Looking ahead the potential 2026 Schedule

[BigAl2526]

In theory, if the Bills fail to win the division, New England should end up with a tougher schedule than Buffalo.  Their schedule this year was a fair amount easier than Buffalo's.  

[Kirby Jackson]

38 minutes ago, Alphadawg7 said:

I mean you are more making my point than anything.  Looking ahead and penciling in those wins was pretty pointless given we lost those games.  
 

All good, agree to disagree on the looking ahead way too early thing

Not penciling in anything. All teams are NFL teams. Not all teams are equal NFL teams. If I told you next year, they can play at the Titans or at the Rams, you’d agree that those aren’t the same right?
 

This year they had statistically like a top 5 easiest schedule despite being a division winner. That has largely held true. These teams that they were playing that people expected to be bad, didn’t become good. They are largely what we thought (Jets, Saints, Dolphins, etc). We thought this was an easy schedule and it was. The Bills are the ones that have come up short. It isn’t that teams rose up above what we thought. The exception is New England and they did it with an even easier schedule (which everyone also saw a year out).

Edited 1 hour ago by Kirby Jackson

[Alphadawg7]

24 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:

Not penciling in anything. All teams are NFL teams. Not all teams are equal NFL teams. If I told you next year, they can play at the Titans or at the Rams, you’d agree that those aren’t the same right?
 

This year they had statistically like a top 5 easiest schedule despite being a division winner. That has largely held true. These teams that they were playing that people expected to be bad, didn’t become good. They are largely what we thought (Jets, Saints, Dolphins, etc). We thought this was an easy schedule and it was. The Bills are the ones that have come up short. It isn’t that teams rose up above what we thought. The exception is New England and they did it with an even easier schedule (which everyone also saw a year out).

 

You and I are debating different things.  You want to debate the SOS of last year and I am saying it doesn't matter what the perceived SOS is.  And everyones optimism on the season CHANGED last year AFTER Diggs was traded and we drafted Keon and signed Mack.  Everyone expected a REGRESSION last year going into the season...then we had the best offensive season in Bills history, still dominated our division and got on the door step of the SB until the refs flipped the game by 11-15 points in the 4th quarter stealing a first down from us, not once, but twice on the same series that took at least 3 points off our board, if not more, and gave KC 8 points instead.  

 

So again, last year we were supposed to struggle and we excelled.  This year you say our schedule was supposed to be a cake walk and we have blown 4 games to bad teams.  

 

What value does guessing at our SOS have right now for next year?  Seems like not much.  And for record, I just said its pointless to get too up or down on the upcoming schedule this early.  Its fine to look ahead, but I am more talking about the people who make too much out of it in the first place.  

Edited 1 hour ago by Alphadawg7