wjag Posted May 15 Posted May 15 Someone is selling Standing Room Only tickets for home opener for just $773.27 a piece. No image available We have officially lost our collective minds on ticket pricing for events in this country. 1 1 3 1 Quote
Shaw66 Posted May 15 Posted May 15 45 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said: They competition level in the NFL is not as much as people make out. Those teams at the bottom, more years then not are really not that far off than those that make the playoffs. Sure, there are exceptions every year, like teams such as the Cardinals, Dolphins and Jets appear to be looking at finishing poorly and taking a QB high next year. However for the most part it matters more on WHEN you play a team. What's their injury list like? How many days of rest did they have? Those are the real stories IMO Yeah. There have been a variety of comments here about the schedule, but I think there's very little to talk about. I mean, sure, we all can say "this looks tough," "that's an unfair turnaround," "that stretch will be tough," but the reality is 1. There's great parity in the NFL (with a few exceptions as you note), so almost every game has the potential to be tough. There are very few easy games in the NFL, and predicting them in advance is difficult. 2. As the season progresses, there always are surprise good teams and surprise bad teams; trying to guess which they will be at this time of year is pointless. 3. Injuries always play an important role. 4. Primetime games and tough matchups are the price of success in the league. Bottom line is this: Either your team is good, or it isn't. If it's good, It'll win 11-12-13 games; if it isn't you'll be unhappy. And whether it'll be good or not is pretty much unknowable right now. Training camp is when we'll first start to understand what the Bills have, and even that will be premature. I'm optimistic, but I always am. 1 2 Quote
SirAndrew Posted May 15 Posted May 15 3 minutes ago, wjag said: Someone is selling Standing Room Only tickets for home opener for just $773.27 a piece. No image available We have officially lost our collective minds on ticket pricing for events in this country. I agree, I’ve seen these debates get into conversations about income but I don’t care whether I have the money or not. Is it really wise to spend close to 1K on three hours of entertainment? The market charges what it can, but it’s amazing what people will pay. 1 Quote
RangerDave Posted May 15 Posted May 15 Do I have this right? This year, the Bills play on: Sunday Monday Thursday Friday Saturday Is this a first ever??? (Maybe since the crazy COVID schedules, at least.) Tuesday and Wednesday are feeling awfully left out.... Quote
wjag Posted May 15 Posted May 15 All I care about is our Bills went from "oh good we got the Bills next week" to ""oh boy, we got the Bills next week". Just now, RangerDave said: Do I have this right? This year, the Bills play on: Sunday Monday Thursday Friday Saturday Is this a first ever??? (Maybe since the crazy COVID schedules, at least.) Tuesday and Wednesday are feeling awfully left out.... If memory serves, the Chiefs played on five, maybe six different days last year. Quote
Shaw66 Posted May 15 Posted May 15 6 minutes ago, LLCoolCy said: Interesting… I wonder how much the NFL considers this when putting together the schedule. Chargers are way, way out of whack if this is correct. That Chargers number says they're playing on short rest virtually every week. Bills and Bears are averaging an extra day per week. That isn't fair. Quote
JP51 Posted May 15 Posted May 15 (edited) 17 hours ago, Matt_In_NH said: Chiefs have had that treatment. It’s part of being relevant We all remember the dark years when we would feel disrespected with 1 TNF game and thats it... or one year none... and we clamored for relevancy... welp... we are now relevant... Its like fame you wanna get famous so bad and then you do and you long for privacy... Edited May 15 by JP51 1 Quote
SoCal Deek Posted May 15 Posted May 15 30 minutes ago, SirAndrew said: I agree, I’ve seen these debates get into conversations about income but I don’t care whether I have the money or not. Is it really wise to spend close to 1K on three hours of entertainment? The market charges what it can, but it’s amazing what people will pay. You think the Bills pricing is nuts? Have you checked out the World Cup tickets just to see a two hour soccer match between two countries that you couldn’t care less about? Geeez! 2 1 Quote
transplantbillsfan Posted May 15 Posted May 15 Joe Marino's breakdown Honestly... our schedule is pretty incredibly awesome as far as rest advantages go. 1 Quote
