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Peter Schrager
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Every week, FOX Sports NFL Insider Peter Schrager opens his notebook and opines on three of the biggest storylines around the league. Here are his takes heading into Week 14, including how the 2024 Bills compare to recent iterations (and those from the early 90s), Saquon Barkley’s historic run, and a surprise candidate to keep an eye on in the Bears’ head coaching search.
2024 Bills: Best Buffalo Team Ever?
The best Buffalo Bills team ever was probably the 1990 one. That Marv Levy-led squad went 13-3, was undefeated at home, absolutely dominated the AFC East, and crushed the Raiders 51-3 in the AFC Championship Game. Parcells, Belichick and the ’90 Giants got the best of them in the Super Bowl, and you know how the next three years went after that. If that ’90 squad was the best Bills team of that era, we might have our team from this one.
I think the 2024 Bills are not only the best Buffalo team of the Sean McDermott/Josh Allen era, but could challenge any of those early ’90s teams. I know it’s still early, but what they’re doing right now is historic. With their 35-10 thrashing of the 49ers, the Bills have won seven straight games, and in that winning streak, are beating teams by an average of 13.6 points. Furthermore, they’ve won their fifth division title in a row, and have done so in truly historic fashion. Get this: The Bills have won the division before even playing the Patriots this season. It’s just the third time in NFL history a team has clinched a division before playing all three division opponents.
Since Buffalo doesn’t play New England until Week 16, this year’s Bills are the first team in NFL history to clinch its division at least two weeks before playing one of its division rivals for the first time.
The Bills’ two defeats came months ago and both games — losses to the Ravens and Texans — came amid a rash of injuries and…
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Publish date : 2024-12-02 20:25:00
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