Bills 2025 Schedule Early Thoughts

[RiotAct]

  On 3/6/2025 at 3:32 PM, sullim4 said:

 

You wish - these will end up in the BFLO store for $99 per piece.  Perhaps alongside the seats and a very limited number of troughs from the men's rooms!

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I’d buy it.

[chongli]

  On 3/6/2025 at 3:23 PM, corta765 said:

 

My point is if you want a primetime game at night the only way to guarantee that is week 17. Week 18 the NFL intentionally leaves all the games TBD so they can setup week 18 with the best matchups later. Buffalo can be home week 18 but if the game doesn't matter it will be at 1pm in a smaller window game.

 

I know for Bills fans closing out the stadium is a big deal, but nationally it will not be as big compared to a game that has playoff or seeding implications.

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It doesn't have to be at night or even national. As I said upthread, Week 17 Saturday national TV works for me, just like Pittsburgh at home 2000 on Saturday to close out Three Rivers.

[Mike in Horseheads]

  On 3/6/2025 at 1:12 PM, PromoTheRobot said:

The last game at Highmark/Ralph Wilson/Rich Stadium will be a national game.

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Ya for got the short lived New Era

[Beast]

  On 3/6/2025 at 4:52 PM, Mike in Horseheads said:

Ya for got the short lived New Era

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Wasn’t it named Bills Stadium for a year as well? This old brain can’t remember but that sounds right.

[SydneyBillsFan]

  On 3/6/2025 at 12:03 AM, boyst said:

If this bills don't go abroad in '25 they definitely will in '26.

 

Let's hope it's Canada.

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it may not be abroad by then

[Fleezoid]

  On 3/6/2025 at 5:31 AM, sullim4 said:

A few thoughts.

 

CBS has fought tooth and nail to keep Chiefs/Bills each year.  So much so that it is at the top of the list of games they want to keep the past few years, and as a result, they sacrificed some terrible doubleheader slates late in the season with the more desirable AFC games going to NBC and ESPN.  I just think the other three networks would rather feature big market NFC teams like Philadelphia or the Rams.  I could be wrong, but I think CBS gets this one again sometime in late October or early November, especially since 4:25 standalone games draw a ton of eyes.  It is similar to the 90s when CBS and then FOX always got the Cowboys and 49ers in the late window.

 

I agree that Miami finishing the season in Orchard Park is the most appropriate way to finish out regular season games at Rich Stadium.  I suspect the Bills will request this if they can and I don't see why the NFL wouldn't grant it if they can make it work.  I think the chances are high that they will be at home in Week 18 regardless of whether it is Miami, New England*, or the Jets.

 

PHI/BUF has 4:25 FOX written all over it.  FOX hasn't gotten an A-list Bills game recently... they got the Rams and Seahawks last season but neither of those teams is a top 5 opponent.  It feels like FOX is due to get one and this one specifically makes a ton of sense.

 

Baltimore, Cincinnati, Tampa Bay, and Pittsburgh feel like candidates for SNF and MNF.  I think we get someone like the Jets on TNF this year.

 

One of the middling NFC games, maybe the Carolina or New Orleans ones - will be eligible for a Saturday flex to NFL Network in December.  It seems like this happens a lot to us.

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I think all of this is a really good take.  I will say, I like Jim Nantz a lot, but Chiefs and Bills with Tony Romo is getting really, really old. We've seen that movie several times, and when I think of it now, it gives me the bitter beer face. 

[corta765]

  On 3/6/2025 at 8:30 PM, Fleezoid said:

 

I think all of this is a really good take.  I will say, I like Jim Nantz a lot, but Chiefs and Bills with Tony Romo is getting really, really old. We've seen that movie several times, and when I think of it now, it gives me the bitter beer face. 

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I think the NFL relents letting CBS have the golden goose for so long. Remember SNF got Bills in 21, technically Bills Chiefs in 2020 was TNF, only MNF has not got the Bills yet.

[DrBob806]

I'm calling a Bills @ Browns for a Thursday night game

[Just Jack]

  On 3/6/2025 at 3:27 PM, RiotAct said:

and then fans are graciously allowed onto the field to tear down the goalposts and remove chunks of the artificial turf to take back to their man caves!!!

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But they will need the field and goalposts for the playoff games.   

[Comebackkid]

  On 3/5/2025 at 10:23 PM, Coach Tuesday said:

Someone posted on good authority that we are not going to Ireland.

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i know im not

[chongli]

  On 3/6/2025 at 9:25 PM, corta765 said:

 

I think the NFL relents letting CBS have the golden goose for so long. Remember SNF got Bills in 21, technically Bills Chiefs in 2020 was TNF, only MNF has not got the Bills yet.

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And the only broadcast partner not having gotten the game, other than ESPN, has been Amazon, which started broadcasting in 2022.(FOX/NFL Network had the TNF package in 2020 and showed the game Monday due to COVID). 

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[corta765]

  On 3/6/2025 at 9:31 PM, DrBob806 said:

I'm calling a Bills @ Browns for a Thursday night game

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Not impossible but CLE needs to draft a new QB then because there is not much of a draw at this time.

[DrBob806]

  On 3/7/2025 at 2:27 PM, corta765 said:

Not impossible but CLE needs to draft a new QB then because there is not much of a draw at this time.

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I think every team gets at least a Thurs night game. 

[corta765]

  On 3/7/2025 at 8:09 PM, DrBob806 said:

I think every team gets at least a Thurs night game. 

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Nope. NFL killed that rule and some teams get no night games at all. I believe year 2 of Dan Campbell and the Lions they initially had no night games until winning their way into week 18 appearance on SNF v GB. They did get Thanksgiving, but teams do go without primetime now which honestly is for the best. Panthers last year also had no night games although they did get one game overseas and 5x 4pm games.

 

Although there was something magical about the TEN v JAX yearly TNF game lol

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[Gregg]

  On 3/6/2025 at 9:31 PM, DrBob806 said:

I'm calling a Bills @ Browns for a Thursday night game

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This game will be one of the few 1:00 games the Bills will play next year. With that home schedule I expect many night games as well as 4:25 starts. The Bills will get a primetime game or two on the road as well.