Do NFL players think Colts vs. Bills snowstorm was perfect football weather?

There were near-whiteout conditions in Buffalo Sunday as the Colts prepared to take on the Bills. And every sports media outlet and commentator seemed to chime in about the perfect “football weather.”

Everybody loves to watch snow games. But do players love to play in them? We’ve asked some players to weigh in. But first, let’s go over what happened in the sloppy Colts vs. Bills matchup that narrowly avoided ending in a tie.

Snow that heavy makes offenses one-dimensional. The three quarterbacks — Jacoby Brissett for the Colts, and Bills backups Joe Webb and Nathan Peterman, who left the game with a head injury — combined for 161 passing yards over the entire game and overtime.

It’s impressive that Brissett connected on any passes. You could barely even see the Colts in their road whites. There were times that visibility was almost zero.

The snow wasn’t this deep. But it was pretty deep.

Even Adam Vinatieri, who’s one of the most reliable kickers in NFL history and has missed just three field goals all year, shanked one wide right in the first quarter. He missed another one in the second half that could have won the game for the Colts. In that weather, who can blame him?

The only phase of either team’s game that was rolling was the ground game.

Frank Gore had 130 yards on 36 carries, a career high for the 34-year-old running back. And LeSean McCoy had 32 carries for 156 yards and the game-winning score with 1:33 left in overtime. The Colts and Bills combined for 97 carries, which is extremely unusual.

McCoy said after the game he slipped in the snow here and there, but for the most part, it wasn’t any different for him.

“Being a Pennsylvania kid, I’ve played in the snow before, which is crazy because I never had a lot of snow games in high school,” McCoy said, via the team’s website. “But at Pittsburgh, I played in maybe one snow game and then the one in Philadelphia. I don’t know, I still can cut and run like if there was no snow.”

Bills wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin is from Florida and went to Florida State. He spent the first few years of his career in warmer Carolina. He’s not used to it, but he enjoyed playing in the snow.

“I was like a kid, man. I was having fun with it, just embracing it,” Benjamin said. “It was very windy, but at the same time, we had to go out there and get the win, and we did.”

Browns left tackle Joe Thomas, moonlighting as a meteorologist while he’s on injured reserve, was a fan of the 28 degree forecast for Cleveland’s game at home against the Packers.

Last week, Thomas said the 65-degree temperatures in Los Angeles when the Browns played the Chargers were a little too toasty.

”If you’re a fat guy, you might be a little too warm out there,” Thomas said.

Retired offensive lineman Geoff Schwartz, who played in a warmer climate with the Panthers, and in colder locales with the Giants and Vikings, told SB Nation that football weather can be different things to different people.

“Football weather is when you see your breath. Or 65 and a light breeze,” Schwartz said. “Depends where you live.”

Falcons wide receiver Mohamed Sanu Sr. played college ball at Rutgers in New Jersey, which is undoubtedly a colder environment. He plays in the Falcons’ brand new Mercedes Benz Stadium now. But he also spent four seasons in the open-air Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati with the Bengals.

Sanu said the weather is irrelevant.

“Any weather is football weather,” Sanu told SB Nation. “Heat, cold, rain, snow — doesn’t matter. Just gotta prepare your mind for whatever is ahead of you.”

Whether you think the weather in Buffalo for Colts vs. Bills is football weather or not, we may see something like it again next Sunday. The forecast is calling for a low of 30 with 78 percent humidity when the Bills welcome the Dolphins to New Era Field in Week 15.