{"id":44434,"date":"2025-05-12T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/44434\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:17:09","slug":"bills-toughest-game-not-against-chiefs-predicts-nfl-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/44434\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills Toughest Game Not Against Chiefs Predicts NFL Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of winning the AFC East for the last five seasons, and being a consistent Super Bowl contender, the Buffalo Bills are walking into the 2025 season with some marquee matchups on the docket.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo will face the vaunted AFC North that sent three teams to the playoffs last season, and the NFC South. Along the way, they&#8217;ll take on the division winners from the NFC East, AFC South, and AFC West.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The toughest matchup in Buffalo&#8217;s way, though (according to\u00a0Pro Football Network&#8217;s Kyle Soppe) won&#8217;t be anyone in their conference. It won&#8217;t even be the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since the start of 2022, Philadelphia is a league-best 16-5 (76.2% win rate) against future playoff teams in the regular season,&#8221; Soope wrote. &#8220;Buffalo\u2019s season will be defined by how they perform in January, though this devoted fanbase could use a confidence-building win prior to the postseason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bills quarterback Josh Allen is 0-2 against the Eagles in his career. The first loss came in 2019 in a 31-13 thumper to Carson Wentz and Philly. The two teams put up an instant classic in 2023, though, when Jalen Hurts recorded five touchdowns in a 37-34 overtime win.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo and Philadelphia are Super Bowl hopefuls going into the 2025 season. Both teams will be circling their respective games on the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>And if their matchup is anything like the 2023 contest was, fans around the league will be in for a treat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/bills-qb-josh-allen-tied-110354050.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Bills QB Josh Allen Tied To Major Announcement Amid Schedule Rumors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Bills QB Josh Allen Tied To Major Announcement Amid Schedule Rumors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/bills-signing-gabe-davis-josh-104607800.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Bills Signing Gabe Davis Would Be Josh Allen Security Move;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Bills Signing Gabe Davis Would Be Josh Allen Security Move<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of winning the AFC East for the last five seasons, and being a consistent Super Bowl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2063],"tags":[1992,1990,1466,53,1763,346,7,492,872,118,110,2438,2437,6,109,7127],"class_list":{"0":"post-44434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-afc-east","9":"tag-afc-north","10":"tag-afc-south","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-carson-wentz","13":"tag-chiefs","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-jalen-hurts","16":"tag-josh-allen","17":"tag-kansas-city","18":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","19":"tag-kansascity","20":"tag-kansascitychiefs","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","23":"tag-pro-football-network"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114495530349463596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44434","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=44434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}