Gregg Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 17 minutes ago, WhitewalkerInPhilly said: I suspect we end the season vs the Jets. We've been rotating and the NFL loves doing division matchups on Week 18 For some reason the league likes it when the Bills and Jets open against one another. Both teams have been since 1960. They have opened the season against one another about a 1/3 of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJB Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 So do we play the Jets this year? 🧐 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregg Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 1 minute ago, DJB said: So do we play the Jets this year? 🧐 Better not lose to them a 3rd straight time at MetLife. We had a nice winning streak in that stadium for a while including the Giants game. It was a few years ago when they played at the Jets and at the Giants in weeks 1 and 2. They won both games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corta765 Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 1 hour ago, Gregg said: For some reason the league likes it when the Bills and Jets open against one another. Both teams have been since 1960. They have opened the season against one another about a 1/3 of the time. The last time the Bills opened with Miami was 2010. Super weird note as it was more common for a while and now they haven't opened in nearly a decade and a half. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregg Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 1 minute ago, corta765 said: The last time the Bills opened with Miami was 2010. Super weird note as it was more common for a while and now they haven't opened in nearly a decade and a half. Same with the Pats. It's been a while, but the Bills and Jets seem to open with each other every 3 years or so it seems. It's almost 1/3 of the time since both franchises existed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corta765 Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 51 minutes ago, Gregg said: Same with the Pats. It's been a while, but the Bills and Jets seem to open with each other every 3 years or so it seems. It's almost 1/3 of the time since both franchises existed. It is wild since 2004 looks like this: Bills didn't open against the Jets from 2002 until 2012. Since 2012 Buffalo's opened vs NY 5 times and 3 of the last 5. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregg Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 3 minutes ago, corta765 said: It is wild since 2004 looks like this: Bills didn't open against the Jets from 2002 until 2012. Since 2012 Buffalo's opened vs NY 5 times and 3 of the last 5. Last time vs Miami 2010 and New England 2013. I get opening within the division. That happens all the time. But it is strange that the Bills open with the Jets so many times and hardly any vs the Fins and Pats in recent history. It doesn't matter in the end as the Bills play all 3 teams a combined 6 times anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corta765 Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 32 minutes ago, Gregg said: Last time vs Miami 2010 and New England 2013. I get opening within the division. That happens all the time. But it is strange that the Bills open with the Jets so many times and hardly any vs the Fins and Pats in recent history. It doesn't matter in the end as the Bills play all 3 teams a combined 6 times anyway. Closest I can think of is PIT/CLE had a little stretch like that in the mid 2010s and NYG/DAL seemingly play every opening week. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigK14094 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Brazil has unique problems with staging a game. Medical facilities and supplies for one. My company built a plant down there, and we had special provisions made for medical treatments. Standards are not the same. But, if luck was good, no hospital needed for a game. But, great food and drink and a great country imho. I loved the people down there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corta765 Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 5 minutes ago, bigK14094 said: Brazil has unique problems with staging a game. Medical facilities and supplies for one. My company built a plant down there, and we had special provisions made for medical treatments. Standards are not the same. But, if luck was good, no hospital needed for a game. But, great food and drink and a great country imho. I loved the people down there. Yea the NFL is taking a bit of risk standard wise as it is not up to par and I gotta believe they will have their own medical provided across the board. Like you said great people, but it will be interesting to see how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ControllerOfPlanetX Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 4 hours ago, WhitewalkerInPhilly said: I suspect we end the season vs the Jets. We've been rotating and the NFL loves doing division matchups on Week 18 good, the Jets will be running for the bus at that point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIT BY SPIKES Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Anything else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonyab1974 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 On 1/31/2024 at 2:28 PM, corta765 said: "The Bills will not play opening night. The Bills host the Chiefs and 49ers in 2024 so while those games certainly have primetime potential it will not be week 1 against the SB champion." Really? Why won't they play opening night? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low Positive Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Just now, sonyab1974 said: Really? Why won't they play opening night? Because the defending champion plays a home game on Thursday of week 1, and both the Niners and Chiefs games will be in Buffalo. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregg Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 1 minute ago, sonyab1974 said: Really? Why won't they play opening night? The Super Bowl champion plays the first game of the year at home on Thursday night. The Niners and Chiefs both come to Buffalo next year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuco Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 (edited) On 1/31/2024 at 9:10 PM, djp14150 said: excluding 3 road/ home games in row with a bye in between…..the league DOES NOT schedule 3 in a row. The 3 in the row come about in final adjustments in flipping weeks before schedule gets published. The scheduling is a constraint satisfaction problem. I understand this fully. They set the national games and thxgvg, special day, foreign site games first. From there they fill in schedules. This takes into account schedule conflicts like in Seattle, Baltimore, KC, and others that have baseball and football stadiums next to each other. Look at the baseball schedules. If mariners is home on opening weekend fri-wed. Seattle opens on the road. They also take into account other events like concerts and other events in the area. Teams submit to the league scheduling office on these conflicts. they create a subset of games