The Packers elevated OLB Kobe Jones and S Innis Gaines from the practice squad.  That is the third time in eight games that the team elevated two players.  The inactive players were Allen Lazard, Shemar Jean-Charles, and Elgton Jenkins due to injuries and DT Jonathan Ford, Jonathan Garvin and OT Luke Tenuta as healthy scratches.  Jordan Love, Sean Rhyan, and Rasheed Walker were active but did not play.

The Packers ran the ball well in the first half.  Aaron Jones had 11 carries for 71 yards (a 6.5-yard average) with a long of 13 and Dillon had 12 yards on 4 carries with a long of 7.  The passing game was very limited, however, with Aaron Rodgers completing 8 of 11 but for just 62 yards, while taking two sacks. 

Their first possession was a 9 play drive that picked up 34 yards.  On a 2nd and 8, both guards appeared to pull but Rodgers dropped back to pass, resulting in a 7-yard sack that brought up 3rd and 15.  Pro Football Focus assigned the sack to Zach Tom.  Rodgers hit Watson for 12, which brought up 4th down and 3 at the Buffalo 38.  Watson was consussed on the play and left the game.  Tom was walked back into Rodgers on the next play while DE Greg Rousseau turned the corner on Nijman, though Rodgers was able to get an incomplete throw off to Doubs.  PFF wrote in their Recap that Tom did not allow another pressure for the rest of the game while crediting David Bakhtiari with a strong game.  The Bills would use that field possession to help score a quick touchdown.

The Packers tried a trick play on their next possession.  Rodgers pitched to Dillon who then pitched it back to Rodgers, who had some pressure despite the trickery.  Doubs had a half step or so, but the pass was slightly under-thrown and Doubs could not make the contested catch.  Two short passes to Tonyan and Jones fooled no one and forced a punt.  O'Donnell just got the punt away, and though it travelled 43 yards, it was low and returned 19 yards to the Buffalo 49-yard line.  With another short field, Buffalo scored a touchdown on fur plays, which put the Packers down 14-0.  

The Packers then went on a 8:38 minute, 12-play, 80-yard touchdown drive that featured runs of 7, 7, 5, 4, and 3 yards, a pass to Doubs for 7 yards, then runs by Dillon for 2 and 1 (both successful runs as the picked up a first down), 9, 13, and 3, capped off by a 19-yard touchdown pass to Doubs to make it 14-7.  I will give some credit to Rodgers and LaFleur for running 10 times with just 2 passes while down 14-0.  Despite the long rest, the defense then gave up a touchdown to make it 21-7.  Jones picked up 11 on the Packers 4th drive, but an incomplete pass, and a sack by Rousseau against Nijman led to a 3rd and 16.  LaFleur decided to force Buffalo to use their last timeout by running Jones, who picked up 8, but that left almost a minute for Allen to move Buffalo far enough to tack on a field goal to go up 24-7 at the half.

The Packers opening drive in the second half featured 5 runs for 58 yards including runs of 32 by Jones and 27 by Dillon.  However, a 2-yard loss brought up 2nd and 12.  A pass to Deguara for 9 left 3rd and 3, but a touchdown pass to Tonyan was negated by his own Pass Interference penalty, a somewhat dubious call to be sure.  I would not that Greg Rousseau had another sack negated by a penalty on this drive, this time due to an offsides on DT Ed Oliver.  Nijman's official pressures and sacks allowed might look good, but he had plenty of issues.  After an incompletion to Jones, the Packers had to settle for a field goal.

The Packers next drive opened with runs of 4, 4, 7, 5, 9, 3 and 8 yards.  An pass to Jones for no gain and a pass to Tonyan for 3 brought up 3rd and 7, but Jones gained only 6, and was stuffed on the 4th and one play at the Buffalo 26 yard line.  Buffalo threw an interception to Rasul Douglas, giving the Packers the ball at the Green Bay 47, down 27-10.  Rodgers had a pass tipped for an interception, and then Allen threw another interception, this time by Jaire Alexander, at the Green Bay 5-yard line with 10:05 left in the game.

