The Buffalo Bills earned quite a bit of praise heading into the 2022 season. Buffalo has the best odds to win the Super Bowl, great odds for their quarterback to be NFL MVP, and they are in the best position to thrive over the next three years.
USA Today even predicts that the Bills will have the best record in the league by a wide margin:
15-2 for the Bills?
6-11 for the Browns?We've got all your 2022 NFL record projections.https://t.co/jXwDF8vBfQ pic.twitter.com/T9v1pkntgG
— USA TODAY NFL (@usatodaynfl) July 28, 2022
It seems to be all smiles heading into the fall for the Buffalo Bills.
But, in the words of the legendary Lee Corso: Not so fast.
Football analytics expert Warren Sharp sees some reason to pump the brakes on a Super Bowl celebration. Examining some trends, he views the Bills path through the 2022 campaign might be a bit rockier than what many are predicting for the Bills.
Sharp also reveals that Buffalo’s 11-6 record might be hiding some inadequacies regarding the team.
Here is what Sharp has to say about Buffalo’s 2022 future:
speaking truth about the Bills last year:
played the #1 easiest schedule
faced just 6 teams that made the playoffs (2nd fewest) & won only 2 of 6
won just 4 of 10 games when not winning the turnover battle
and now have the 2nd largest increase in schedule difficult this year pic.twitter.com/ORD9zrcyHA
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) July 31, 2022
It’s definitely an oppositional view from the widespread national attention that the Bills have garnered this year. However, it lends itself to a grounded and rational prediction of what the future holds for Buffalo.
After all, this is a team that found a way to lose to Urban Meyer last year. Anything is possible.
It also hints that maybe all of the betting options are not necessarily going to fall into the Bills’ favor.
In the case of Buffalo and Sharp, it’s one situation in which Bills will have to prove someone wrong…once again.
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