2023 NFL Opener

[Chandler#81]

Sunday at 1pm, please.

[entropyrules]

Agree with all the posters that Bills will not be a TV favorite and thats a good thing for them to enter the season under the radar. Lets face it a bunch of teams are going to make a splash in free agency and have their draft look real shiny and impressive while the Bills won't be able to make any signifcant free agent moves and their draft, due to being at the back end of each round, will look underwhelming. Perfect set-up to help them be the underdog when they face any of the playoff teams during the regular season.

[RiotAct]

2 hours ago, Cygnus99 said:

I have a feeling Cowboys and Bills on Turkey Day 

Nope.  Cowboys are always at home on Thanksgiving.

2 hours ago, Cygnus99 said:

I have a feeling Cowboys and Bills on Turkey Day 

Nope.  Cowboys are always at home on Thanksgiving.

[Southern_Bills]

10 hours ago, Mark Vader said:

And if the Eagles win?

 

If the Eagles win I could see Cowboys/Eagles

[ControllerOfPlanetX]

Don’t underestimate the lure of Sean Payton…Broncos at Chiefs..….

 

else…Jerry loves the spotlight..Cowboys at Eagles.

 

[IndyMark]

Ditto the above.  The shine is off the Bills, particularly with how that last game looked on TV for the rest of the country. 

 

We should be grateful.  Minimal prime time, more 1 pm-ers.......no issue with that.  Bills are better chasing than being chased. 

[Franco_92]

4 hours ago, BillsPride12 said:

I don't see it happening...Buffalo is going to lose a bit of it's National Luster next season and I'm more than ok with it.

I doubt it. The Bills bring viewers in huge numbers. Peyton Manning was on prime time all of the time even though he spent years being unable to get out of the wild card round (he, Brees, and Rodgers did not play in a single divisional round game before age 27, Josh has been there 3 times and is 26)

Edited February 4, 2023 by arcane

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

No. We are probably going to fall out of favor a little here with the flash games

[First Round Bust]

yeah we are all a bit burnt on recent high volume of prime time games, but one remains unplayed...besides the playoffs...the relatively new Thansgiving nite game reamins unconquered, I submit we can/should/would play that as a home game as we did Dallas and Detroit on the road consecutively..dont really care about the opponent but a divisional rival or maybe the Broncs or NYG...perhaps we play Jax in London ?

 

https://www.buffalobills.com/schedule/future-opponents

[uticaclub]

Unfortunately, the days of multiple prime-time games are gone. I loved the excitement, respect and attention around the night games after decades of neglect. We aren't going to be an “under the radar” team, everyone knows what we are about. A team can stop Allen or they can't, Allen plays perfectly or he doesn’t, that's how the Bills or lose and the nation is bored of it.

23 minutes ago, arcane said:

I doubt it. The Bills bring viewers in huge numbers. Peyton Manning was on prime time all of the time even though he spent years being unable to get out of the wild card round (he, Brees, and Rodgers did not play in a single divisional round game before age 27, Josh has been there 3 times and is 26)

Because they had the Bye

Edited February 4, 2023 by uticaclub

[TFBillsfan]

Agree that the odds are low the Bills kick off the NFL season again but the Bills schedule is just too juicy to not have numerous prime time games. 

 

Philly

Dallas

Cinncy

KC

 

These are at minimum 4:00 games but none will be 1:00 games. Most likely SNF or MNF. 
 

Add in our overseas game plus TNF and I would still wager the Bills will play in six prime time games. 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

5 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

I'll bet you a thousand dollars and give you 100 to 1 odds that won't happen,

"Bet...Bet...BET...BET! BET! BET!"

[Franco_92]

25 minutes ago, uticaclub said:

Unfortunately, the days of multiple prime-time games are gone. I loved the excitement, respect and attention around the night games after decades of neglect. We aren't going to be an “under the radar” team, everyone knows what we are about. A team can stop Allen or they can't, Allen plays perfectly or he doesn’t, that's how the Bills or lose and the nation is bored of it.

Because they had the Bye

If the nation is bored of it, why do all the viewership numbers say the exact opposite?

