5 reasons the Dolphins will beat Bills on Sunday
By Josie Rohach
4. The Dolphins have a favorable mismatch in the red zone
The Bills offense could not execute in the red zone in Week 1. They only converted for one three-yard touchdown pass from Josh Allen to Gabriel Davis in the second quarter to put their official conversion total at 25 percent. That puts them ahead of only the Green Bay Packers and the Atlanta Falcons in the league’s red zone conversion rankings which is a bad, bad place to be if you want to find yourself on top of the AFC East.
On the other hand, the Dolphins defense allowed only a 25 percent red zone conversion rate and are currently a top-five team for red zone defense. Though they were not consistently good all over the field, preventing touchdowns is a great place to be successful for Miami. Yards don’t win games. Points do. And the Dolphins aren’t going to let the Bills get many of those.
If this is the intense, back-and-forth battle that it is predicted to be, capitalizing on opportunities in the red zone is going to be essential. For that reason, the Dolphins are going to shake up an already shaken Buffalo Bills offense on their path to victory.