{"id":37192,"date":"2025-05-09T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/37192\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:50:09","slug":"buffalo-bills-schedule-release-christmas-black-friday-international-games-and-prime-time-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/37192\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills schedule release: Christmas, Black Friday, international games and prime-time opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025 NFL schedule release is approaching fast, and as always, Buffalo Bills<\/a> fans have certain things they want. <\/p>\n

What are you rooting for in this year\u2019s schedule? Is there a specific road trip you\u2019re hoping to make and you want it on a certain date? Do you love prime-time games? Are you hoping the Bills don\u2019t play on Christmas? Here are some topics but share yours in the comments section below. <\/p>\n

Sign up for your own account here to leave a comment<\/a> <\/p>\n

Before we get to the topics for you to weigh in on, here are the home and away games: <\/p>\n

Bills\u2019 2025 home games<\/p>\n

Bills\u2019 2025 away games<\/p>\n

Buffalo Bills holiday games<\/p>\n

The Bills aren\u2019t going to play Philadelphia on NFL\u2019s Opening Night because they\u2019ll want Philly at home, so we can scratch that idea. <\/p>\n

The Bills have played on Thanksgiving a lot in recent years, but I can\u2019t completely rule it out, especially since the NFL could want Buffalo on consecutive Thursday nights. <\/p>\n

Black Friday and Christmas are the two I\u2019m circling for the Bills. Last year, the Chiefs occupied spots in both games and I think it\u2019s Buffalo\u2019s turn. That stinks, because I don\u2019t want Buffalo on Christmas, but I do think it\u2019s going to happen in 2025. Black Friday is also a nice day for relaxing, so watching the Bills isn\u2019t what I\u2019d prefer.<\/p>\n

Buffalo Bills prime-time games<\/p>\n

With games against both Super Bowl<\/a> participants, a rematch between MVP front-runners Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen, and the Bengals lurking, the home schedule is nuts and there are going to be home prime-time games for the Bills alongside home nationally televised 4:25 games on CBS. <\/p>\n

The Steelers game is the only one I see in prime time on the away schedule. <\/p>\n

I watch most of the prime-time games anyway, so this topic isn\u2019t high on my list. <\/p>\n

Buffalo Bills international games<\/p>\n

Buffalo plays at four potential international NFL hosts in 2025: Dolphins (Madrid), Steelers (Dublin), Browns (London), and Jets (London). <\/p>\n

The NFL hasn\u2019t put a divisional game overseas since 2019, so I think it\u2019s really unlikely Buffalo plays Miami in Spain and mostly unlikely Buffalo plays at the Jets in London. While not exclusive, they\u2019ve tended to favor inter-conference matchups, but none of those are on here. Likewise, the Bills were in London in 2023, so there are plenty of teams higher on the pecking order. <\/p>\n

While I\u2019d love to see the Bills in the first Ireland game for selfish reasons, I\u2019m not thinking this is going to be a thing. If it is, breakfast with the Bills is fine with me. <\/p>\n

Bills road trips in 2025<\/p>\n

Most Bills fans want the Miami game in December or January to escape the cold winter. Add Carolina to the list, as a bunch of ex-pats live around Charlotte. Same with Houston to a lesser degree. <\/p>\n

If I\u2019m a Bills fan who traveled, I\u2019d be circling the Falcons game because we don\u2019t go there often and Atlanta is a cool city. So I am hoping they can put that one in October or early December to avoid the holidays.<\/p>\n

For a while, Buffalo was in New England between Christmas and New Years quite often, and Boston and New England are great to visit in the fall. They played in October in 2023, but the last time before that where it wasn\u2019t December or January was 2016. <\/p>\n

Bills rest deficit in 2025<\/p>\n

What I am most looking at on the schedule is rest deficit: When do the Bills have more rest than their opponent and when do they have less? <\/p>\n

Facing the Chiefs, Bengals, or Ravens on a short week for only the Bills would be tough. Getting a bye before playing those teams would be great. <\/p>\n

Then not wanting to play the Steelers or Eagles right before those three AFC powerhouses is next on the list. Don\u2019t want to be busted up heading into the rematch with KC. <\/p>\n

Hit up the comments section right now to share your thoughts. What schedule release opinions do you have heading into the weekend? <\/p>\n

Head to the comments to share your thoughts. Sign up for your own account here to leave a comment<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Welcome to the weekend, Buffalo Bills<\/a> fans. After a long week, it\u2019s time to blow off a little steam. Use this thread to talk about… well, whatever it is you\u2019d like to talk about. Maybe you\u2019d like to share a cool story from your week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 NFL schedule release is approaching fast, and as always, Buffalo Bills fans have certain things they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[357,215,2491,214,53,4424,13908,2086,711,1872,7,917,29,774,5107,6,7756,8410,1590,5432,1621,8403,149],"class_list":{"0":"post-37192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-and","9":"tag-bills","10":"tag-black","11":"tag-buffalo","12":"tag-buffalo-bills","13":"tag-buffalo-bills-discussion","14":"tag-buffalo-bills-schedule","15":"tag-buffalobills","16":"tag-category-community-comments","17":"tag-christmas","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-friday","20":"tag-front-page","21":"tag-games","22":"tag-international","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-nfl-schedule","25":"tag-opinions","26":"tag-prime","27":"tag-release","28":"tag-rumblings","29":"tag-schedule","30":"tag-time"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114479616710976977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37192","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=37192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}