{"id":154148,"date":"2025-09-19T04:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154148\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T04:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:36:07","slug":"no-team-in-nfl-history-has-ever-started-a-season-like-these-buffalo-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154148\/","title":{"rendered":"No team in NFL history has ever started a season like these Buffalo Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The statistics can sometimes tell quite the story.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the case for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> through three weeks of the 2025 NFL regular season after a 31-21 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/miami-dolphins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> on Thursday Night Football.<\/p>\n<p>When you combine the Bills&#8217; stats in the right way, they&#8217;re off to a start to the season that no team has had in the league&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\/news\/buffalo-bills-caught-crazy-random-scott-norwood-stray-primes-tnf-broadcast\/54bf003c2cef0e274a876cf9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bills catch a crazy random Scott Norwood stray on TNF broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OptaSTATS\/status\/1968893620079001960\" rel=\"nofollow\">via OptaStats<\/a>, is the combination that Buffalo has that has never been matched:<\/p>\n<p>3-0 record100-plus points scored0 turnoversLess than 15 penalties150-plus rushing yards per game250-plus net passing yards per game<\/p>\n<p>There have been a couple close calls. The Bills needed to come back from 40-25 down midway through the fourth quarter to beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/baltimore-ravens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a> in Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>And this time around, Buffalo was tied 21-21 with the Miami Dolphins for much of the second half before closing strong.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\/news\/bills-terrel-bernard-hero-buffalo-thursday-night-football-curse\/c2ed5595612850f789993193\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Terrel Bernard plays hero as Bills avoid TNF curse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the full package has been incredible.<\/p>\n<p>No turnovers through three games is absurd.<\/p>\n<p>The low penalty number is crucial.<\/p>\n<p>Running and passing the ball effectively at the same time is massive.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Bills team that can go a long, long way if it keeps doing all these things well. Bills Mafia is certainly hoping for that.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NFL NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The statistics can sometimes tell quite the story. That&#8217;s the case for the Buffalo Bills through three weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-154148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}