that is used to decide the national games ( including 425 games). You can go through and take games from divisional, inter league, div vs div same conf, placement games, other games of note ( rematch in playoffs), former coach/ QB/ big name player returning, Thursday having all teams on it, younger up and coming teams thry likely get an earlier national game than one in December that gets flexed out, and bye weeks like around overseas game. It’s far easier in scheduling to do this in advance than try to get them in the schedule. In the past few years you have seen 2 teams from thxgvg face each other on Thursday the week before or after is not some schedule luck. It was pre- planned. Similarly teams who have nearby baseball stadium….they try to build schedule flexibility in case games need to be moved. It’s a first game of divisional teams or the two teams share the same bye week. Stadiums like these are Seattle, Baltimore, Detroit, KC, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and others. there is caps on national game scheduling in prime time. They added other rules around divisional game scheduling where both are not on prime time national tv. it’s possible the bills 2 west coast games get scheduled for the same trip. It can be one on Sunday, followed by one on Thursday. um …divisional games in last weeks….just about all teams have 2-3 divisional games post thxgvg week on their schedule. Usually a 1 vs 2 in division is one of them. Expect bills playing jets or dolphins in thr final weeks. Sincr patriots changing coaches I don’t expect a late NE game over the last 3 weeks. Yeah there's lots of "rules" and requests the league tries to adhere to when making the schedule. A lot has to do with the TV markets not competing with each other for teams in the same market. Basically, in addition to using the same stadium, the Jets and Giants almost never play at the same time. Used to be the same with the Raiders and Niners. Now it's the Raiders and Chargers. To a lesser extent they try to keep the Ravens and Commanders from playing at the same time as their TV markets overlap. Then throw in other stadium conflicts with MLB or Olympics or whatever and the league trying not to schedule 3 game road trips unless they really have to. It gets pretty complicated. Throw in more and more networks competing for quality prime-time games while CBS and FOX lobby to keep their top matchups. Then there's other things. The Jets and Giants, in addition to not playing at the same time, always request road games during certain Jewish holidays as their Jewish fans can't be out after dark or something like that. Last year the league scheduled the Jets at home during one of these holidays and caught a lot of grief for it. So usually on whatever weekend that falls on the Jets and Giants will both be on the road and at different times. There's been articles written that talk about just how many requests they get and try to deal with. Teams like the Bills don't want to play in Miami in September. Miami doesn't want to play in Buffalo in January. It's impossible to keep everyone happy. But no doubt there's a hierarchy where some factions have more pull than others. I would imagine TV networks and stadium conflicts along with the league's desire to have lots of division matchups late are at the top of the list. Edited February 2 by Tuco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djp14150 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 8 hours ago, Tuco said: Yeah there's lots of "rules" and requests the league tries to adhere to when making the schedule. A lot has to do with the TV markets not competing with each other for teams in the same market. Basically, in addition to using the same stadium, the Jets and Giants almost never play at the same time. Used to be the same with the Raiders and Niners. Now it's the Raiders and Chargers. To a lesser extent they try to keep the Ravens and Commanders from playing at the same time as their TV markets overlap. Then throw in other stadium conflicts with MLB or Olympics or whatever and the league trying not to schedule 3 game road trips unless they really have to. It gets pretty complicated. Throw in more and more networks competing for quality prime-time games while CBS and FOX lobby to keep their top matchups. Then there's other things. The Jets and Giants, in addition to not playing at the same time, always request road games during certain Jewish holidays as their Jewish fans can't be out after dark or something like that. Last year the league scheduled the Jets at home during one of these holidays and caught a lot of grief for it. So usually on whatever weekend that falls on the Jets and Giants will both be on the road and at different times. There's been articles written that talk about just how many requests they get and try to deal with. Teams like the Bills don't want to play in Miami in September. Miami doesn't want to play in Buffalo in January. It's impossible to keep everyone happy. But no doubt there's a hierarchy where some factions have more pull than others. I would imagine TV networks and stadium conflicts along with the league's desire to have lots of division matchups late are at the top of the list. yes there are many other factors with shared stadiums in LA and NY. I live in DC area. Generally DC and Baltimore aren’t on the same network at the same time. They do place at the same time. Similarly NY and LA teams can play at the same time just not on same network. Because of shared stadium therr is a higher likelihood of non sunday games being played there. That’s why I wouldn’t be surprised if bills at rams and bills at jets are not on Sunday. Safe bet Ravens at chargers ( brother coaches face off) on a Monday night in early October avoiding early baseball playoff conflict were ravens at home . some of these blackout dates for home games are regular like the stadium hosting high school championship games or college games, bowl season or regular season. For example a Norte dame at navy game will be played in Baltimore or Washington stadiums. I expect the new nashville football stadium will be a regular venue for SEC championship games. Washington nee football stadium probably hosts ACC or big 10 championship and probably hosts a bowl game. Houston stadium has a big Xmas shopping season event like the weekend of thxgvg or the weekend sfter so no games there. Other stadiums have concerts on Saturday in Sept- Nov. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonyab1974 Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 On 2/2/2024 at 10:25 AM, Gregg said: The Super Bowl champion plays the first game of the year at home on Thursday night. Oh really? Wow! Okay. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler#81 Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 NFL just announced the Eagles will be playing in Brazil next season. Announcement doesn’t say who they’re playing but it definitely won’t be Buffalo. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoonerBillsFan Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Bills at Lions on Thanksgiving? Makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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