Bills to face difficult road schedule
By Bud L. Ellis
Getting back to .500 and contending for a playoff berth will not be an easy task for the Buffalo Bills in 2010.
The Bills will take on playoff teams in six of their eight playoff games this upcoming season. The National Football League has released the list of home games and road games for Chan Gailey’s first season at the helm as head coach; dates and times will be announced later.
The Bills will face both conference runners-up in 2010, and both will be on the road– the New York Jets and the Minnesota Vikings. The Bills also hit the road to take on AFC East champion New England, AFC North champ Cincinnati, and playoff qualifiers Green Bay and Baltimore. The combined 2009 record of those six teams: 61-35.
Buffalo’s other two road games are at Miami and at Kansas City. Of the eight road opponents, seven finished last season with seven or more wins.
Both the Patriots and the Jets will visit Ralph Wilson Stadium, but the home schedule definitely is softer that the road slate. Half of the Bills’ home games are against teams that finished under .500 last season – Miami, Jacksonville, Detroit and Cleveland. The other two home games are against teams that just missed the playoffs: Pittsburgh and Chicago.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 10:38 pm by Bud · No Comments
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