Matt_In_NH Posted May 15 Posted May 15 17 minutes ago, Shaw66 said: I wonder how much the NFL considers this when putting together the schedule. Chargers are way, way out of whack if this is correct. That Chargers number says they're playing on short rest virtually every week. Bills and Bears are averaging an extra day per week. That isn't fair. They probably have two or maybe three teams coming off a bye is my guess. The Bills l bet play no one off a bye week. Quote
JP51 Posted May 15 Posted May 15 1 minute ago, Matt_In_NH said: They probably have two or maybe three teams coming off a bye is my guess. The Bills l bet play no one off a bye week. and I love we get NE after a Thursday game Quote
Augie Posted May 15 Posted May 15 22 minutes ago, Shaw66 said: I wonder how much the NFL considers this when putting together the schedule. Chargers are way, way out of whack if this is correct. That Chargers number says they're playing on short rest virtually every week. Bills and Bears are averaging an extra day per week. That isn't fair. Yet the Bills open up a brand new stadium on 4 days rest. The scheduling isn’t just unfair, it’s often stupid. Quote
Haplo848 Posted May 15 Posted May 15 Since we always knew WHO we were going to play, I'm not really going to focus too much on that. We've known we had a second place schedule. We've known we face the NFC North and AFC West, with the Rams on top of it. None of that is a surprise. It was always going to be a gauntlet no matter how it was arranged. There were never going to be many easy wins out of that schedule. So instead, when the schedule comes out, what I tend to focus on is what is actually new, and the obvious and subtle signs of favoritism in the league. The most obvious signs are, of course, who gets the prime time games. The obvious answer is "whatever teams are good." However, that doesn't tell the whole story. For example, the NFC East kept getting tons of prime time games, even when they were the worst division in football. It does have SOME relation to which teams are good, but it is far more likely to revolve around what teams would bring in the most viewers, which teams which would be the teams with the biggest fan bases AND the best teams, so that the league can make the most amount of money. For non-west coast teams, who don't normally start games at 4-4:30, the number of late afternoon games at those times can be a good indicator of favoritism, too, as you are still getting most of the national audience for those late games, as opposed to the 1 o'clock games, where you end up with nearly 10 games going on simultaneously, and the national audience is split. Sometimes, you can have only 1 or two games televised across the entire country at that time, making it basically a prime time game as well. One sign I'm not actually sure how to judge as favoritism or not is international games. I'm sure that the LEAGUE would view it as a good thing for the team to play in an international game, as it expands the fanbase. However, the team itself probably looks at it as a negative, as the travel is much more difficult than for a normal away game. If you are the away team, it might be a good thing, as you wouldn't have to deal with the rabid fans in the home team's home stadium. However, for the home team, losing a home game to an international game would probably be a bad thing for the team. As such, I kept track of international home/away games. Subtler signs of favoritism can be seen in the schedule, too. For example, if you get fewer consecutive away games in a row, compared to an opponent, that is an advantage for you, as away games tire you out more and are harder more than home games are, so having consecutive away games in a row is harder than having them spread out between home games and/or byes. Two other subtle sign of favoritism that go hand in hand are whether you play teams coming off of byes and how much net rest you get over your opponent, which is a lot harder to figure out than any of the previous signs. For all of the others, you just have to look at the schedule and count it up for the team. For these, you have to go in to the opponent schedule, and look at the game before. Net rest is defined as the amount of days more/less that your team has to rest for the current game since their previous game than their opponent has had. You can do it per game, or calculate the total net rest for the season. For example, if you and your opponent both played on the same day the week before, than both teams net rest would be 0, since they have had the same number of days of rest since their previous games. However, if you were to have played on Sunday the week before, while your opponent played on Thursday Night the previous week, your net rest would be -3, while theirs would be +3, since they have had 3 more days of rest coming into the game than you have had. I looked at the Bills, and this is what I found: Bills Total Net