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Breakdown: The Bills had the NFL's drabbest schedule last season. They had zero primetime games. They didn't have any 4 o'clock kickoffs. Every week -- home and away -- they played at 1 p.m. Sunday. This season's schedule doesn't provide much more...

Breakdown: The New England Patriots must be ready to roll from the jump. Three of their first four games will be on the road. They'll open at the Miami Dolphins on Monday night, visit the Buffalo Bills in Week 3 and travel across the country to pl...

Breakdown: The New York Jets are in demand again. Last year, they didn't play their second 1 p.m. Sunday game until Week 8 because they played in prime-time so often (five times) and were an attractive option for late Sunday kickoffs, too. They're...

With all of the standings sorted out, opponents and locations for the 2011 NFL schedule have been determined. Every year, teams play division rivals twice apiece, and we already knew the AFC East will play the AFC West and NFC East next. The rest ...

How panicky should New York Jets fans be about their team's playoff chances? About 25 percent worth. Taking the remaining three weeks of the entire NFL schedule into account, AccuScore has computed the Jets still have a healthy 75.3 percent cha...

INDIANAPOLIS -- It'll be a busy and informative day on the AFC East blog. Here is Thursday's media schedule for AFC East coaches and executives here at the NFL scouting combine. My intention is to post bullet points shortly after each news conf...

Take heart, Buffalo Bills fans. Your team doesn't have the NFL's most difficult 2011 schedule. They own the second-most difficult schedule. ESPN Stats & Information worked out all the arithmetic based on 2010 records and found the Bills' upcomi...

The NFL frontloaded and backloaded the schedule for divisional games this year to add significance to potentially irrelevant games in Weeks 16 and 17. The New York Jets sneaked into the playoffs last year because the Indianapolis Colts pulled thei...

The 2010 schedule featured cross-over games between two of the NFL's premier divisions. The AFC East and AFC North concluded their round robin Sunday at Heinz Field, where the New York Jets beat the Pittsburgh Steelers. In a series between divi...

The NFL released an interesting stat to illustrate how tight competition has been this year. Of the 104 games played, 31 have been decided by three points or fewer. That's 29.8 percent of the schedule. If the trend persists throughout the seaso...

The NFL has finalized the dates and times for every preseason game. The AFC East schedule follows: Buffalo Bills Aug. 13 at Washington Redskins, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 19 versus Indianapolis Colts in Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 28 versus Cincinnati...

Breakdown: The New England Patriots have the AFC East's most difficult schedule based on records from last season. Their schedule ranks as the sixth-toughest in the NFL, with opponents going 136-120 last year. The other three AFC East squads have an ...

The NFL will release its schedule at 7 p.m., but some details are leaking early. The Buffalo Bills announced they will play the Chicago Bears in the Rogers Centre at 1 p.m. on Nov. 7. The Bears should be a palatable opponent for Bills fans upse...

Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Graham The NFL on Friday released official training camp start dates for all 32 teams. While many teams have had their schedules hammered out, some had been waiting to release the information. Here's the AFC East rund...

Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Graham New England Patriots Hector Longo of the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune goes through the NFL's third-toughest schedule and sees the Patriots going "at least 14-2." John Tomase of the Boston Herald trots ou...

Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Graham Breakdown: Unfortunately for Buffalo Bills fans, a new annual tradition when the NFL releases its schedule is learning which game they will lose to Toronto. The Bills and New York Jets will play in the Rogers Centr...