If the question is about the Buffalo Bills NFL team, the key impact of a loss “today” would be on their playoff seeding and odds, not immediate elimination, given they already won their Week 15 game over New England and sit at 10–4.
Context about today
The Bills just beat the Patriots 35–31 in Week 15, so that game is already in the books as a win, not a potential loss. That win kept them mathematically alive in the AFC East race and strengthened their overall playoff position.
What a hypothetical loss would do
Before Week 15, simulations showed that a Bills loss in this stretch mainly lowered their chances to win the division and slightly reduced but did not destroy their playoff odds, with scenarios where they still made the postseason as a wild card. In general, a loss now would likely push them closer to competing for a wild‑card spot rather than the division title, but would not automatically knock them out unless combined with unfavorable results in several other AFC games.