Rest: +14 days over opponents /// +3 (Chargers), -1 (Raiders), +7 (Ravens, due to our bye), -1 (Jets), +3 (Patriots), +1 (Broncos), +2 (Dolphins) Sets of Away Games: 4 - (Rams, Raiders), (Vikings, Jets), (Patriots, Packers), (Broncos, Dolphins) Prime Time Games: 6 night games, 2 late afternoon games International Games: None I was honestly stunned by this. The 4 sets of away games was horrible, but also expected of the league to try to screw us over like that. The prime time games were fairly expected, due to how many we've received in the past few seasons, and how deep we get into the playoffs each year. It's been a couple years since we were screwed over in London against the Jags (where they had already been there for a week, having played another team there the previous week, then we had to come in and play them after they'd been there resting for a whole week, specifically so that the league could figure out how much of a disadvantage coming in against a team that had been there for a week already would put us at, while also giving up a home game to do so. That was also the game that Da'quan Jones and Matt Milano both had their careers basically derailed due to the horrible AstroTurf), thus, I was somewhat surprised we don't have an international game to play. But what really blew my mind was that we had +14 days of total net rest over opponents. This was a COMPLETE turn around over previous years, normally the league gives the Bills negative total net rest, and we're almost aways facing at least one opponent coming off of a bye, sometimes more. As far as I remember, this is the first time I've calculated the net rest for the Bills, and found that it came out to be positive, let alone in the double digits. All in all, our schedule is bad due to who we play, but that had nothing to do with the schedule itself, but instead was due to the rotation of which division faces which other two divisions. The sets of away games suck, there's no getting around that. But we have a good chance of winning some of the tight games, simply because we'll be more rested than the teams that we will be facing. For comparison, here are some other select teams that I spent the past couple hours writing up: Patriots Total Net Rest: +8 (1 week TBD) /// +4 (Steelers), +3 (Dolphins), -3 (Packers), +7 (Chargers, due to Patriots bye), -3 (Bills), +3 (Chiefs), -1 (Jets), -2 (Broncos) Sets of Away Games: 3 (Jags, Bills), (Bears, Dolphins), (Chiefs, Jets) Prime Time Games: 5 night games, 3 late afternoon games International Games: away game in Munich Chiefs Total Net Rest: -8 (1 week TBD) /// -1 (Colts), +7 (Chargers), -3 (Seahawks), -1 (Rams), -3 (Bengals), -3 (Patriots), -4 (49ers), Sets of Away Games: 3 (Dolphins, Raiders), (Seahawks, Broncos), (Bills, Rams, Bengals) Prime Time Games: 6 night games, 5 late afternoon games International Games: None Ravens Total Net Rest: -3 (1 week TBD) /// +1 (Falcons), -7 (Bengals, due to Bengals bye), -7 (Bills, due to Bills bye), +3 (Chargers), -1 (Panthers), -3 (Texans), Bye, +7 (Bucs, due to Ravens bye), +1 (Steelers), +3 (Steelers) Sets of Away Games: 2 (Falcons, Browns), (Panthers, Texans) Prime Time Games: 4 night games, 1 late afternoon games International Games: Away Game in Rio de Janiero Broncos Total Net Rest: +3 (1 week TBD) /// -1 (Jags), +1 (Rams), +3 (Cardinals), -3 (Panthers), +7 (Raiders, due to Broncos bye), +2 (Dolphins), -7 (Jets, due to Jets bye), -1 (Bills), +2 (Patriots) Sets of Away Games: 2 (49ers, Chargers), (Jets, Raiders) Prime Time Games: 4 night games, 9 late afternoon games International Games: None Texans Total Net Rest: +8 /// +7 (Chargers, due to Texans bye), 0, 0, +3 (Ravens), -2 (Steelers), 0, +1 (Jags), -1 (Eagles), +1 (Packers), -1 (Titans) Sets of Away Games: 4 (Titans, Jags), (Chargers, Browns), (Steelers, Commanders), (Eagles, Packers) Prime Time Games: 4 night games, 1 late afternoon game International Games: Away Game in London Bengals Total Net Rest: -4 (1 week TBD) /// , +7 (Ravens, due to Bengals bye), -7 (Steelers, due to Steelers bye), -3 (Commanders), -1 (Saints), -3 (Chiefs), +3 (Browns) Sets of Away Games: 2 (Texans, Steelers), (Panthers, Colts) Prime Time Games: 3 night games, 1 late afternoon games International Games: Away Game in Madrid Just now, Haplo848 said: Since we always knew WHO we were going to play, I'm not really going to focus too much on that. We've known we had a second place schedule. We've known we face the NFC North and AFC West, with the Rams on top of it. None of that is a surprise. It was always going to be a gauntlet no matter how it was arranged. There were never going to be many easy wins out of that schedule. So instead, when the schedule comes out, what I tend to focus on is what is actually new, and the obvious and subtle signs of favoritism in the