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The last time the Detroit Lions hosted the Buffalo Bills at Ford Field, Josh Allen led a four-play, 48-yard drive that set up a Tyler Bass game-winning 45-yard field goal, sealing a 28-25 Thanksgiving victory for the Bills in 2022. That loss snapped a three-game winning streak for a Lions team that had clawed its way back from a 1-6 start to the season. It also contributed to Detroit narrowly missing the playoffs, as the team finished with a 9-8 record. When the two teams meet again on Sunday for the first time since that game, NFL analysts are predicting a different outcome. Earlier this week, three major sportsbooks listed the Lions as slight favorites. Experts point to Detroit’s dynamic offense and a Bills defense that has struggled recently as key reasons for the Lions’ edge heading into the Week 15 clash in Motown. The Lions are also returning to a more typical schedule following a grueling stretch of games and are expected to have several key players back in the lineup. Additionally, Buffalo has faced challenges on the road this season, posting a 4-3 away record. Meanwhile, Ford Field has quickly developed a reputation as one of the NFL’s most formidable venues for visiting teams. Here’s what experts are saying ahead of Sunday’s pivotal matchup: MLive Benjamin Raven’s pick: “Lions 31, Bills 23 — I learned my lesson doubting these Lions last week. And I’m not about to do it after a couple of extra days of rest. They should be healthier and ready to roll in this matchup of the NFL’s top two scoring teams.” The Athletic Pick: Bills “This game won’t be as high-scoring as the Bills’ loss to the Rams last week, and one of the reasons is the game won’t be as fast — the Bills aren’t very good at stopping the run and the Lions combo of Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery is the second-best in the league. The Bills had no answer for Rams receivers Puka Nacua or Cooper Kupp either, but we are going to attribute part of that to looking past the Rams to this game. The Lions are going to need to put up at least 30 points because Josh Allen is playing at an MVP level and the Lions defense is still banged up (new guys Za’Darius Smith and Al-Quadin Muhammad are getting pressure, though.) We’re going with the hot QB, especially in the red zone — Allen has thrown for 16 touchdowns and run for eight as the Bills score from inside the 20-yard line 68.6 percent of the time (10 for 11 the last three games).” Sporting News Pick: Lions “Josh Allen has been the best individual player in the NFL carrying his team. Jared Goff has been the best team player in the NFL being lifted by great support. Allen can try to take over another game, but a reeling Buffalo defense will have trouble with Detroit using the rushing attack to set up favorable downfield passing for Goff. Allen might need to operate one-dimensionally again, and that sets up a similar result for the Bills as Week 14 at the Rams.” CBS Sports Pick: Lions “The Bills defense struggled to stop the Ravens and Rams -- two teams that both have loaded offenses -- and I think we’ll see them struggle to stop the Lions. If Josh Allen can deliver another six touchdown game on Sunday, then I think the Bills can win, but there’s no way he’s doing that two weeks in a row. Right? RIGHT?!?” Pro Football Network Pick: Lions “The metrics say that the Detroit Lions are the better team across the board, with the Buffalo Bills lagging behind them by some distance defensively and on special teams. The Lions have also played a slightly tougher schedule. This game has the makings of being a high-scoring one, which makes the line tough to judge. Those exciting back-and-forth type games are often won on the final possession, so any line below seven points is tough to play.” Arizona Republic Pick: Lions “We really wanted to pick the Bills in this game, but the Lions have won 11 games in a row and Buffalo is just 4-3 away from Highmark Stadium this season. Josh Allen will impress again, but the Lions will win in a thriller.” NBC Sports (Pro Football Talk) Pick: Lions “Buffalo’s defense won’t be able to slow down Detroit’s offense.”

