Sammy Watkins and Stephon Gilmore are both gone, and first-year coach Sean McDermott and general manager Brandon Beane are sorting through a roster that includes only 32 players who were part of the squad last season.
As the Buffalo Bills rebuild for the future, neutral observers are not high on Buffalo's chances of finding success in 2017. I prognosticated the Bills will finish with a 5-11 record this season as part of our NFL Nation game-by-game predictions published Wednesday.
My colleagues were not quite as optimistic. Their predictions about how the teams they cover will fare against the Bills amounted to a 3-13 aggregate record.