league. The most obvious signs are, of course, who gets the prime time games. The obvious answer is "whatever teams are good." However, that doesn't tell the whole story. For example, the NFC East kept getting tons of prime time games, even when they were the worst division in football. It does have SOME relation to which teams are good, but it is far more likely to revolve around what teams would bring in the most viewers, which teams which would be the teams with the biggest fan bases AND the best teams, so that the league can make the most amount of money. For non-west coast teams, who don't normally start games at 4-4:30, the number of late afternoon games at those times can be a good indicator of favoritism, too, as you are still getting most of the national audience for those late games, as opposed to the 1 o'clock games, where you end up with nearly 10 games going on simultaneously, and the national audience is split. Sometimes, you can have only 1 or two games televised across the entire country at that time, making it basically a prime time game as well. One sign I'm not actually sure how to judge as favoritism or not is international games. I'm sure that the LEAGUE would view it as a good thing for the team to play in an international game, as it expands the fanbase. However, the team itself probably looks at it as a negative, as the travel is much more difficult than for a normal away game. If you are the away team, it might be a good thing, as you wouldn't have to deal with the rabid fans in the home team's home stadium. However, for the home team, losing a home game to an international game would probably be a bad thing for the team. As such, I kept track of international home/away games. Subtler signs of favoritism can be seen in the schedule, too. For example, if you get fewer consecutive away games in a row, compared to an opponent, that is an advantage for you, as away games tire you out more and are harder more than home games are, so having consecutive away games in a row is harder than having them spread out between home games and/or byes. Two other subtle sign of favoritism that go hand in hand are whether you play teams coming off of byes and how much net rest you get over your opponent, which is a lot harder to figure out than any of the previous signs. For all of the others, you just have to look at the schedule and count it up for the team. For these, you have to go in to the opponent schedule, and look at the game before. Net rest is defined as the amount of days more/less that your team has to rest for the current game since their previous game than their opponent has had. You can do it per game, or calculate the total net rest for the season. For example, if you and your opponent both played on the same day the week before, than both teams net rest would be 0, since they have had the same number of days of rest since their previous games. However, if you were to have played on Sunday the week before, while your opponent played on Thursday Night the previous week, your net rest would be -3, while theirs would be +3, since they have had 3 more days of rest coming into the game than you have had. I looked at the Bills, and this is what I found: Bills Total Net Rest: +14 days over opponents /// +3 (Chargers), -1 (Raiders), +7 (Ravens, due to our bye), -1 (Jets), +3 (Patriots), +1 (Broncos), +2 (Dolphins) Sets of Away Games: 4 - (Rams, Raiders), (Vikings, Jets), (Patriots, Packers), (Broncos, Dolphins) Prime Time Games: 6 night games, 2 late afternoon games International Games: None I was honestly stunned by this. The 4 sets of away games was horrible, but also expected of the league to try to screw us over like that. The prime time games were fairly expected, due to how many we've received in the past few seasons, and how deep we get into the playoffs each year. It's been a couple years since we were screwed over in London against the Jags (where they had already been there for a week, having played another team there the previous week, then we had to come in and play them after they'd been there resting for a whole week, specifically so that the league could figure out how much of a disadvantage coming in against a team that had been there for a week already would put us at, while also giving up a home game to do so. That was also the game that Da'quan Jones and Matt Milano both had their careers basically derailed due to the horrible AstroTurf), thus, I was somewhat surprised we don't have an international game to play. But what really blew my mind was that we had +14 days of total net rest over opponents. This was a COMPLETE turn around over previous years, normally the league gives the Bills negative total net rest, and we're almost aways facing at least one opponent coming off of a bye, sometimes more. As far as I