NFL Week 17 Capsules

January 1, 2010 - 9:33 pm

Indianapolis (14-1) at Buffalo (5-10)
Time: 10 a.m. Line: Bills -8 Total: 35
TV: None
• Weather: Low 20s, 50 percent chance of snow
• Facts: The Colts’ strategy is for Peyton Manning to get his 192nd consecutive regular-season start and then get off the field into some woolly mittens. ... Bills RB Fred Jackson is 150 yards from his first 1,000-yard rushing season. ... Buffalo’s rushing yield of 165.1 yards per game is the NFL’s third worst of the decade. The worst was by the Colts in 2006 at 173.0, the year they won the Super Bowl.

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