The Buffalo Bills had a lot of doubters and naysayers entering the 2024 season after an offseason full of changes. Many thought this would be the year the Miami Dolphins or New York Jets took the AFC East away from the Bills, but instead the Bills became the first team of the year to clinch their division and did so earlier than any team in 15 years.
Of those people who bet against Buffalo was NFL Network’s Rich Eisen. And he was quick to raise his hand on the Monday edition of The Rich Eisen Show.Â
“I’m gonna raise my hand and say my bad,” Eisen said. “And I’m gonna say my bad to the great football-loving people of snowy western New York. I took the cheese in the same way I was not, and still not taking that cheese that the Kansas City Chiefs can’t flip a switch and win another Super Bowl while we watch them struggle… but for some reason, I saw the cheese of Stefon Diggs being a Texan and the back-end of that defense being devoid of a lot of their bold-faced named guys that helped them have a Super Bowl window open with the generationally brilliant Josh Allen and his rookie contract and in the early years of his next contract. I looked at all of that and
thought to myself this is the time where the Buffalo Bills could get got. And I chose the Dolphins to win the division. I did choose the Dolphins to win the division.”
Eisen highlights the video the Bills’ social team released of several media members saying the Bills wouldn’t win the division in which he and several of his colleagues were highlighted and acknowledges he was wrong.
“[I] was wrong,” Eisen said. “Not just wrong – dead wrong. I mean absolutely way off the mark awful wrong… [Josh Allen] is the leading quarterback candidate for Most Valuable Player…. I couldn’t have been more off…”
The Bills are guaranteed to host at least one playoff game, and it will likely be at least two. Now, they set their sights on the No. 1 seed.