remember, this is the first time I've calculated the net rest for the Bills, and found that it came out to be positive, let alone in the double digits. All in all, our schedule is bad due to who we play, but that had nothing to do with the schedule itself, but instead was due to the rotation of which division faces which other two divisions. The sets of away games suck, there's no getting around that. But we have a good chance of winning some of the tight games, simply because we'll be more rested than the teams that we will be facing. For comparison, here are some other select teams that I spent the past couple hours writing up: Patriots Total Net Rest: +8 (1 week TBD) /// +4 (Steelers), +3 (Dolphins), -3 (Packers), +7 (Chargers, due to Patriots bye), -3 (Bills), +3 (Chiefs), -1 (Jets), -2 (Broncos) Sets of Away Games: 3 (Jags, Bills), (Bears, Dolphins), (Chiefs, Jets) Prime Time Games: 5 night games, 3 late afternoon games International Games: away game in Munich Chiefs Total Net Rest: -8 (1 week TBD) /// -1 (Colts), +7 (Chargers), -3 (Seahawks), -1 (Rams), -3 (Bengals), -3 (Patriots), -4 (49ers), Sets of Away Games: 3 (Dolphins, Raiders), (Seahawks, Broncos), (Bills, Rams, Bengals) Prime Time Games: 6 night games, 5 late afternoon games International Games: None Ravens Total Net Rest: -3 (1 week TBD) /// +1 (Falcons), -7 (Bengals, due to Bengals bye), -7 (Bills, due to Bills bye), +3 (Chargers), -1 (Panthers), -3 (Texans), Bye, +7 (Bucs, due to Ravens bye), +1 (Steelers), +3 (Steelers) Sets of Away Games: 2 (Falcons, Browns), (Panthers, Texans) Prime Time Games: 4 night games, 1 late afternoon games International Games: Away Game in Rio de Janiero Broncos Total Net Rest: +3 (1 week TBD) /// -1 (Jags), +1 (Rams), +3 (Cardinals), -3 (Panthers), +7 (Raiders, due to Broncos bye), +2 (Dolphins), -7 (Jets, due to Jets bye), -1 (Bills), +2 (Patriots) Sets of Away Games: 2 (49ers, Chargers), (Jets, Raiders) Prime Time Games: 4 night games, 9 late afternoon games International Games: None Texans Total Net Rest: +8 /// +7 (Chargers, due to Texans bye), 0, 0, +3 (Ravens), -2 (Steelers), 0, +1 (Jags), -1 (Eagles), +1 (Packers), -1 (Titans) Sets of Away Games: 4 (Titans, Jags), (Chargers, Browns), (Steelers, Commanders), (Eagles, Packers) Prime Time Games: 4 night games, 1 late afternoon game International Games: Away Game in London Bengals Total Net Rest: -4 (1 week TBD) /// , +7 (Ravens, due to Bengals bye), -7 (Steelers, due to Steelers bye), -3 (Commanders), -1 (Saints), -3 (Chiefs), +3 (Browns) Sets of Away Games: 2 (Texans, Steelers), (Panthers, Colts) Prime Time Games: 3 night games, 1 late afternoon games International Games: Away Game in Madrid One of the things that sort of surprised me (but not really) was that of all the AFC teams selected, who I considered most like to be favored and/or favorites to go to the playoffs and/or make a deep run, not ONE of them had a HOME international game. Some of them had away games, so they still get the benefit of the international game to their fanbase, and don't have to deal with a hometown crowd, but none of them had to give up a home game to do so. Quote
chris heff Posted May 15 Posted May 15 51 minutes ago, SirAndrew said: I agree, I’ve seen these debates get into conversations about income but I don’t care whether I have the money or not. Is it really wise to spend close to 1K on three hours of entertainment? The market charges what it can, but it’s amazing what people will pay. Kind of depends on the “entertainment”. Quote
eball Posted May 15 Posted May 15 10 hours ago, EmotionallyUnstable said: As if the holidays weren’t stressful enough, he’s a Bills game to work into the plans smh For an emotionally unstable guy like yourself, I can understand how this might cause a problem… 1 2 Quote
SCBills Posted May 15 Posted May 15 Earlier BYE week than most would want, but after Thanksgiving they have a mini-bye heading into New England. 10 days between games entering December is certainly helpful. Quote
Haplo848 Posted May 15 Posted May 15 15 minutes ago, Haplo848 said: Since we always knew WHO we were going to play, I'm not really going to focus too much on that. We've known we had a second place schedule. We've known we face the NFC North and AFC West, with the Rams on top of it. None of that is a surprise. It was always going to be a gauntlet no matter how it was arranged. There were never going to be many easy wins out of that schedule. So instead, when the schedule comes out, what I tend to focus on is what is actually new, and the obvious and subtle signs of favoritism in the league. The most obvious signs are, of course, who gets the prime time games. The obvious answer is "whatever teams are good." However, that doesn't tell the whole story. For example, the NFC East kept getting tons of prime time