Bills only AFCE Team not to request back to back west coast games

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

19 minutes ago, chris heff said:

Not to mention that their experience flying on a private jet is significantly better than flying commercial..

 

Private?  You mean chartered right?

 

Not all owner have a private plane for players like Rub and Tug Kraft 

 

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

Seth Walder ESPN Analytics 

Each AFC team's schedule broken down by: total miles traveled, net rest differential relative to their opponents, and how many back to back road games they have.
 

https://www.espn.com/blog/buffalo-bills/post/_/id/34587/buffalo-bills-schedule-2020-young-team-will-be-tested-in-prime-time
 

^   Buffalo Bills' schedule 2020: Young team will be tested in prime time  

[MJS]

I imagine it's more disruptive to move operations for a whole week and not have access to all of the facilities you normally do.

[djp14150]

On 5/11/2020 at 8:19 PM, Buffalo Timmy said:

When I traveled to the west coast going that way was much easier than coming home. Pushing my schedule back 3 hours was simply going to bed a little later one night,coming back was 3 days of moving the bed time an hour each day. So for Bills going West each time is not as bad.

 

 

In baseball all they always are off even they travrl 3 time zones from west to east because of body clock being out of whack for games.

 

since football isn’t a night game traveling is easier where you can keep your team on the same body clock  there would be problems if east coast games started at 9am or west coast games at 10pm locally.

 

 

[papazoid]

Rams are apparently a little irritated by one part of the Patriots' 2020 schedule

 

In Week 13, the Patriots will be traveling to Los Angeles to face the Chargers, which means they won't have to travel anywhere to face the Rams, because they'll already be in Los Angeles. On the other hand, the Rams have to travel to Arizona in Week 14, which means they have to get on a plane on Sunday night, which is something the Patriots won't have to do. 

 

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-are-apparently-a-little-irritated-by-one-part-of-the-patriots-2020-schedule/

[GaryPinC]

On 5/13/2020 at 8:58 AM, papazoid said:

Rams are apparently a little irritated by one part of the Patriots' 2020 schedule

 

In Week 13, the Patriots will be traveling to Los Angeles to face the Chargers, which means they won't have to travel anywhere to face the Rams, because they'll already be in Los Angeles. On the other hand, the Rams have to travel to Arizona in Week 14, which means they have to get on a plane on Sunday night, which is something the Patriots won't have to do. 

 

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-are-apparently-a-little-irritated-by-one-part-of-the-patriots-2020-schedule/

Wow, what a whiny "B"  McVay is.  To clarify, the Rams play the Cards week 13 (12/6) and have to suffer the 90 minute flight home Sunday night to LA then square off with the Pats on 12/10.

 

WRT west coast games, I'm of the mind that ya fly there Saturday, try to keep your EST bedtime, play, then fly back probably Monday morning.   Though I don't suffer jet lag much on the times I've flown West so I'm not a good judge of what's best.

[MJS]

I think our schedule couldn't have worked out any better, so I'm glad they didn't request anything like that.

[Saxum]

1 hour ago, GaryPinC said:

Wow, what a whiny "B"  McVay is.  To clarify, the Rams play the Cards week 13 (12/6) and have to suffer the 90 minute flight home Sunday night to LA then square off with the Pats on 12/10.

 

He is not whiny - He is the "T*m Br*dy" brandy of competitiveness I have been told.

And with airport checks, etc it is probably as fast to drive.  I have driven it from game before.

[sherpa]

18 minutes ago, Limeaid said:

 

He is not whiny - He is the "T*m Br*dy" brandy of competitiveness I have been told.

And with airport checks, etc it is probably as fast to drive.  I have driven it from game before.

 

Its less than a one hour flight, and an NFL charter, which is quite different.

Driving it, compared to what they do, is not comparable.

2 hours ago, GaryPinC said:

 

WRT west coast games, I'm of the mind that ya fly there Saturday, try to keep your EST bedtime, play, then fly back probably Monday morning.   Though I don't suffer jet lag much on the times I've flown West so I'm not a good judge of what's best.

 

They don't fly back Monday.

They fly about 2.5 to 3 hours after the end of the game.

Edited May 14, 2020 by sherpa

[HardyBoy]

On 5/12/2020 at 8:47 PM, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:

Seth Walder ESPN Analytics 

Each AFC team's schedule broken down by: total miles traveled, net rest differential relative to their opponents, and how many back to back road games they have.
 

https://www.espn.com/blog/buffalo-bills/post/_/id/34587/buffalo-bills-schedule-2020-young-team-will-be-tested-in-prime-time
 

^   Buffalo Bills' schedule 2020: Young team will be tested in prime time  

 

I think this has as much to do with the analytics on what is better for those individual games as it does for ensuring you get a more likely chance at as nice a schedule as possible.

 

Not being difficult with specific needs makes it a heck of a lot more likely that you get fewer teams coming off byes, etc. Their goal is to balance all that stuff out when they build the schedule...start adding stipulations and it's such a complicated thing that you start having to play multiple teams off byes potentially to accomodate the other stuff...i mean that's an assumption, but I'll stand by it big time.