How to Watch Bills vs. Bucs Week 8 NFL Game: TV, Betting Info

NFL Week 8 action kicks off with a Thursday Night Football game featuring one of the more confounding questions of a season heading toward the halfway mark.

"Who are the Buffalo Bills?"

The Bills were among the teams with the best odds of winning the Super Bowl prior to the season. But since games got underway, the team has been on a roller-coaster ride. It started with the season-opener when the Bills lost to the New York Jets in a game where quarterback Aaron Rodgers left early with an Achilles injury.

The Bills bounced back from that defeat with dominating wins against the Las Vegas Raiders, Washington Commanders and Miami Dolphins.

But then the tide seemed to change. Buffalo lost a close game in London, England, against the Jacksonville Jaguars, but then only scratched out a five-point victory at home against a New York Giants team that had just one win. Last week's loss against the New England Patriots, who entered the game at 1-5 and on a three-game losing streak, was inexplicable.

An issue for the Bills over the last three games is the team's lack of scoring in the first half. The Bills scored just 10 first-half points combined against the Jags, Giants and Pats.

Tight end Kevin Knox told reporters after the loss to New England that the team can't focus on past defeats or the standings.

"All we're doing is focusing on getting the corrections from this game and then focusing on our next game on Thursday night," Knox told reporters. "So it's not trying to project where we're going to land, seeding for the playoffs or the division, no one's doing that. We're just going to focus on today, tomorrow and then this next game coming up."

While expectations were elevated for the Bills, the Tampa Bay Bucs have outperformed their preseason projection as a team with one of the worst odds of winning the Super Bowl this season.

But even on a two-game skid, Tampa Bay enters the game at 3-3 and are just half a game back in the NFC South. There's a chance the Bucs can make the playoffs led by quarterback Baker Mayfield, who had the unenviable task of replacing legendary quarterback Tom Brady.

Despite the recent first-half scoring issues, the Bills have the league's second-best point differential at +80. Tampa, meanwhile, is at -1.

How to Watch Bills vs. Bucs

The Tampa Bay Bucs travel to Highmark Stadium for Thursday Night Football against the Buffalo Bills. The game will be on Prime Video for an 8:15 p.m. ET Thursday kickoff with Al Michaels (play-by-play), Kirk Herbstreit (analyst) and Kaylee Hartung (reporter) calling the action.

Betting Info

The Bills are an 8.5-point favorite against the Bucs, according to Tuesday's odds on BetMGM. The over/under is 42.