games, even when they were the worst division in football. It does have SOME relation to which teams are good, but it is far more likely to revolve around what teams would bring in the most viewers, which teams which would be the teams with the biggest fan bases AND the best teams, so that the league can make the most amount of money. For non-west coast teams, who don't normally start games at 4-4:30, the number of late afternoon games at those times can be a good indicator of favoritism, too, as you are still getting most of the national audience for those late games, as opposed to the 1 o'clock games, where you end up with nearly 10 games going on simultaneously, and the national audience is split. Sometimes, you can have only 1 or two games televised across the entire country at that time, making it basically a prime time game as well. One sign I'm not actually sure how to judge as favoritism or not is international games. I'm sure that the LEAGUE would view it as a good thing for the team to play in an international game, as it expands the fanbase. However, the team itself probably looks at it as a negative, as the travel is much more difficult than for a normal away game. If you are the away team, it might be a good thing, as you wouldn't have to deal with the rabid fans in the home team's home stadium. However, for the home team, losing a home game to an international game would probably be a bad thing for the team. As such, I kept track of international home/away games. Subtler signs of favoritism can be seen in the schedule, too. For example, if you get fewer consecutive away games in a row, compared to an opponent, that is an advantage for you, as away games tire you out more and are harder more than home games are, so having consecutive away games in a row is harder than having them spread out between home games and/or byes. Two other subtle sign of favoritism that go hand in hand are whether you play teams coming off of byes and how much net rest you get over your opponent, which is a lot harder to figure out than any of the previous signs. For all of the others, you just have to look at the schedule and count it up for the team. For these, you have to go in to the opponent schedule, and look at the game before. Net rest is defined as the amount of days more/less that your team has to rest for the current game since their previous game than their opponent has had. You can do it per game, or calculate the total net rest for the season. For example, if you and your opponent both played on the same day the week before, than both teams net rest would be 0, since they have had the same number of days of rest since their previous games. However, if you were to have played on Sunday the week before, while your opponent played on Thursday Night the previous week, your net rest would be -3, while theirs would be +3, since they have had 3 more days of rest coming into the game than you have had. I looked at the Bills, and this is what I found: Bills Total Net Rest: +14 days over opponents /// +3 (Chargers), -1 (Raiders), +7 (Ravens, due to our bye), -1 (Jets), +3 (Patriots), +1 (Broncos), +2 (Dolphins) Sets of Away Games: 4 - (Rams, Raiders), (Vikings, Jets), (Patriots, Packers), (Broncos, Dolphins) Prime Time Games: 6 night games, 2 late afternoon games International Games: None I was honestly stunned by this. The 4 sets of away games was horrible, but also expected of the league to try to screw us over like that. The prime time games were fairly expected, due to how many we've received in the past few seasons, and how deep we get into the playoffs each year. It's been a couple years since we were screwed over in London against the Jags (where they had already been there for a week, having played another team there the previous week, then we had to come in and play them after they'd been there resting for a whole week, specifically so that the league could figure out how much of a disadvantage coming in against a team that had been there for a week already would put us at, while also giving up a home game to do so. That was also the game that Da'quan Jones and Matt Milano both had their careers basically derailed due to the horrible AstroTurf), thus, I was somewhat surprised we don't have an international game to play. But what really blew my mind was that we had +14 days of total net rest over opponents. This was a COMPLETE turn around over previous years, normally the league gives the Bills negative total net rest, and we're almost aways facing at least one opponent coming off of a bye, sometimes more. As far as I remember, this is the first time I've calculated the net rest for the Bills, and found that it came out to be positive, let alone in the double digits. All in all, our schedule is bad due to who we play, but that had nothing to do with