During the latest episode of\u00a0The Bill Simmons Podcast<\/a>, the Sports Guy unleashed a conspiracy that the NFL may have intentionally crafted a cake schedule for the Bills this season. As a result, Simmons projected Josh Allen and the boys to nab the 1-seed in the AFC and finish with an even better record than last season.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s too hard for me to get out of this seat and put the Conspiracy Bill outfit, (but) it felt like the league stacked 2025 for Buffalo a little bit,\u201d Simmons explained. \u201cHome games: Baltimore, KC, Philly, Cincy and Tampa. All of them home. Road games, they\u2019re playing five bad 2024 teams plus Atlanta, they\u2019re at Houston and they\u2019re at Pittsburgh \u2026 they might not play an above-.500 team on the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It was just a couple weeks ago that Simmons controversially named Allen the top quarterback in the NFL, and now he is doubling down on his Buffalo love. That love, however, is not just based on his own analysis but a belief that the league is stacking things in Buffalo\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n
It is hard to argue with the schedule. The Bills have gone on the road three of the past four seasons for their annual tilt with the Chiefs. This year, they are not only home for that game but also home against the Ravens after traveling to Baltimore early last season.<\/p>\n
The NFL doesn\u2019t need a Buffalo Super Bowl to pay the bills by any means. Several contending teams are probably bigger national draws. But when we see someone like Joe Burrow campaigning publicly for a more balanced Bengals schedule, Simmons can\u2019t be the only one wondering whether the Bills lobbied behind the scenes and were dealt a better hand in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills have been on the precipice of their first NFL championship for a half-decade now, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[11562,215,214,53,2086,7,6,25225],"class_list":{"0":"post-325191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bill-simmons","9":"tag-bills","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-buffalobills","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-the-bill-simmons-podcast"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115109045953520182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}