Proof Positive the Patriots are BACK: Buffalo Fan Sites are Whining the Pats' Schedule 'Royally Screws' the Bills

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If you've been present on Earth over the past quarter century, you don't need me to explain how the Patriots and Bills fortunes have changed over the years. But I will. From 2001 to 2019, the Pats went an incomprehensible 34-4 against the Bills. Since then, it's been 3-8, including that disastrous playoff game in 2021. And should've been 2-9, if Jerod Mayo's team didn't screw up trying to screw up and won the Week 18 game. The biggest defeat in a Tank War since Iraq at Battle of 73 Easting in Operation Desert Storm. 

Since 2020, there have been a lot more of this:

… and moments like this:

… than any of us could've imagined five years ago. Or ever wanted to. And it's painfully obvious that the only road to success going forward is through Western New York. The object in your way becomes your path, and all that. Or to co-opt the line Cato the Elder put at the end of every speech, even if he was talking about grain prices or whatever, Buffalo delenda est. Buffalo must be destroyed.

And now that the Vrabel Restoration is well underway and the Summer of Optimism is about to begin in New England, it seems Bills fans are starting to feel the heat. Understanding their team that was standing in the way has become the path. We know this is so because they're gone back to their 2000s and 2010s default setting of bellyaching about how unfair it all is:

Source - While the Bills do have themselves a favorable schedule, there is always one factor that teams and fans overlook that ultimately screws them over. That factor is taking on an opponent who is coming off a bye week.

The bye week is very crucial for rest and getting extra time to prepare for an opponent. The Bills will have that advantage going into Week 8 when they take on the Carolina Panthers, as Buffalo has a bye in Week 7. However, the Bills have been given a huge disadvantage against the Patriots in Week 15 in Foxborough.

Giving this advantage royally hurts the Bills seeing as how New England will get the chance to rest up and have extra time to prepare for Josh Allen. Not to mention, it’s happening in December when the playoff race is going a million miles a minute and both of these teams could be in the mix of it.

Oh no!!! 

In the span of 22 days, from November 23 to that Week 15 trip to Buffalo, the Patriots play only once. And that's at the Giants, who are pretty much swimming to the bottom blowing bubbles so they can fire Brian Daboll's staff and draft Arch Manning. 

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Now, were I not filled with compassion for how terribly unjust this is to Bills Mafia, I'd point out that the Patriots don't have their bye until Week 14. But out of kindness, I won't complain about that. Instead I'll agree with these poor unfortunates about how the NFL is screwing their team. Royally screwing them, in fact. Just like they did all through the Dynasty years. Referring to the Patriots Dynasty, mind you. The one with the nine trips to the Super Bowl and six wins. And not the one the Bills have been having, with zero AFC championships. 

It's all so terribly, terribly unfair to have to deal with such a terribly unfair disadvantage when, as they point out, both teams will be vying for playoff seedings. It's even more unfair that New England has the second softest strength of schedule:

A shame. The kind of thing they haven't had to worry about in Buffalo for half a decade. But the era of feeling unthreatened in the AFC East is over for them. Just a crying, crying shame. 

I remember this feeling. It's good to have it back again. Thanks, Bills Mafia.