the schedule itself, but instead was due to the rotation of which division faces which other two divisions. The sets of away games suck, there's no getting around that. But we have a good chance of winning some of the tight games, simply because we'll be more rested than the teams that we will be facing. For comparison, here are some other select teams that I spent the past couple hours writing up: Patriots Total Net Rest: +8 (1 week TBD) /// +4 (Steelers), +3 (Dolphins), -3 (Packers), +7 (Chargers, due to Patriots bye), -3 (Bills), +3 (Chiefs), -1 (Jets), -2 (Broncos) Sets of Away Games: 3 (Jags, Bills), (Bears, Dolphins), (Chiefs, Jets) Prime Time Games: 5 night games, 3 late afternoon games International Games: away game in Munich Chiefs Total Net Rest: -8 (1 week TBD) /// -1 (Colts), +7 (Chargers), -3 (Seahawks), -1 (Rams), -3 (Bengals), -3 (Patriots), -4 (49ers), Sets of Away Games: 3 (Dolphins, Raiders), (Seahawks, Broncos), (Bills, Rams, Bengals) Prime Time Games: 6 night games, 5 late afternoon games International Games: None Ravens Total Net Rest: -3 (1 week TBD) /// +1 (Falcons), -7 (Bengals, due to Bengals bye), -7 (Bills, due to Bills bye), +3 (Chargers), -1 (Panthers), -3 (Texans), Bye, +7 (Bucs, due to Ravens bye), +1 (Steelers), +3 (Steelers) Sets of Away Games: 2 (Falcons, Browns), (Panthers, Texans) Prime Time Games: 4 night games, 1 late afternoon games International Games: Away Game in Rio de Janiero Broncos Total Net Rest: +3 (1 week TBD) /// -1 (Jags), +1 (Rams), +3 (Cardinals), -3 (Panthers), +7 (Raiders, due to Broncos bye), +2 (Dolphins), -7 (Jets, due to Jets bye), -1 (Bills), +2 (Patriots) Sets of Away Games: 2 (49ers, Chargers), (Jets, Raiders) Prime Time Games: 4 night games, 9 late afternoon games International Games: None Texans Total Net Rest: +8 /// +7 (Chargers, due to Texans bye), 0, 0, +3 (Ravens), -2 (Steelers), 0, +1 (Jags), -1 (Eagles), +1 (Packers), -1 (Titans) Sets of Away Games: 4 (Titans, Jags), (Chargers, Browns), (Steelers, Commanders), (Eagles, Packers) Prime Time Games: 4 night games, 1 late afternoon game International Games: Away Game in London Bengals Total Net Rest: -4 (1 week TBD) /// , +7 (Ravens, due to Bengals bye), -7 (Steelers, due to Steelers bye), -3 (Commanders), -1 (Saints), -3 (Chiefs), +3 (Browns) Sets of Away Games: 2 (Texans, Steelers), (Panthers, Colts) Prime Time Games: 3 night games, 1 late afternoon games International Games: Away Game in Madrid One of the things that sort of surprised me (but not really) was that of all the AFC teams selected, who I considered most like to be favored and/or favorites to go to the playoffs and/or make a deep run, not ONE of them had a HOME international game. Some of them had away games, so they still get the benefit of the international game to their fanbase, and don't have to deal with a hometown crowd, but none of them had to give up a home game to do so. One last thing I look for each week: when do we play in Miami. Is it early in the season during the day, when the temperature on the Bills side line has the potential to get into the 110s in the sun, while the Dolphins side line is in the shade, and 20-30 degrees cooler? Do we have another heatstroke game like we did a couple seasons ago when we went to Miami early in the season? Thankfully, no. We play Miami at home week 11, than away in week 17. Late games against Miami are always better than early games. Once again, the league has realized just how dangerous Miami can be early in the season for both players and fans, so they've put Miami on the road 4 of their first 6 games, including their first two games, and they have a week 6 bye. Before November, there are only two home games, but they're both at 1 o'clock, which is probably the worst time they could have put the games. They are week 3 against the Chiefs, and week 5 against the Bengals. I honestly don't have much of a probably with Mahomes having to deal with a heat stroke game... 1 Quote
Just Jack Posted May 15 Posted May 15 2 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said: They competition level in the NFL is not as much as people make out. Those teams at the bottom, more years then not are really not that far off than those that make the playoffs. Sure, there are exceptions every year, like teams such as the Cardinals, Dolphins and Jets appear to be looking at finishing poorly and taking a QB high next year. However for the most part it matters more on WHEN you play a team. What's their injury list like? How many days of rest did they have? Those are the real stories IMO The 2000 season when the Chargers went 1-15, six of those losses were by 3 points or less. So, while they looked bad on paper, they could have been average with an extra possession or two. 1 Quote
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