gonzo1105 Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 I was thinking about this after today's game and probably should have brought this up when the actual schedule came out but the NFL did the Bills a huge favor this year in their scheduling. It obviously helps that the Bills are 2-0 but as we all know the NFL takes a toll on players over the course of the season. Most players are banged up by midseason because of travel, the nature of the game and weather amongst other things. The crossover to the NFC East this year obviously helps these matters but it should keep the Bills much fresher due to their short travel times to different locations this year. As I looked at the schedule, obviously the Jets and Giants are both really short flights that dont require a ton of travel time. The Bills only lengthy road trip in the months of September and October is to Tennessee for the Titans game on October 6th, the 5th game of the season. Even then the Bills catch a break in this, as they will be able to get rest the following week as their bye week follows that road trip to recuperate and rest up. After that they have 3 more home games and a very short road trip to Cleveland. The Bills will not have to travel a good distance until November 17 with the Dolphins, who are terrible as we all can see. I wonder how much this will help the Bills down the stretch of those road games at the end of the season as other teams have experienced more travel time on their bodies over the course of the year. Cant hurt right? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fridge Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 Great write up. Hopefully we keep rolling so the easy schedule helps us get to games in January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Riverside Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 I like where we got our bye week as well.....almost right in the middle....enough to lick our wounds and make a 2nd half of schedule push Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Finkel Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Win 4 road games and 6 home = playoffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunken Pygmy Goat Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 (edited) There's more than just that. IIRC, the Bills do not play a team that is coming off of a bye this year. Also, the Eagles at Bills game is the Bills' 3rd home game in a row, while it's the Eagles' 3rd straight road game. The Bills have already had the benefit of the Jets and Giants missing key offensive weapons, and AJ Green may not suit up next week, especially since the Bengals have a divisional matchup with Pittsburgh in week 4. The back end of the Bills schedule looks pretty tough, although Pittsburgh may not be as difficult as we thought. The first half of the Bills schedule is pretty decent. If the Bills have less than 5 wins going into the 2nd half, they'll have a tough time getting into the playoffs, but they could easily have 5 or 6 wins by then IMO. If the Bills are for real, they'll win a few of those tough games down the stretch. Edited September 16, 2019 by Drunken Pygmy Goat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virgil Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 We still have to play the Pats twice, which looks just as daunting as ever. With how week 2 went though, the Wild Card looks like anyone's game 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hebert19 Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 This is a good thread. Back end looked very tough at beginning but Pitt looks weak. Dallas is overrated in my opinion. Jets and Broncos suck and ravens have to come to our house. 11-5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLTbills Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 15 minutes ago, Ray Finkel said: Win 4 road games and 6 home = playoffs And we've already won 2, plus have the dolphins. should be easy to get to four road wins.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tierlifer Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 12 minutes ago, Drunken Pygmy Goat said: There's more than just that. IIRC, the Bills do not play a team that is coming off of a bye this year. Also, the Eagles at Bills game is the Bills' 3rd home game in a row, while it's the Eagles' 3rd straight road game. The Bills have already had the benefit of the Jets and Giants missing key offensive weapons, and AJ Green may not suit up next week, especially since the Bengals have a divisional matchup with Pittsburgh in week 4. The back end if the Bills schedule looks pretty tough, although Pittsburgh may not be as difficult as we thought. The first half of the Bills schedule is pretty decent. If the Bills have less than 5 wins going into the 2nd half, they'll have a tough time getting into the playoffs, but they could easily have 5 or 6 wins by then IMO. If the Bills are for real, they'll win a few of those tough games down the stretch. What’s funny about that stretch in the Eagles schedule is that did that because they anticipated the Sillies errr I mean the Phillies making a deep October run in MLB playoffs and since their stadiums are next to each other they wanted to avoid a logistical nightmare. Phillies and their 350 million dollar baby Harper all but done and there won’t be any post season baseball in Philly haha! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyVanMiller Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 2019 NFL travel miles (Road games where team travels more than 2,000 miles in parentheses) 1. Raiders: 32,023* (1) 2. Rams: 29,974* (3) 3. Chargers: 28,262** (2) 4. Seahawks: 27,484 (5) 5. 