Bills have the biggest rest disadvantage in 2025 among playoff contenders

[Kelly to Allen]

1 hour ago, 90sBills said:

How is that relevant to the ‘25 Bills?

 

This bills team also reminds me a lot of that 23 Chiefs team... 

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

I love excuses 

[90sBills]

9 hours ago, Kelly to Allen said:

 

This bills team also reminds me a lot of that 23 Chiefs team... 

 

Aside from being an elite team that’s struggling a bit at mid season I don’t see any other similarities at all. 

[Kelly to Allen]

1 hour ago, 90sBills said:

 

Aside from being an elite team that’s struggling a bit at mid season I don’t see any other similarities at all. 

 

I mean 1-2 plays in these playoff games and the QBs are basically identical....

 

KC in 23 also had wr issues and were te centric. 

 

 

[Dr.Sack]

Rest, sleeping in? Talk to Keon about that topic - he knows the importance of sleep. 

[90sBills]

2 hours ago, Kelly to Allen said:

 

I mean 1-2 plays in these playoff games and the QBs are basically identical....

 

KC in 23 also had wr issues and were te centric. 

 

 

 

Sure on the surface it may seem that way. But KC was defending champs that year. Even though they struggled during the regular season they had that championship experience to draw from.

 

The Bills have had playoff failures year after year. They don’t have a reservoir of playoff success to draw from. Now add on regular season struggles and it’s hard to imagine they’re thinking everything would be fine come playoff time. 

[Kelly to Allen]

1 hour ago, 90sBills said:

 

Sure on the surface it may seem that way. But KC was defending champs that year. Even though they struggled during the regular season they had that championship experience to draw from.

 

The Bills have had playoff failures year after year. They don’t have a reservoir of playoff success to draw from. Now add on regular season struggles and it’s hard to imagine they’re thinking everything would be fine come playoff time. 

 

Beating the same dynasty 5 years in a row, then Losing by literally 1-2 plays for basically 4 of the 5 years to the same team that's a dynasty means KC has more accomplishments. It doesn't mean they're better. If anything its about luck when it's that close 

 

I understand it's frustrating but that's just the truth.

 

Sometimes things just don't go your way. It doesn't mean things are wrong or a team in sports isn't great. 

 

If anything that's why so many people are frustrated. Because the team is great and has proven to be great in many moments they just don't have the trophy....

Edited 5 hours ago by Kelly to Allen

[machine gun kelly]

On 11/14/2025 at 9:19 PM, Mike in Horseheads said:

Well, this is a new one. They should not have lost to the Falcons and Dolphins period.

It sucks as we squandered the opportunity to beat 8-1 and in striking distance of the Pats when we would beat them and the Ravens at full strength beat them the next week.

[Ray Stonada]

Maybe 10 hours of practice and 3 hours of playing football a week. Millions of dollars a year. Forgive me if I don't get too sad for the guys.

[Haplo848]

On 11/14/2025 at 7:59 PM, transplantbillsfan said:

I got to thinking about this because I was thinking ahead to the Patriots game when we play a division rival coming off their bye... which sucks.

 

We also played the Falcons coming off their bye.  We know how that went.

 

We also played another division rival in the Dolphins coming off a Thursday night game with an extra 4 days of rest.

 

And ya know what, we're going to play another big conference game against the Bengals where they're coming off a Thanksgiving Thursday Night Football game.

 

Yes, the Bills benefitted from the bye week coming in to play the lowly Panthers and a Saints team we got extra rest for after a TNF game  and will benefit from playing on TNF next week against the Steelers, but we have 2 divisional road games this year where we are scheduled with a rest disadvantage.  

 

All rest disadvantages against conference opponents except the Steelers.

 

 

By itself, I wouldn't really cry foul, but the Bills are -7 in rest disadvantage days for the whole season.  The next closest AFC teams even remotely contending for an AFC playoff spot are the Steelers and Browns both at -4 followed by the Texans at -2.  All the other AFC contenders for the playoffs have a rest advantage with the Jags (if we wanna call them a contender) at +1, the Chiefs and Patriots at +2, the Bengals and Colts at +3 and the Ravens and Chargers at +5.

 

Those are just the contenders for playoffs in the AFC.  To show the disparity in rest advantages, there's a 32 day difference from the team with the greatest rest advantage in the Lions at +13 to the team with the biggest rest disadvantage in the Raiders at -19.

 

And yes... gotta go out and win the games you play... but I guarantee statistically it's significantly more advantageous to play a team with a rest advantage rather than a rest disadvantage.  You would really think in a league that touts its own parity, they would really be trying to make the schedule a little more equal than a 32 day rest disparity from top to bottom.

 

I've always felt that rest advantage is way more important than a lot of people give it credit. That's why it's always one of the first things I look at when the schedule comes out. 

 

Unfortunately, the Bills seem to ALWAYS get negative rest advantages, and when they get the advantage in a week-to-week basis, it seems like it never matters, just like you listed this week. 

 

I'm honestly REALLY tempted to go and try and do a study in order to see just how much of a factor rest advantage actually plays.

[KHAN]

Since division games are the most important, I don't see a reason not to do bye weeks by division, and everyone plays a division game off the bye with equal rest. But the NFL gives zero ****'s about fairness. Only $$$

[Ya Digg?]

4 minutes ago, KHAN said:

Since division games are the most important, I don't see a reason not to do bye weeks by division, and everyone plays a division game off the bye with equal rest. But the NFL gives zero ****'s about fairness. Only $$$

I remember when bye weeks were first a thing that’s how they did them, by division. I don’t remember if they played a division game coming out of the bye though