When you look at the 2025 schedule for the Buffalo Bills, there is a lot to be excited about. Five primetime games (three at home), they open up their season with the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday Night Football, and end the regular season at home the last two weeks against the Eagles and Jets. Overall, it’s a very-well spread out schedule in a season where the Bills are playing their last season in their current stadium.
However, this is no such thing as a perfect schedule. If there were, it would probably be because the team itself got to hand pick their opponents, game locations, and times, and that will never happen.
While the Bills do have themselves a favorable schedule, there is always one factor that teams and fans overlook that ultimately screws them over. That factor is taking on an opponent who is coming off a bye week.
The bye week is very crucial for rest and getting extra time to prepare for an opponent. The Bills will have that advantage going into Week 8 when they take on the Carolina Panthers, as Buffalo has a bye in Week 7. However, the Bills have been given a huge disadvantage against the Patriots in Week 15 in Foxborough.
Patriots will face Bills in Week 15 after Week 14 bye
Giving this advantage royally hurts the Bills seeing as how New England will get the chance to rest up and have extra time to prepare for Josh Allen. Not to mention, it’s happening in December when the playoff race is going a million miles a minute and both of these teams could be in the mix of it.
In addition to the Patriots getting this advantage against the Bills, the Atlanta Falcons will also have this type of advantage heading into a Week 6 primetime matchup against Buffalo. The Falcons will have their bye week in Week 5, giving them an extra week of preparation for the Bills.