That means the Buffalo Bills would open the season by playing, in an unknown order as of right now, at home against the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams, and on the road against the San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals. By doing this, if the league did have to cancel the first four weeks, it would still allow for every team to have six divisional and 12 total conference games remaining. Therefore, no team would have a competitive advantage and the schedule would remain balanced when it came to determining playoff teams in each conference.
Clayton went on to say that Weeks 5 and 6 would be the non-common intraconference games. Those are the conference games that were determined based on order of finish the previous season. For the Bills, those games are home against the Pittsburgh Steelers and at the Tennessee Titans.
“Then you’ll get the division games for about three weeks,” Clayton said. So that’s the New England Patriots, New York Jets, and Miami Dolphins for the Bills, either home or away for each.
The next four games would be the cross-over divisional games win the conference. The AFC East plays the AFC West this year, so for the Bills that would be hosting the Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers and traveling to the Las Vegas Raiders and Denver Broncos.
The final three games would all be AFC East matchups again to end the season.
“That, I think, is going to be the premise of how they do it,” Clayton said. “I think they’ll set it up in two ways. One that they’ll start the season in September, have the Super Bowl Feb. 8, and then the next one in mid-October, with the Super Bowl on Feb. 28 with no bye weeks.”
The assumption here is that Clayton meant to say Feb. 7, not 8, which is the actual scheduled date of Super Bowl LV in Tampa.
Ok Bills fans. So let’s assume it will be AFC/NFC weeks 1-4. We know who and where the Bills would play, but what order do you want to see these games?Seahawks at BillsRams at BillsBills at 49ersBills at Cardinals
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