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The temperature at game time was zero and the wind chill was minus-32. You’ve heard the famous Marv Levy line, “When it’s too tough for them, it’s just right for us.” This was the day he delivered it. Saturday might produce a lower windchill, and it could threaten the three coldest games in Bills history. Undaunted, the Bills scored touchdowns on all seven of their possessions, not including kneel-downs at the end of each half, in a 47-17 blowout. But in terms of brutal cold, the worst was last January in the wild-card victory over the Patriots when the game-time temperature that night was seven degrees with a wind-chill of minus-9. Unbearable heat, hurricane-like wind, and heavy rain, for instance. This current Bills team has dealt with some terrible weather, particularly the last two years.

“If it’s a high wind game, we’ll do the same thing and have a separate game plan if the wind is affecting us so we can go to those things that we feel better about in the wind,” he said. Saturday at Soldier Field, the wind will likely be the element Dorsey has to be most concerned about. We always try and make sure we’ve got those contingency plans.” “Even at the end there when the snow was accumulating, it wasn’t enough to affect the footing.

“We just used our base game plan, obviously, because the footing was good,” he said. Miami Dolphins in Week 15Īs it turned out, the snow didn’t start falling until about 12 minutes remained in the fourth quarter, and by the end of the game, the field was only lightly covered.

As we all know, it’s pretty tough to predict these things. The snow is expected to be gone by the 1 p.m. The forecast is calling for blizzard-like conditions with heavy snow and high winds on Friday in Chicago as a massive storm moves through the midwest. Chicago weather forecast for weekend, Bears vs Bills game “It’ll be kind of similar this week,” Dorsey said Tuesday regarding the task of putting together multiple plans to make sure he can adjust his calls based on whatever weather the Bills and Bears will be playing in. Sign up for the Bills Blast newsletter: Delivered straight to your inbox, additional Bills analysis, insight, stats, quotes and team history from Sal Maiorana Last week, because of the uncertainty of when the forecasted lake effect snowstorm would settle over Highmark Stadium, Buffalo Bills offensive play-caller Ken Dorsey had to plan for all contingencies when putting together the script for Josh Allen against the Dolphins.Īnd now he’s going to have to do the same thing again this week when the Bills travel to Chicago Saturday for a game that will also be played in potentially awful conditions, or not. ORCHARD PARK - Crafting game plans is a laborious enough job for NFL offensive and defensive coordinators, but having to produce two, or even three, really ratchets up the workload. Watch Video: NFL post-Week 15 power rankings: Jaguars, Lions making serious pushes to be in top 10