The Seattle Seahawks play the Bills of Buffalo on Sunday in Week 8 of the 2024 NFL season. Each team leads its respective division, though the Bills have a bigger lead (and much safer) than Seattle. Buffalo is led by quarterback Josh Allen who is the kind of dual threat that probably will give Seattle fits.
To be fair, though, both Seattle and Buffalo have struggled to stop the run. This could be the kind of game the NFL saw in the 1970s. Both teams running a lot and doing well with that. This is especially true as Seattle might be without wide receiver DK Metcalf, who is week-to-week with a knee injury.
The Bills will be without some key defensive personnel, though. As strange as it might be, the game could be a shoot out, but due to efficient run games instead of passing. Let's hope the volume of the 12s helps pull Seattle through.
Seahawks vs. Bills announcers for Week 8
The game will be held on FOX (channel 13 in Seattle and channel 29 in Buffalo), and the broadcast team will be Kevin Burkhardt (play-by-play), Tom Brady (analysis), and Erin Andrews (sideline reporter). That is at least two-thirds of a great announcing team. The jury might still be out on how good Brady is.
The way that FOX divided who gets to see the game is a bit wonky. The Pacific Northwest will get to watch, of course, along with the Northeast, but there is a chunk of Texas that will view the game, too. One might think that if Brady is calling a game, FOX would want as much of the country as possible to watch.
Seahawks vs. Bills head referee for Week 8
The head referee for the Seahawks Week 8 game will be Ron Torbert. The rest of his crew consists of Barry Anderson, Frank LeBlanc, Brian Bolinger, Ryan Dickson, Keith Washington, Tony Josselyn, Mike Chase, and Jamie Alfieri-Tuss.
Torbert is known as one of the better officials in the league, so the game should be a fair one. He joined the NFL in 2010 as a side judge. He became a full-fledged referee in 2014. He was one of the referees for Super LVI in 2022. Fun fact: Torbert graduated from Harvard Law School, so he is pretty darn smart outside of football as well.