Every first-place schedule looks like a tough slate on paper. That’s why it’s a first place schedule.
But as fans begin to dissect the 2024 Buffalo Bills schedule fresh off the team’s fourth-straight AFC East divisional title, one particular stretch stands out as a fulcrum for the season: a cadence of games that you come out of feeling a particular way about both the progress of your favorite team thus far and a potential omen of things to come for the remainder of the year.
For the Bills, that stretch very well may be Weeks 3 through 6, where the Bills face projected AFC playoff contenders four weeks in a row with multiple primetime games, short weeks.