Ravens vs. Bills: Showdown on Opening Sunday Night Football

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00:00Bills, Ravens, opening Sunday night of the year, Sunday, September 7th.

00:06If you look right now, it's not the Chiefs as the AFC title favorites,

00:10despite winning their third consecutive AFC crown this previous season.

00:15It's the Bills and the Ravens, who are 50 cents shy as co-favorites right now of KC at plus 360.

00:23So how do they square off against each other?

00:25It's the Bills, an ever-so-slight one-and-a-half-point favorite in Orchard Park.

00:30And the early money line is minus 116.

00:33The early money line, a combination of Donnie's two shows.

00:37There you go. It's beautiful.

00:38And also, the expectations for the Buffalo Bills, and it is based on the scheduling,

00:42because I can't get enough of talking about just going over the landmines that the NFC East has.

00:47And there's good football teams.

00:48The commander's looking to take another step.

00:50And you say, wow, look who they play.

00:52The Eagles, hey, that's a 13-win football team.

00:54No, it's not. Did you see their schedule of what they're going through?

00:57Now, flip it over here to the AFC East, where I now look at the Buffalo Bills.

01:00And I haven't gone through everybody's schedule to say, okay, this is 10 wins.

01:03This is 12 wins. This is 11 wins, all that stuff.

01:06But I look at the Bills' schedule and say, all right, let's just say they're at home.

01:09First game of the season against the Ravens, they win that.

01:11Then it's the Jets, Dolphins, Saints, Patriots.

01:14Falcons, who have Michael Penix.

01:15The Panthers, who you'll hopefully take another step.

01:17Then it's the Chiefs at home.

01:18Dolphins, again, we don't know what they're going to be.

01:20The Buccaneers, quality team.

01:22At the Texans, probably going to be tougher there.

01:24At the Steelers, we'll see if Aaron Rodgers is still around.

01:26Bengals at home, Patriots, Browns, Eagles, and the Jets to end the season.

01:30That's one of those schedules that look like, okay,

01:32the wins are going to pile up for the Buffalo Bills as opposed to some other teams

01:36with much harder schedules.

01:37So the optimism for me is, do I love the Buffalo Bills roster?

01:41Not necessarily.

01:42Do I think they make the playoffs even before I saw the schedule?

01:45Absolutely.

01:46But now I look at the schedule and say,

01:47you might be looking at a team that's going to be fighting for that number one overall seed

01:52in the AFC to get a home field advantage.

01:54I'm liking the Buffalo Bills from what I see from this schedule release.