Are the odds joshing us? Bills favored in every game this year

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Get utilized to seeing the Buffalo Bills connected galore antithetic screens aboriginal this year.

The squad was selected to appear connected "Hard Knocks" during grooming campy for the archetypal clip successful franchise past aft the rules were changed this offseason, allowing teams that person been successful the playoffs the past 2 seasons to beryllium selected arsenic the show's subject.

A Hallmark Channel romance movie is presently being filmed that centers astir the team and the Western New York community.

Then there's the on-field broadside of things with the Bills acceptable to look successful premier clip for 4 of their archetypal six games.

On apical of each that, the likelihood are successful the Bills favor. Quite literally. While the numbers are taxable to alteration arsenic the play nears, ESPN BET Sportsbook has the Bills favored successful each of their 17 games for the 2025 season, the lone squad to beryllium successful specified a position. Twenty-three teams, since 1978, were favored to beryllium favorites successful each regular-season game.

The squad went defense-heavy successful the draft, an country that was successful request of betterment aft past season. Meanwhile, determination is endowment crossed the roster, including an violative enactment that allowed the fewest sacks successful the league past year, emerging players similar wide receiver Khalil Shakir, and of people reigning MVP backmost Josh Allen. The Bills being favored successful each crippled this twelvemonth is an indicator of wherever this radical is going into 2025 and the expectations they face, portion the enactment successful caller years has led to this benignant of play with important challenges inactive to face.

The team's on-field enactment information of OTAs is scheduled to get underway connected Tuesday. It provides a archetypal look of however the 2025 Bills volition statesman to mesh unneurotic earlier grooming campy kicks disconnected successful precocious July.

The Bills spent the offseason prioritizing gathering astir players that the squad drafted with respective re-signings and reunions, arsenic good arsenic adding the likes of borderline rusher Joey Bosa and wide receiver Joshua Palmer successful escaped agency.

Some of the imaginable for this roster volition necessitate precocious draught picks from caller years taking a measurement forward. That not lone includes the players being extended, specified arsenic linebacker Terrel Bernard, but besides notably third-year choky extremity Dalton Kincaid (2023 first-round pick) and second-year wide receiver Keon Coleman (33rd wide prime successful 2024). Both Kincaid and Coleman dealt with injuries successful 2024 but are acceptable to beryllium cardinal pieces of the discourtesy this season.

The beardown content successful this Bills squad from the oddsmakers is successful stark opposition to the question marks that lingered past offseason aft the Bills moved connected from a assortment of seasoned leaders, starring the mode to the re-signings that highlighted this offseason. Last offseason, the squad faced unknowns with 2 caller full-time coordinators, a revamped wide receiver country and caller starters connected defense. The Bills went connected to triumph the part astatine the opening of December, portion the offense acceptable historical marks. When it comes to important changes this offseason, determination were few: A caller peculiar teams manager (Chris Tabor), and the Bills promoted Will Greenberg to caput spot and conditioning coach.

There is, of course, much to the plaything successful likelihood than conscionable the talented Bills roster. Significant caller occurrence against a weaker part helps -- the Bills are coming disconnected a 5th consecutive AFC East title. The Bills besides person the ninth-easiest docket (0.467 spot of schedule) and are playing opponents with the champion records past play astatine location (Baltimore Ravens, Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles).

Buffalo's docket besides includes 4 of their archetypal 5 games astatine home. One of those games that could alteration their winning likelihood arsenic the play gets person is the Week 1 opener connected "Sunday Night Football." The Bills big the Ravens, who articulation the Chiefs arsenic teams favored successful each but their games astatine the Bills successful the opening lines. The crippled volition beryllium the archetypal Week 1 matchup since the 1970 merger to diagnostic the apical 2 finishers successful the NFL MVP voting from the erstwhile season, per Elias Sports Bureau. It besides marks the archetypal clip the Bills person opened a play with a location prime-time crippled since 2000 (Tennessee Titans).

There are galore starting positions locked successful heading into offseason work, but those to support an oculus connected are wide receiver for the last roster spots -- a presumption that the squad continues to tinker with adding Elijah Moore and Kendall Wilkerson aft the draught -- extracurricular cornerback, information and on the antiaircraft line. Questions stay astatine the cornerback No. 2 spot with Tre'Davious White returning and the squad drafting Maxwell Hairston successful the archetypal circular of this year's draft.

The occurrence of past twelvemonth gives the squad plentifulness to physique disconnected earlier the squad hits the biggest of stages. While the expectations person been acceptable highly from the commencement via the oddsmakers, the team's ain enactment and extremity are to scope what has been elusive successful the archetypal Super Bowl title.

"There's a batch of teams that are connected the extracurricular looking successful and saying, 'Hey, I privation we were the Bills' to prolong the occurrence we've had," manager Sean McDermott said astatine the NFL owners meetings.

"The situation that remains for america is to go the champion successful the world. And we aftermath up each time trying to bash that. How galore radical successful the satellite bash that? I don't know, but we bash and so, that's my work to our fans, that's our work to our fans, is to aftermath up with that benignant of attitude, that benignant of mindset."