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There’s been a lot of discussion of late over link penalties, and which social platforms penalize links in posts, as a means to keep users from tapping away to other apps. Because that’s engagement that they could keep in-house, and why should social platforms give publishers the capacity to simply steal away their audience? Well, social platforms, of course, also serve as information-sharing tools, and that process logically benefits from external links. But over time, more and more platforms have seemingly implemented penalties for including links in posts, or made it impossible to do, which reduces the value of social apps for anyone looking to drive traffic back to their own sites. So where do each of the big social apps stand on links and link penalties? Here’s what we know, based on their own statements and data notes. Facebook Facebook has not directly stated that its algorithm penalizes link posts, though link posts have become less and less prevalent in the app over time, reducing referral traffic. According to Facebook’s own data , more than 95% of the posts displayed in user feeds don’t include an external link, and that percentage has been increasing over time. So while Facebook may not be directly reducing the reach of link posts, it is reducing their prevalence, in favor of AI-recommended post insertion (predominantly Reels), and reduced organic reach for Page updates. Facebook has also been moving away from news content , and this is another impediment to link reach. So whether Facebook’s algorithm directly reduces the reach of link posts or not, they are seeing far less reach, and thus engagement, than they did once before. Instagram Instagram doesn’t let you post links in captions, so it’s never really been great for driving referral traffic either way. It does, however, enable you to share links in Stories, and those are, at least in theory , not reach restricted, though they are only distributed to your followers. Getting reach beyond your established audience for links is difficult on IG either way, but there’s not much evidence to suggest that it’s actively limiting external links. I guess, because it doesn’t have to, being they’re already a minor factor. Threads There’s been a lot of speculation as to whether Threads punishes posts that include an external link, but according to Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri, that’s not happening. Some users still believe that it is actively limiting the reach of link posts, but according to Mosseri, that’s purely driven by user behavior, not direct limitations imposed by the app. X X does limit the reach of posts that include an external link. X owner Elon Musk has repeatedly noted this , saying that this is both due to algorithmic updates and user behavior: Since the algorithm recommends posts based on how much time people spend on them, both video and text content posted on this platform naturally get boosted more than links off platform, as the time spent on a link is short X has also been found to be throttling links to certain publications . So overall, links are not welcome on X. Because X would prefer that more people share their thoughts direct in the app. Just write a description in the main post and put the link in the reply. This just stops lazy linking. TikTok Like IG, TikTok also has limited capacity to support links, as you can’t include URLs in descriptions or comments. That means that TikTok doesn’t have to restrict the reach of links, because you can’t really add them anyway, and there’s no evidence to suggest that TikTok restricts links included via your profile bio. Unless you’re linking to an eCommerce platform, like Amazon, which TikTok sees as a competitor. TikTok won’t allow you to link to these platforms . Snapchat Snapchat also doesn’t provide much room for links, at least within public posts, and there’s no reach penalty for links posted within promoted Snaps. Snap does restrict some links to other social apps, and it won’t allow you to link to pages that don’t load within its browser. But theoretically at least, you can post links in Stories with no reach penalty. That said, user engagement may be lower on public Snaps with links, and that may organically limit link posts. LinkedIn LinkedIn doesn’t officially restrict external links, but it did make a change earlier this year which reduces the link preview size in posts , unless brands pay to promote them. So, if you don’t pay to promote a link post, you get the smaller image preview, but if you pay, you get the more prominent one, which would drive more clicks. Various external studies have also shown that link posts do get significantly less reach in the app . So while it’s not confirmed, there are seemingly several measures within LinkedIn that’ll limit the reach of your link posts. So, overall, there are no social platforms that are entirely open to links. Well, other than Bluesky, which sees external links as a key element of its approach. We love links because we love the open web [image or embed] That’s another reason why journalists are so big on the Twitter alternative at the moment, and if Bluesky does become a major app, that could be a big benefit. But other than that, most social apps are not overly keen to help you drive traffic to your sites.None