49ers: 25,512 (4) 6. Buccaneers: 24,532* (2) 7. Jaguars: 22,508* (1) 8. Panthers: 22,008* (1) 9. Cardinals: 21,774 10. Texans: 21,368* (1) 11. Bengals: 20,440* (1) 12. Cowboys: 18,074 13. Dolphins: 17,602 14. Bears: 17,234* 15. Ravens: 15,624 (2) 16. Steelers: 15,146 (2) 17. Chiefs: 14,298** 18. Saints: 14,284 (1) 19. Broncos: 14,270 20. Falcons: 13,590 (1) 21. Lions: 13,538 (1) 22. Browns: 13,380 (1) 23. Packers: 12,966 24. Vikings: 12,604 25. Colts: 11,828 26. Titans: 10,706 27. Eagles: 10,346 28. Patriots: 9,906 29. Redskins: 9,358 30. Bills: 8,710 31. Giants: 8,112 32. Jets: 6,730 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo1105 Posted September 16, 2019 Author Share Posted September 16, 2019 3 minutes ago, ChevyVanMiller said: 2019 NFL travel miles (Road games where team travels more than 2,000 miles in parentheses) 1. Raiders: 32,023* (1) 2. Rams: 29,974* (3) 3. Chargers: 28,262** (2) 4. Seahawks: 27,484 (5) 5. 49ers: 25,512 (4) 6. Buccaneers: 24,532* (2) 7. Jaguars: 22,508* (1) 8. Panthers: 22,008* (1) 9. Cardinals: 21,774 10. Texans: 21,368* (1) 11. Bengals: 20,440* (1) 12. Cowboys: 18,074 13. Dolphins: 17,602 14. Bears: 17,234* 15. Ravens: 15,624 (2) 16. Steelers: 15,146 (2) 17. Chiefs: 14,298** 18. Saints: 14,284 (1) 19. Broncos: 14,270 20. Falcons: 13,590 (1) 21. Lions: 13,538 (1) 22. Browns: 13,380 (1) 23. Packers: 12,966 24. Vikings: 12,604 25. Colts: 11,828 26. Titans: 10,706 27. Eagles: 10,346 28. Patriots: 9,906 29. Redskins: 9,358 30. Bills: 8,710 31. Giants: 8,112 32. Jets: 6,730 Awesome, great find to further prove my original point. Appreciate the research 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiotAct Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 14 minutes ago, CLTbills said: And we've already won 2, plus have the dolphins. should be easy to get to four road wins.. Dolphins, Titans (who actually aren’t very good), and Steelers (which who knows what kinda shape Big Ben will be in by then). Boom, there’s 5 right there. Oh and Cleveland, who originally I had winning the AFC North but we’ll see... that game might not be as tough as I first thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlando Tim Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 I am not counting any games as W until later because of injuries and such except the dolphins- so we will have 12 other games in which we must split to go 10-6 therefore due to the schedule I think we are in a very advantageous situation. Basically I am agreeing with OP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78thealltimegreat Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 1 hour ago, Hebert19 said: This is a good thread. Back end looked very tough at beginning but Pitt looks weak. Dallas is overrated in my opinion. Jets and Broncos suck and ravens have to come to our house. 11-5 Agree with you about Pitt but Dallas is an entirely different animal that one will be extremely difficult especially on Thanksgiving Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunken Pygmy Goat Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Also keep in mind that, with an easier first half of the season, if the Bills continue to stack Ws, they'll be much more confident going into that tougher back stretch of games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCBills Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 1 minute ago, Drunken Pygmy Goat said: Also keep in mind that, with an easier first half of the season, if the Bills continue to stack Ws, they'll be much more confident going into that tougher back stretch of games. Also, we have a 2nd Year QB and brand new OL that should only get better as the year goes on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ennjay Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 2 hours ago, ChevyVanMiller said: 2019 NFL travel miles (Road games where team travels more than 2,000 miles in parentheses) 1. Raiders: 32,023* (1) 2. Rams: 29,974* (3) 3. Chargers: 28,262** (2) 4. Seahawks: 27,484 (5) 5. 49ers: 25,512 (4) 6. Buccaneers: 24,532* (2) 7. Jaguars: 22,508* (1) 8. Panthers: 22,008* (1) 9. Cardinals: 21,774 10. Texans: 21,368* (1) 11. Bengals: 20,440* (1) 12. Cowboys: 18,074 13. Dolphins: 17,602 14. Bears: 17,234* 15. Ravens: 15,624 (2) 16. Steelers: 15,146 (2) 17. Chiefs: 14,298** 18. Saints: 14,284 (1) 19. Broncos: 14,270 20. Falcons: 13,590 (1) 21. Lions: 13,538 (1) 22. Browns: 13,380 (1) 23. Packers: 12,966 24. Vikings: 12,604 25. Colts: 11,828 26. Titans: 10,706 27. Eagles: 10,346 28. Patriots: 9,906 29. Redskins: 9,358 30. Bills: 8,710 31. Giants: 8,112 32. Jets: 6,730 No surprise except I would knee-jerk always expect Seattle to travel the most. Giants and Jets are the only teams with a zero for a road game since they play each other. 8 minutes ago, SCBills said: Also, we have a 2nd Year QB and brand new OL that should only get better as the year goes on. Absolutely true -- barring injury. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganesh Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 The key to this run is Mitch Morse. He was dominating at the LoS yesterday against a pretty good Giants front seven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherpa Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 49ers zeroing out travel this week. Their staying in Youngstown this week between Bengals and Browns away games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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