An inside look at Sunday’s Jets-Bills Week 15 matchup.

This will be strength-against-strength in this game. The Lions’ offensive line is one of the best in football, and so is the Jets’ defensive line. 

“I would say probably the best O-line that we faced to this point,” Jets defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich said this week. 

The Lions are led by tackles Taylor Decker and Penei Sewell, who combined to allow just one pressure last week against the Vikings. They have been protecting quarterback Jared Goff, who was not sacked once last week, and opening holes in the running game. Jamaal Williams leads the NFL with 14 rushing touchdowns. 

The Jets will test the Lions, though. They have 39 sacks and have been ferocious up front. The Jets could be without their best player, though, as Quinnen Williams has been fighting a calf injury all week and was described as having a “50/50” chance to play. Williams has been unblockable and leads the team with 11 sacks. His absence would be a huge hit for the Jets, but they still have talented pass rushers without him. 

The Lions offense has been rolling, but so has the Jets defense. That makes this an interesting matchup, and throw in Zach Wilson’s return under center and you have plenty of fun storylines. I think Wilson plays well, and the Jets win this one with a Greg Zuerlein field goal as time expires. 

Jets 23, Lions 20 

Goff looks great: The Lions have rebounded from a 1-6 start to win five of their past six and have an outside shot at the playoffs, largely on the back of Jared Goff — the quarterback the Rams shipped to Detroit before last season. Goff has been playing some efficient football. Over his past five games, he has 1,311 passing yards, eight touchdowns and no interceptions. The Jets will be tested against him. 

“Jared Goff, he was the No. 1 pick in the [2016] draft,” Jets coach Robert Saleh said. “He’s led a team to a Super Bowl, and when he’s back there and he’s comfortable, he’s as good as anybody in this game, and he’s playing at a very high level. He’s taking care of the football, I think he’s got seven interceptions on the year. He delivers, I mean he’s very accurate, very accurate with the football, quick decision maker, and he is very comfortable back there and he’s playing very, very well.” 

Take it away: The Jets defense had one takeaway in each of the team’s first nine games, and it became part of what made them so successful, but they have hit a dry spell. They have gotten one turnover in their past four games and none in the past two weeks, both losses. 

“I probably wasn’t emphasizing it well enough,” defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich said. “So, we really shined a light on it this week, starting yesterday, and being very deliberate in the shots we take in practice and being very deliberate in running to the ball for the tips and overthrows and all the things that can happen to that. We really got back to our roots this week, so hopefully that will manifest itself in some turnovers this Sunday.” 

Garrett 1K: Garrett Wilson enters Sunday’s game with 868 receiving yards, which is already the franchise rookie record. But Wilson now can become the team’s first 1,000-yard receiver since 2015 with 132 more yards. The last players to break the 1,000-yard mark for the Jets were Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker in 2015. Marshall set the franchise record with 1,502 yards that season. Wilson likely won’t come near that, but he could end up with one of the 10 best seasons in team history. Wesley Walker’s 1,169 yards in 1978 are 10th all time in Jets history. Wilson has four games to get 300 yards to top that. 

Hutch hits: The Jets figured Aidan Hutchinson would be gone by the time they picked No. 4 overall in last spring’s draft, but they still did work on him and were impressed. The Lions did end up taking Hutchinson No. 2 overall, and he has had a strong rookie season with seven sacks and two interceptions. 

“He’s exactly what we thought he’d be,” Saleh said. “High effort, relentless, he’s got tremendous skill set to him, he’s doing a really nice job.”