Predictions

Dave Hyde Sports Columnist Season record: 7-8 Prediction: Bills 20, Dolphins 13

Comment: Buffalo needs it more, considering they still have a playoff heartbeat. Good news in a dismal Dolphins season, too, as they can go as high as ninth in the draft with a loss.

David Selig Senior Digital Editor Season record: 9-6 Prediction: Bills 24, Dolphins 17

Comment: With the way their 2017 went, you can’t imagine the Dolphins are sad to see it end. Their resolutions for the new year will be far more noteworthy than the result of this game.

Omar Kelly Dolphins Writer/Columnist Season record: 9-6 Prediction: Dolphins 21, Bills 17

Comment: Miami’s been up and down most of this season, but the team has performed well in games played inside Hard Rock Stadium. This will give the Dolphins an opportunity to show fans they can do and be better next season, and spoil Buffalo’s playoff hopes. Keven Lerner Online Sports Editor Season record: 9-6 Prediction: Bills 20, Dolphins 16

Comment: The Dolphins are sputtering to the finish, while the Bills have a chance to make the postseason. In Tyrod Taylor, LeSean McCoy and Charles Clay, Buffalo has weapons Miami will continue to be challenged to cover.

Matt Lincoln CBS12 Sports Director Season record: 8-7 Prediction: Bills 23, Dolphins 12

Comment: While the Dolphins have played considerably better at home than on the road this season, it is the Bills with much more to play for in Week 17. Bigger motivating factors have not worked for the Fins all season, so why would “playing the spoiler” work now? Steve Svekis Assistant Sports Editor Season record: 9-6 Prediction: Dolphins 29, Bills 23 Comment: The Dolphins are 4-2 at home and, with a couple plays going differently, could be 6-0. If the Dolphins can bring down Tyrod Taylor when they get to him — and it is a big ‘if ’ — there is a path to avoid the franchise’s seventh double-digit-loss season in the past 48 years.