 

And what are you talking about? The bye would have taken those players directly TO the divisional round. But none of those 3 ever PLAYED in a division round game until 27 years old. Which Josh has done 3x at age 26. Yet they were still always on national television. You people are delusional, the Bills will get plenty of prime time games 

Edited February 4, 2023 by arcane

[uticaclub]

30 minutes ago, arcane said:

If the nation is bored of it, why do all the viewership numbers say the exact opposite?

 

And what are you talking about? The bye would have taken those players directly TO the divisional round. But none of those 3 ever PLAYED in a division round game until 27 years old. Which Josh has done 3x at age 26. Yet they were still always on national television. You people are delusional, the Bills will get plenty of prime time games 

The 1999 Colts were  the 2 seed and played in the divisional round in Peytons 2nd year, so I didnt bother to fact-check the others. We are no longer the flavor of the month, for good or bad, I just feel like we hit our peak and sliding back into irrelevance 

Edited February 4, 2023 by uticaclub

[ohboychoboy]

19 minutes ago, arcane said:

If the nation is bored of it, why do all the viewership numbers say the exact opposite?

 

And what are you talking about? The bye would have taken those players directly TO the divisional round. But none of those 3 ever PLAYED in a division round game until 27 years old. Which Josh has done 3x at age 26. Yet they were still always on national television. You people are delusional, the Bills will get plenty of prime time games 

 

I'm with you.  There's no way the networks turn a blind eye to a 13-3 season (which was bested by only 2 teams, despite us playing 1 less game than the rest of the league) and the Bills traditionally high TV ratings just because of a single poor showing against the Bengals.  Trust me, the NFL could care less that Bills fans hate their defensive coordinator or think that if we only used Nyheim Hines more we'd be hoisting a decades worth of Lombardi Trophies.   While CBS and/or Fox will be licking their chops to televise Bills-Cowboy or Bill-Chiefs or Bills-Eagles or Bills-Bengals on Sunday at 4 o'clock, there's no way they're keeping all 4 of those games off Sunday or Monday night or even Thursday.  Like it or not, the Bills are one of the most entertaining teams in football with one of the most, if not THE most, passionate fan bases in the country, so they'll have plenty of opportunities in the spotlight.

[Kwai San]

6 hours ago, Cygnus99 said:

I have a feeling Cowboys and Bills on Turkey Day 

 

I have a feeling you are 110% wrong.

[Franco_92]

1 hour ago, uticaclub said:

The 1999 Colts were  the 2 seed and played in the divisional round in Peytons 2nd year, so I didnt bother to fact-check the others. We are no longer the flavor of the month, for good or bad, I just feel like we hit our peak and sliding back into irrelevance 

I must have switched Peyton with a different elite qb in my head. 3 of the faces of the nfl in that era  did not play in the division round before age 27

 

Just because you have reached some mental state of frustration with your team does not mean that the nfl will decide to keep them off of networks when they tend to set new bars for viewership in various time slots every time they play lol. They might not get the full slate, but are you telling me that nfl fans would prefer a randomized matchup to bills vs bengals/chiefs/eagles/cowboys whenever those games fall? There are what, 50 prime time games every year? 

 

Edit: after looking into it, the stat is: Brees and Rodgers were 27 before seeing the divisional round and manning was 27 before ADVANCING in the playoffs for the first time. I conflated some things but the point remains, Josh is not some tired has-been in the eyes of the league or fans lol

Edited February 4, 2023 by arcane

[BillsPride12]

2 hours ago, arcane said:

I doubt it. The Bills bring viewers in huge numbers. Peyton Manning was on prime time all of the time even though he spent years being unable to get out of the wild card round (he, Brees, and Rodgers did not play in a single divisional round game before age 27, Josh has been there 3 times and is 26)

I mean they will still get some Primetime games but it won't be on the level it was last year and seeing as they were on opening night this season I just can't see them getting that slot again next year.

[97bills]

7 hours ago, BillsPride12 said:

I don't see it happening...Buffalo is going to lose a bit of it's National Luster next season and I'm more than ok with it.

I hope they do to… but I think when you have Allen and this team won 14 games last year, there still going to be plenty of hype!!! Not like last year but still there… 

[78thealltimegreat]

I can’t see the Bills being it 2 years in a row. KC Buffalo will be saved by CBS as one of the games they reserve for the year. 
Eagles Bills will be one of the games fox reserves for Brady. 
My money is on KC/Denver or Philly/ San Francisco rematch 

Edited February 4, 2023 by 78thealltimegreat