Plus, how QB Josh Allen is embracing an enhanced leadership role
In just a few days, the Buffalo Bills will kick off their 2024 NFL season by hosting the Arizona Cardinals at Highmark Stadium, and the national narrative seems to think that quarterback Josh Allen and the Bills will regress on the field this year.
But what do the computers think of Buffalo’s chances at claiming a fifth consecutive AFC East title? Can the Bills surpass their projected win total of 10.5 wins? Today’s edition of Buffalo Rumblinks runs through various computer simulations to predict how the Bills will fare this year.
Simulating the 2024 Buffalo Bills season
Using their Football Power Index, ESPN recently conducted a simulation of the 2024 NFL season, playing out the year through 20,000 simulations to see which teams will make the playoffs and who will wind up hoisting the Lombardi Trophy as Super Bowl champions.
Additionally, the NFL Network, the Buffalo News, Sports Illustrated, and Sporting News offered up their thoughts on how successful the Bills will be this year, while Pro Football Focus and the Democrat & Chronicle provided their bold predictions for Buffalo in 2024.
- 2024 NFL season sim: Predictions, surprises, playoff teams - ESPN
- Bills face disastrous outcome in ESPN’s 2024 NFL season simulation - Sports Illustrated Buffalo Bills
- ESPN projects Bills to miss playoffs in strange 2024 NFL season preview - Sports Illustrated Buffalo Bills
- 2024 AFC win-total projections: Chiefs remain team to beat; Jets, Ravens, Texans earn division crowns - NFL.com
- Buffalo Bills win total odds & predictions: NFL win total picks for Bills in 2024 - Buffalo News (subscription required)
- 2024 NFL Season: Predicting Every Game, All 32 Team Records - Sports Illustrated
- Predicting every game on the Bills’ schedule ahead of NFL Week 1 | Sporting News
- Six bold predictions for the Bills 2024 season: Josh Allen poised for a big season - Democrat & Chronicle
- Bold predictions for all 32 NFL teams in 2024 - Pro Football Focus
- 2024 AFC East Preview: Scouting the Buffalo Bills - Sports Illustrated Buffalo Bills
- NFL writer projects Bills to tumble in AFC East standings in 2024 record prediction - Sports Illustrated Buffalo Bills
- Every NFL team’s biggest concern as 2024 season begins: O-line play, health, rookie QB - The Athletic (subscription required)
QB Josh Allen’s leadership expectations
Entering his seventh year as the quarterback of the Bills, Josh Allen is in an unfamiliar place: serving in a leadership role over a team that has undergone plenty of roster turnover, with six of the eight captains from last year’s squad gone. Hear Allen discuss how he’s focused on becoming a better leader heading into the 2024 NFL season.
- ‘I’m still getting better:’ Josh Allen in 7th year focused on leadership of Bills in transition | News 4 Buffalo
- The evolution of Buffalo’s roster and QB Josh Allen’s leadership expectations - ESPN.com Buffalo Bills blog
Even more Bills News
We learn about the methods used by general manager Brandon Beane and his staff to separate the top draft prospects, hear why edge rusher Von Miller is counting on a bounce-back season, identify the Bills you should be targeting in fantasy football, and more!
- Brandon Beane and staff use ‘Bills Blue’ to separate draft prospects. Here’s what it is and how it works - Buffalo News (subscription required)
- ‘If it’s on me, we’ll be good’: Always-optimistic Von Miller expects to rebound for Bills - Buffalo News (subscription required)
- 3 Bills you need to target in your fantasy football drafts - Sports Illustrated Buffalo Bills
- Bills like new QB Mike White’s no-fear playing style – he’s not just ‘Checkdown Charlie’ - Buffalo News (subscription required)
- The Satchel: Terry Pegula succession plan, Bills PSLs, Keon Coleman WR1 and more - The Athletic (subscription required)
- How tight ends like Travis Kelce helped reshape the position - ESPN
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