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Lions announce how much starters will play vs. Bills

August 11, 2021 by Bills Wire Leave a Comment

The Buffalo Bills will begin their preseason against the Detroit Lions. The exhibition season for the Bills will kickoff on Friday at 7 p.m. at Ford Field.

This year the preseason has some new layers. With 17 games unfolding in the regular season, the NFL will only play three exhibition games.

That begs the question, how will teams handle it? How much and when will starters play?

As far as the Lions are concerned, we know that answer.

Lions head coach Dan Campbell said on Monday that his first-team players will take part in one quarter of action against the Bills:

Dan Campbell says Lions starters are looking at playing about a quarter this Friday against Buffalo in the preseason opener.

— Benjamin Raven (@BenjaminSRaven) August 9, 2021

At this time, Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott has yet announce how much the Bills’ first teamers will play. It’s likely McDermott will comment on that at some point this week prior to the game.

In the past, McDermott has played the Bills’ starters roughly the same amount of time in Week 1 of the preseason. However, considering the changes to the length of the exhibition season, perhaps McDermott changes that approach.

Previously McDermott has only acknowledged that the Bills will look into how they will handle the shorter schedule.

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