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When the NFL released its 2022 regular-season schedule back in May, the Buffalo Bills were handed one of the most difficult six-game stretches to open a season—on paper—that the team has ever had. That six-game stretch included:
- A season-opening Thursday road contest against the defending Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams
- A home-opening Monday Night Football matchup against the top seed in the 2021 AFC playoffs, the Tennessee Titans
- An early season road game against an improved Miami Dolphins team; Miami Gardens is almost always an issue from a weather standpoint before November
- A road contest against a perennial playoff contender, the Baltimore Ravens, featuring an MVP candidate at quarterback in Lamar Jackson
- A home date with Mike Tomlin’s Pittsburgh Steelers who, despite being in transition, have never finished below .500 on his watch
- A road trip to Arrowhead Stadium to play the rivals that bounced them from the last two postseasons, the Kansas City Chiefs
Buffalo hits its bye week having run that gamut, and they’re situated about as well as anyone could have reasonably hoped for: they’re 5-1, alone atop the AFC standings and leading the league with a plus-95 point differential, 39 more points than the next-highest team in that column, the undefeated Philadelphia Eagles.