Task Enterprises presentsNFL Intelligence

2025 · Week 18 · Division

Final

Jets

New York

QB Brady Cook

8·35

Bills

Buffalo

QB Mitchell Trubisky

New Era Field · outdoors · a_turf · 27°F · wind 13mph

Closing spread

BUF -12.5

Total

39.5

Model margin

+13.4est.

BUF perspective

Push chance

None

half-point line — cannot push

Win probability

  • Bills
  • Jets

How each play moved the game.

Bills winsJets wins

Matchup

Where the edges are

Season-long league percentiles for both sides, mirrored. The saturated side of a lopsided row holds the edge.

Jetsedge mapBills
  • -0.129EPA / play+0.145
  • 40.5%Success rate48.8%
  • -0.137EPA / dropback+0.230
  • -0.117EPA / rush+0.039
  • 6.5%Explosive rate11.0%
  • -4.21CPOE+3.77
  • 35.0%Third-down rate46.0%
  • 50.0%Red-zone TD rate70.6%
  • 1.54Points / drive2.73
  • 2.0%Turnover rate1.6%

Bar length is league percentile, already oriented so longer is better. The saturated side of a lopsided row holds the edge; rows within ~12 points are washed as even.

The rivalry

BUF lead 29–25 since 1999

BUF have won 5 straight. Meetings average 42.5 points. BUF are 29-25 ATS in the series.

Previous meetings
SeasonMatchupScoreWinner
2025 · W2BUF @ NYJ3010BUF
2024 · W17NYJ @ BUF1440BUF
2024 · W6BUF @ NYJ2320BUF
2023 · W11NYJ @ BUF632BUF
2023 · W1BUF @ NYJ1622NYJ
2022 · W14NYJ @ BUF1220BUF
2022 · W9BUF @ NYJ1720NYJ
2021 · W18NYJ @ BUF1027BUF

Box score

Individual performances

Jets

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Brady Cook11/226010

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Khalil Herbert12423.50
Kene Nwangwu7182.60
Brady Cook372.30
Arian Smith122.00

Bills

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Mitchell Trubisky22/2925940

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Ray Davis211517.20
Ty Johnson13362.81
James Cook2157.50
Mitchell Trubisky551.00
Reggie Gilliam242.00

Where this game is likely to land

  • Model
  • Smooth (normal)
  • Betting line

Probability of each final margin. Football scoring clusters — the spikes at 3 and 7 are real, and a smooth model misses them.

line +12.55.8%2.1%2.8%4.5%3.4%3.7%3.2%3.1%

Positive margins favour Bills; negative favour Jets.

Half-point at risk

2.12%

outcomes that flip if the line moves 0.5

Model home win

81.4%

Expected total

44.9est.

Model

Where the number comes from

Each component is additive, in points of expected margin.

  • Team ratings (opponent-adjusted EPA)+8.02
  • Home-field advantage+1.71
  • Quarterback adjustment+3.69
  • Rest differential0.00
  • Expected margin+13.41