The Packers scored a touchdown mostly by passing.  The drive featured a 15 yard pass to Tonyan, an 11-yard scramble, a drop by Toure, and a 37-yard touchdown pass to Toure to make it 27-17 with 6:32 minutes left.  The defense did hold but Buffalo had the ball for almost 4 minutes.  The Packers final drive moved the ball 46 yards and featured a completion to Amari Rodgers for 22, to Tonyan for 9, Doubs for 10 and Jones for 5.  The Packers attempted a 55-yard field goal but it was short and left.  The snap was low and a little inside, though O'Donnell did a nice job of getting it down.

Zach Tom got the start with Jenkins inactive.  Deguara got a lot of snaps.  Toure got fewer snaps than last week.  Watkins played 79% of the possible snaps after getting 52% last week.  Amari Rodgers played 42%, up from 30% last week.  Watson played just 9 snaps but he did not play at all last week. 

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After forcing a three and out, the blitzkrieg arrived as the Bills would score on their next five possessions.  The bills only faced on third down on their first drive that covered 61 yards.  It featured a 20- yard scramble by Allen and a 30-yard run on a play Campbell overran, allowing the last 25 yards or so.  The only pass was a one-yard touchdown completion.  Buffalo scored a touchdown on their next drive on just 4 plays covering 51 yards, three of which were completions.  They faced no third down plays.  Buffalo had good field position on these two drives.

The Bills then scored on an 8-play, 80-yard drive which features some runs and passes.  They faced no third down plays.  A 17-yard run and a personal foul on Quay Walker for which he was ejected with 3:49 left in the half were the big plays.  On their last possession of the half starting with just 53 seconds left, Buffalo drove 56 yards in 4 plays.  The big play was a 53-yard bomb to Diggs.  Buffalo kicked a field goal as time expired to make it 24-7.     

After the Packers scored a field goal to open the second half to make the score 24-10 Buffalo drove 56 yards to score a field goal.  The big play was a 29-yard completion to Gabe Davis.  That made the score 27-10.

Darnell Savage had a brutal day with his run fits and tackling.  On multiple occasions he came up but failed to make the tackles allowing lots of yards after contact, or missing altogether.  According to PFF Rasul Douglas allowed 93 receiving yards on the first 4 targets that came his way, and he had a holding penalty as well.  Josh Allen only completed 13 pass on 25 attempts for 218 yards, but there were a lot of chunk plays, and his scrambling hurt as he gained 49 yards on 6 carries/scrambles.  Their running backs gained 104 yards on 21 carries, but again there were rushing gains of 30, 20 and 17 yards mixed in.  Many of those chunk plays involved a bad run fit or a missed tackle.  Jaire Alexander did not allow a completion on 5 targets, had 3 pass breakups, and an interception. 

Quay Walker, Amos, Douglas, and Preston Smith led the Packers with 5 tackles each.  Jarran Reed had 3 tackles and 2 quarterback hits.  Enagbare also had 2 tackles for loss and applied some pressure.  McDuffie and Eric Wilson, in relief of Walker (ejected) and Campbell (knee injury) had 4 and 3 tackles, respectively.  Wilson had a sack and a tackle for loss.

The snap counts reveal that Stokes was not benched, as he missed just one snap.  Lowry played fewer snaps than normal, while Wyatt continued to get at least some playing time.  

SPECIAL TEAMS:

The Packers allowed a 33-yard kickoff return and a 17-yard punt return after O'Donnell barely got the punt off.  A bad snap may have contributed to Crosby's missed field goal, though it was a 55-yarder.

WR: 2.33 (a rather low number)

TE:  1.58 (a much higher number than normal)

RB: 1.00

DL: 2.39

ILB: 1.71 (about dead average)

OLB: 2.00

DB: 4.88