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Bills have won 5 straight at home against Jets in closing the regular season by hosting New York

2026-01-03 02:53 Last Updated At:03:01

New York Jets (3-13) at Buffalo (11-5)

Sunday, 4:25 p.m. EST, CBS.

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New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn looks on during the second half of an NFL football game against the New England Patriots, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn looks on during the second half of an NFL football game against the New England Patriots, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott watches during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)

Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott watches during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)

FILE - The existing Highmark Stadium, foreground, frames the construction on the new Highmark Stadium, upper right, which is scheduled to open with the 2026 season, shown before an NFL football game between the Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots, Oct. 5, 2025, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

FILE - The existing Highmark Stadium, foreground, frames the construction on the new Highmark Stadium, upper right, which is scheduled to open with the 2026 season, shown before an NFL football game between the Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots, Oct. 5, 2025, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

New York Jets quarterback Brady Cook passes against the New England Patriots during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

New York Jets quarterback Brady Cook passes against the New England Patriots during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

BetMGM NFL odds: Bills by 7.

Against the spread: Jets 7-8-1; Bills 7-9.

Series record: Bills lead 72-58.

Last meeting: Bills won 30-10 on Sept. 14, at the Meadowlands.

Last week: Jets lost to Patriots 42-10; Bills lost to Eagles 13-12.

Jets offense: overall (28), rush (7), pass (32), scoring (28)

Jets defense: overall (23), rush (27), pass (16), scoring (30)

Bills offense: overall (5), rush (2), pass (18), scoring (6).

Bills defense: overall (8), rush (29), pass (1), scoring (12).

Turnover differential: Jets minus-19; Bills plus-1.

QB Brady Cook. The undrafted rookie will make his fourth consecutive start to end the season for the Jets. Cook, who got the opportunity to play because of injuries to Tyrod Taylor and Justin Fields, is looking to finish on a positive note and potentially establish himself as a backup option for the future. Through four games, including three starts, Cook has thrown for 679 yards with one touchdown and seven interceptions while averaging just 5.2 yards per passing attempt.

QB Mitch Trubisky. Josh Allen, who is nursing a sore right foot, was deemed “good to go,” by coach Sean McDermott, but the starter isn't expected to play much. He's likely to take the first snap to extend his starting streak to 122 games, the NFL's longest active among quarterbacks. That puts backup Trubisky in position to oversee the offense in an outing the Bills have little more than playoff seeding on the line. The ninth-year player is 3 of 6 for 54 yards in three appearances this season. The Bills don't have another QB on their roster or practice squad.

RB James Cook vs. Jets run defense. With an opportunity to win the NFL's rushing title, Cook is likely to get a few chances to increase his league-leading 1,606 yards rushing. Cook enters the weekend 47 yards ahead of Indianapolis’ Jonathan Taylor, and 137 ahead on Baltimore's Derrick Henry. In the teams' September meeting, Cook had 132 yards rushing and scored twice.

Jets: RB Breece Hall (knee) was limited Thursday and Friday after sitting out practice Wednesday. ... RB Isaiah Davis (concussion), TE Mason Taylor (neck), OL Xavier Newman (knee), CB Qwan’tez Stiggers (knee) and DL Micheal Clemons (ankle) and TE Jelani Woods (hamstring) are out.

Bills: McDermott has already ruled out LB Terrel Bernard (calf), DT DaQuan Jones (calf) and S Jordan Poyer (hamstring). ... Other players on the injury report bear monitoring with the Bills expected to be cautious before the playoffs. They include DE Joey Bosa (hamstring) and TE Dalton Kincaid (knee).

The Bills have won nine of 11 and four straight in which they've outscored the Jets by a combined 127-50. ... Buffalo has won five straight at home since a 13-6 loss on Dec. 29, 2019, in a regular-season finale the playoff-bound Bills rested many of their starters. The home-winning streak is the Bills' longest since winning six straight spanning 1963-68, during the franchises' AFL era. ... The Bills have dominated the series by going 17-7 in their past 24 meetings. ... Buffalo has not allowed the Jets to score a TD on their opening drive in 24 straight outings — the NFL’s longest active streak.

