A pessimist's guide to the 2025 Buffalo Bills

While the injury is minor, a litany of issues has kept Bosa off the field in his nine-year career. Foot and hamstring problems that cost him eight games in 2023 and a groin injury landed him on the injured reserve list for 12 games in 2022. He also missed three games with a hip injury last season.

Once a lock to register double-digit sacks in a season, Bosa hasn’t hit the mark since 2021, when he had 10.5. Since then, he’s averaged 4.6 sacks and 9.3 games played per season.

3. Keon Coleman

By his own assessment, Coleman’s rookie season could have gone much better. "You want to know exactly what I see? When that (expletive) trash, you got to be better, simple as that," Coleman told reporters when asked what he sees when watching last year’s tape.

The 33rd overall pick in last year’s draft looked great with 14 catches, 195 yards and a score in Weeks 7-8 but averaged 1.6 catches and 32 yards per game in his final five contests. 

Coleman appears to have the right attitude and may have finished as Buffalo’s No. 2 receiver with 556 yards and four scores, but he’ll need to do much better if the team hopes to get back to the AFC Championship game.

4. Kansas City

The Bills are undefeated against the Kansas City Chiefs in their last four regular-season games, but 0-4 against them in their last four playoff meetings. The last defeat came in last year’s AFC Championship Game, where Buffalo took a one-point lead into the fourth quarter only to give up a game-winning field goal with 2:42 left in a 32-29 loss.

Double-digit wins, division titles and MVP awards are nice but they won’t mean anything until the Bills find a way to get past the Chiefs in a postseason game.