CHICAGO – Following a spirited Friday of practicing against each other at Halas Hall, the Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears will complete their weekend with a nationally-televised preseason game Sunday night at Soldier Field.

The Bills dropped their preseason opener 34-25 to old friend Brian Daboll and his New York Giants eight days ago, while the Bears — under new coach Ben Johnson — played to a 24-24 tie at home against the Miami Dolphins, a game that was played also after a joint practice.

Josh Allen of the Bills and Caleb Williams of the Bears both sat out the preseason openers, and it stands to reason that neither will play in this game, especially after the controlled environment they were able to work in on Friday.

In fact, a good majority of the Bills starters who played last week may not get onto the field because coach Sean McDermott and his staff have some key personnel decisions to make at the bottom of the roster, including the backup quarterback duel between Mitch Trubisky and Mike White.

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The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle is bringing you live updates, scores and highlights from the game. Follow along.

Date: Sunday, Aug. 17Time: 8 p.m. ET.  Where: Soldier Field

Cable/Network TV: FOX. The game will be available locally via the following stations: WUHF channel 7 (Rochester area), WUTV channel 29 (Buffalo area), WSYT channel 68 (Syracuse area), WFXV channel 33 (Utica area), WYDC channel 48 (Elmira area), WXXA channel 23 (Albany area), and WICZ (Binghamton area).

Online streaming services: You can watch games on NFL.com and the NFL mobile app, and you can subscribe to NFL+, the league’s own streaming service, though you can’t cast the games to your TV – you must watch on your phone or tablet.

TV streaming: You can also stream if you have subscriptions to Spectrum, DirecTV, fuboTV, NFL+, Sling, Vidgo, Hulu + Live TV, and YouTube TV.

You can listen on SiriusXM satellite radio on channel 380 (Bills feed) and channel 88 (Bears feed), and on traditional radio as the Bills Radio Network has stations all across the state. Chris Brown has the play-by-play, Eric Wood is the analyst, and Sal Capaccio is the sideline reporter. The network includes:

Rochester (WCMF 96.5/WROC 950 AM)Buffalo (WGR 550 AM)Syracuse (WKRL 100.9/106.5)Binghamton (WDRE 100.5FM)Ithaca (WIII 99.9/100.3 FM)Bath (WVIN 98.3 FM)Newark (WACK 1420 AM)Dansville (WDNY 93.9 FM)Elmira (WNGZ 1490 AM)Auburn (WAUB 98.1 FM/1590 AM)Geneva (WGVA 95.9 FM, 1240 AM)

This is Buffalo’s preseason schedule and results (winner in CAPS). 

Game 1: Aug. 9, Giants 34, Bills 25.Game 2: Aug.. 17, Bills vs. Bears, 8 p.m.Game 3: Aug. 23, Bills vs. Buccaneers, 7:30 p.m.

Sal Maiorana has covered the Buffalo Bills for four decades including 35 years as the full-time beat writer for the D&C, he has written numerous books about the history of the team, and he is also co-host of the BLEAV in Bills podcast/YouTube show. He can be reached at maiorana@gannett.com, and you can follow him on X @salmaiorana and on Bluesky @salmaiorana.bsky.social.