The Jets are trying to end the season by stopping a four-game losing streak. It's the second consecutive season during which New York has had two skids of at least four games. ... New York set an NFL record for point differential for the month of December with minus-107 after being outscored 153-46 in four games. ... The Jets became the fifth team in NFL history to lose four straight by 23 or more points in one season, joining the 1972 Patriots, 1954 Redskins, 1934 Cincinnati Reds and 1923 Oorang Indians. ... New York will try to prevent becoming the first team in NFL history to go an entire season without an interception. The Jets already have the record for most consecutive games without an INT with 16. ... Hall has 1,065 yards rushing for the first 1,000-yard season of his four-year career. He's the eighth Jets player to get 1,000 yards rushing and the first since Chris Ivory in 2015. ... WR Garrett Wilson leads the Jets with 395 yards receiving, despite having not played since Nov. 9 because of a knee injury that landed him on season-ending injured reserve. Wilson's last reception came on Oct. 12. ... S Malachi Moore has 85 total tackles, the fourth most by a Jets rookie defensive back since 2000. He needs four more to surpass Erik Coleman (2004) and Darrelle Revis (2007) for second most. ... K Nick Folk has made 99 consecutive field goals under 40 yards, the longest streak by any NFL kicker in the past 40 years. ... The Bills play their final regular-season game at Highmark Stadium, which they opened with a 9-7 win over the New York Jets in 1973. The team is relocating across the street to its new $2.1 billion home, which will also be called Highmark, with construction scheduled to be completed by June. ... Since 1973, Buffalo is 246-162 at home, though that includes nine games played outside of Orchard Park, New York. ... Buffalo has qualified for the playoffs for a franchise-record seventh straight year and enters the weekend as the AFC's seventh and final seed. The Bills can finish no better than fifth, and will open the playoffs on the road for the first time since 2019, when they lost 22-19 in overtime at Houston. ... Buffalo's 2,503 yards rushing this season ranks fifth on the team list, and most since finishing with 2,630 in 2016. The remaining three top finishes happened during 14-game seasons in the 1970s. ... With 5,927 yards offense, the Bills are 73 from reaching the 6,000 mark for a sixth consecutive season. ... Cook has an opportunity to become Buffalo's first player to be the NFL's rushing leader since O.J. Simpson did so four times, the last in 1976. ... With two TDs rushing last weekend, the 29-year-old Allen became the NFL's first player to score 300 (passing, rushing and receiving) before turning 30. ... In their previous meeting, Buffalo limited the Jets to 154 yards while New York went 0 of 11 on third down opportunities. The Jets also went 0 of 11 on third down in a 32-6 loss to Buffalo on Nov. 19, 2023.

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New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn looks on during the second half of an NFL football game against the New England Patriots, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn looks on during the second half of an NFL football game against the New England Patriots, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott watches during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)

Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott watches during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)

FILE - The existing Highmark Stadium, foreground, frames the construction on the new Highmark Stadium, upper right, which is scheduled to open with the 2026 season, shown before an NFL football game between the Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots, Oct. 5, 2025, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

FILE - The existing Highmark Stadium, foreground, frames the construction on the new Highmark Stadium, upper right, which is scheduled to open with the 2026 season, shown before an NFL football game between the Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots, Oct. 5, 2025, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

New York Jets quarterback Brady Cook passes against the New England Patriots during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

New York Jets quarterback Brady Cook passes against the New England Patriots during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics, expiring U.S. tax breaks for buyers and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row.

Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, down 9% from a year earlier.

Chinese rival BYD, which sold 2.26 million vehicles last year, is now the biggest EV maker.

It's a stunning reversal for a car company whose rise once seemed unstoppable as it overtook traditional automakers with far more resources and helped make Musk the world's richest man.

For the fourth quarter, sales totaled 418,227, falling short of even the much reduced 440,000 target that analysts recently polled by FactSet had expected. Sales were hit hard by the expiration of a $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicle purchases that was phased out by the Trump administration at the end of September.

Tesla stock was down nearly 3% at $436.85 in afternoon trading Friday.

Even with multiple issues buffeting the company, investors are betting that Tesla CEO Musk can deliver on his ambitions to make Tesla a leader in robotaxi services and get consumers to embrace humanoid robots that can perform basic tasks in homes and offices. Reflecting that optimism, the stock finished 2025 with a gain of approximately 11%.

The latest quarter was the first with sales of stripped-down versions of the Model Y and Model 3 that Musk unveiled in early October as part of an effort to revive sales. The new Model Y costs just under $40,000 while customers can buy the cheaper Model 3 for under $37,000. Those versions are expected to help Tesla compete with Chinese models in Europe and Asia.

For fourth-quarter earnings coming out in late January, analysts are expecting the company to post a 3% drop in sales and a nearly 40% drop in earnings per share, according to FactSet. Analysts expect the downward trend in sales and profits to eventually reverse itself as 2026 rolls along.

Investors have largely shrugged off the falling numbers, choosing to focus on Musk's pivot to different parts of business. He has been saying the future of the company lies with its driverless robotaxis service, its energy storage business and building robots for the home and factory — and much less with car sales.

Tesla started rolling out its robotaxi service in Austin earlier this year, first with safety monitors in the cars to take over in case of trouble, then testing without them. The company hopes to roll out the service in several cities this year.

To do that successfully, it needs to take on rival Waymo, which has been operating autonomous taxis for years and has far more customers. It also will also have to contend with regulatory challenges. The company is under several federal safety investigations and other probes. In California, Tesla is at risk of temporarily losing its license to sell cars in the state after a judge there ruled it had misled customers about their safety.

“Regulatory is going to be a big issue,” said Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives, a well-known bull on the stock. “We're dealing with people's lives.”

Still, Ives said he expects Tesla's autonomous offerings will soon overcome any setbacks.

Musk has said he hopes software updates to his cars will enable hundreds of thousands of Tesla vehicles to operate autonomously with zero human intervention by the end of this year. The company is also planning to begin production of its AI-powered Cybercab with no steering wheel or pedals in 2026.

To keep Musk focused on the company, Tesla’s directors awarded Musk a potentially enormous new pay package that shareholders backed at the annual meeting in November.

Musk scored another huge windfall two weeks ago when the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a decision that deprived him of a $55 billion pay package that Tesla doled out in 2018.

This story has been corrected to show that BYD sold 2.26 million vehicles last year, not 2.26.

AP video journalist Mustakim Hasnath contributed to this report from London.

FILE - The Tesla logo is displayed at a Tesla dealership Thursday, Mar. 13, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

FILE - The Tesla logo is displayed at a Tesla dealership Thursday, Mar. 13, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

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