in the big TV window of Sunday Night Football.

When this game was added to the 2024 NFL schedule, the league hoped it would be a massive showdown between two Super Bowl contenders. Well, the 49ers didn’t quite live up to their ending as they come into town with a mediocre record of 5-6, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an extremely important game as they look to stay in the NFC playoffs to stay up to date.

Meanwhile, the Bills have more than maintained their performance with a record of 9-2 and if they win, they will clinch their fifth straight AFC East title, something they have never achieved before. Their best run to date was four in a row between 1988 and 1991.

If the Bills pull it off, they will become just the fourth team since the division realignment in 2002 to win a division with five or more games to go. The others on this list are the 2009 Colts, the 2007 Patriots, and the 2004 Eagles, but here’s something interesting: All three of these teams made it to the Super Bowl, but then lost.

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Report: Keon Coleman will not play

NFL insider Jordan Schultz reported that wide receiver Keon Coleman will not play tonight. We won’t get the Bills’ inactive list until 6:50 p.m., but Coleman was always a question mark, which is why he was listed as questionable on the injury report.

So the Bills won’t have Coleman or starting tight end Dalton Kincaid on offense.

The Bills removed linebacker Matt Milano from the injured reserve list on Saturday, but he too is questionable. There’s no guarantee he’ll play tonight.

Photos of snow with Buffalo Lake effect

The journey to the stadium went smoothly

My drive from Rochester to Orchard Park went smoothly. There was no snow until around the Galleria Mall in Cheektowaga, and then when I got on 219 there was a little snow on the road, but not a problem.

And when I left 219 and made my way to Abbott Road and then to the parking lot in front of the stadium, the parking lot wasn’t completely cleared, but it was more than adequate. Really impressive work from everyone involved.

Inside the stadium, the seats are mostly covered in snow, despite the help of shovel shovels. It will be extremely cold and uncomfortable, but the fans who come know that and have probably experienced it before.

As for the field, the cover began to come off around 4:30 a.m. as crews continued to push the snow with blowers, and then the field was hauled away as each section of tarp was removed.

Under this tarp the lawn is obviously icy and with light snowfall it may soon be covered in snow again.

The National Weather Service forecast for Orchard Park calls for below-freezing temperatures in the mid-20s and a 77% chance of precipitation by kickoff at 8:20 p.m., although the percentage will drop as the game progresses. The wind is blowing from the west at a speed of 11 miles per hour. Snow will occasionally fall, falling at around 1 inch per hour during the 8 p.m. hour, although the chance of precipitation is decreasing.

The AccuWeather forecast calls for evening temperatures to hover around 30 degrees, with flurries occurring but little accumulation and the likelihood decreasing later. The forecast calls for gusts of up to 29 miles per hour, which would have a greater impact on the game than the predicted rainfall during the game.

The natural inclination would be to say that the Bills will have home field advantage if the weather is lousy, which could well be the case. I would point out that, no matter what they say on camera, the players don’t like playing in the snow and cold, and that includes the Bills, whose roster has more than half of its players from warm-weather states.

But yeah, living here and sometimes training in the cold, the Bills are a little more used to it than the 49ers. I think it’s a small advantage for Buffalo, but it won’t be the deciding factor. That’s because the Bills are the better team at this point and the 49ers may have a QB playing less than 100%. The 49ers are a proud team with many stars, but I think the Bills’ quest for the AFC East title and the No. 1 seed in the AFC continues.

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When is the Buffalo Bills vs. San Francisco 49ers game?

Date: Sunday, December 1st
Time: 8:20 p.m
Location: Highmark Field

Who is the favorite to win the Bills vs. 49ers game?

Betting line: Bills -7
Over-Under: 45
Money line: Bills minus 300 (bet $300 to win $100) and 49ers plus 240 (bet $100 to win $240).

Who announces the Bills vs. 49ers game?

Play by Play: Mike Tirico
analyst: Cris Collinsworth
Part-time reporter:Melissa Stark

∎ Cable/Network TV: NBC. The game will be available locally on the following stations: WHEC-Channel 10 (Rochester area), WGRZ-Channel 2 (Buffalo area), WSTM-Channel 3 (Syracuse area), WKTV-Channel 2 (Utica area), WETM Channel 18 (Elmira area), WNYT-channel 13 (Albany area) and WBGH-channel 20 (Binghamton area).

∎ Online streaming services: You can watch games on NFL.com and the NFL mobile app, and subscribe to NFL+, the league’s own streaming service. However, you can’t cast the games to your TV, you’ll have to watch them on your phone or tablet.

∎ TV streaming: You can also stream if you have subscriptions to Spectrum, DirecTV, fuboTV, Sling, Vidgo, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, and Peacock.

On the radio: How to listen to the Bills vs. 49ers game

You can listen to SiriusXM satellite radio on channel 225 (Bills feed) and channel 226 (49ers feed), and on traditional radio, the Bills Radio Network has stations across the state. Chris Brown is in charge of play-by-play, Eric Wood is the analyst and Sal Capaccio is the sideline reporter. The network includes:

Rochester (WCMF 96.5 and WROC 950 AM)
Buffalo (WGR550, 550 hours)
Syracuse (WTKW 99.5/WTKV 105.5)
Binghamton (WDRE 100.5FM)
Ithaca (WIII 99.9/100.3 FM)
Bath (WVIN 98.3 FM)
Newark (WACK 1420 p.m.)
Dansville (WDNY 93.9 FM)
Elmira (WNGZ 1490 AM)
Auburn (WAUB 98.1 FM/1590 AM)
Geneva (WGVA 95.9 FM, 1240 AM)

Sal Maiorana has been covering the Buffalo Bills for four decades, including 35 years as a full-time beat writer for the D&C, and he has written numerous books on the team’s history. He can be reached at [email protected] and you can follow him on X @salmaiorana and on Bluesky @salmaiorana.bsky.social. Sign up for his Bills Blast newsletter here: https://profile.democratandchronicle.com/newsletters/bills-blast

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