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Australian PGA winner Elvis Smylie has the “right team” around him and the game to handle the swift ascension to the big time that other previous young winners of the tournament haven’t, according to his superstar peers. Smylie earnt a full-time playing card on the DP World Tour as well as $340,000 courtesy of his two-shot win over Cameron Smith at Royal Queensland and jumped 483 places on the world rankings to a career-high 253. That leap makes him the ninth-highest ranked Australian in the world going into this week’s Australian Open in Melbourne where the spotlight will be on the 22-year-old left-hander to continue a bold campaign that also netted him the WA Open and three other top-10 finishes in his past six events. Elvis Smylie wins the 2024 @bmwau #AusPGA Championship 🏆 pic.twitter.com/QC1uZMx6nO — PGA of Australia (@PGAofAustralia) November 24, 2024 Smylie’s success has come after a coaching shift, joining the stable of Peth-based Richie Smith, who remains central to the careers of Min Woo Lee, who won the Australian PGA in 2023 and played a full year on the US PGA Tour in 2024, as well as major champions Minjee Lee and Hannah Green. Making that move could, according to Jason Day, be crucial in giving Smylie the “structure” he needs to continue to accelerate his career, something that has been hard for other young winners of the Australian “major”. In 2021, Queenslander Jed Morgan became the youngest winner of the Australian PGA, aged just 22. But he missed cuts in nine of his next 16 events, joined the LIV Golf tour in 2023 but was dumped from the all-Australian Ripper GC team at the end of the season and is now ranked 985th, battling to keep his Asian tour card. Nathan Holman was another surprise winner of the Australian PGA in 2015 but struggled in Europe after earning his tour card via his win and stopped playing professionally three years later. Jed Morgan was the youngest winner of the Australian PGA Championship in 2021. Picture: Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images But Smylie is more geared to follow the path of Min Woo Lee, according to former world No.1 Day who liked what he saw in the left-hander. “He was struggling there for a little bit and then he transferred to Richie (Smith) and he has done a great job with Minners (Lee) but also Hannah and Minjee,” Day said after finishing in a tie for eighth at Royal Queensland, his first event in Australia since 2017. “I think he is going to help Elvis, because Elvis is a young guy, to give him a bit more structure. What a lot of kids miss, especially Australians, is they miss the structure of being a professional and being on tour. “If you can handle that and make that more routine, you are able to just improve dramatically. I think his team, the guys he’s working with, they have done it before which gives you confidence knowing ‘I have a good team behind me’.” Cameron Smith said it was a “bittersweet” moment watching Smylie, a former holder of the Cameron Smith scholarship, relegate him to second and wasn’t sure a win like that would “happen so quickly” when the British Open champ started to help the next generation. Elvis Smylie is congratulated by Cameron Smith at Royal Queensland. Picture: Patrick Hamilton / AFP But Smith, who said he wanted to be someone “for them to talk to” having felt he missed out on that coming through the ranks, said all the signs, even before Smylie’s win, pointed to long-term success. “It’s a long way to come from being a junior golfer to a professional golfer and he keeps making the right steps,” Smith aid. “You could tell, even that week he was there, that he’s a hard worker, which is a really good trait to have. He should enjoy this win but keep working hard, he’s got a really long way to go. “For me the biggest thing was having someone for them to talk to. I feel like I had a couple of years there where I could have used that. “I saw it (the scholarship) as an opportunity, you help really young kids, particularly ones travelling all over the world, as they have to really. Then a few tricks and lessons here and there, but more than anything else, just someone to have a chat to.” Originally published as Elvis Smylie predicted for bigger things after Australian PGA win brings rankings bump Golf Don't miss out on the headlines from Golf. Followed categories will be added to My News. More related stories Golf McEnroe, Graceland, Elvis: Birth of an Aussie golf phenom Elvis Smylie, the son of tennis royalty lived up to his rock star name, trumping Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman to win the Australian PGA. But the origin of his famous name - and his journey to PGA winner - is a story in itself. Read more Golf Smith upstaged by young Aussie at PGA Cam Smith has fallen short in his bid to win a fourth Australian PGA Championship, with another Queenslander prevailing. Read more