ORCHARD PARK - NFL players and coaches do not like playing games on Thursday night.

Sure, it’s cool to be in a standalone broadcast window as the only game being played, and the aftermath is nice because you get what amounts to a mini bye week before your next game. But the actual playing of Thursday night games is a grind both physically and mentally when you just played a game four days earlier.

However, when the Buffalo Bills host the Miami Dolphins Thursday night at Highmark Stadium, they will be in about as advantageous a position as you can be for a short week. First, they’re at home, and second, because they blew out the New York Jets on Sunday, coach Sean McDermott was able to rest his front-line players for most of the fourth quarter.

“Yeah, we were aware of it,” McDermott sa

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