Highlighting AFC East blockbuster games of 2025 season

The NFL launched its full schedule for the 2025 season on Wednesday. Right here is the blockbuster recreation (and one other intriguing matchup) for each workforce within the AFC East.

Buffalo Payments | Complete schedule

BLOCKBUSTER | vs. Chiefs, Nov. 2 (Week 9): For the sixth time in as a few years, Payments quarterback Josh Allen will face the Chiefs in a regular-season recreation. Allen has a 4-1 document towards Kansas Metropolis within the common season however is 0-4 towards them within the playoffs, together with a 32-29 defeat in final 12 months’s AFC Championship Sport.

ALSO INTRIGUING | vs. Ravens, Sept. 7 (Week 1): Simply the most effective matchup of opening weekend, NFL followers get to see two of the league’s greatest quarterbacks sq. off as soon as once more on Sunday Night time Soccer.

Ravens quarterback, and former NFL MVP, Lamar Jackson, threw for a career-high 4,172 yards and 41 touchdowns in 2024 however was runner-up to Allen for final 12 months’s award. Baltimore led the league by averaging 424.9 yards per recreation whereas scoring the third-most factors (30.5) per contest in 2024. The Payments averaged 30.9 factors per recreation earlier than beating the Ravens 27-25 within the divisional spherical of final 12 months’s playoffs.

Miami Dolphins | Complete schedule 

BLOCKBUSTER | vs. Commanders, Nov. 16 (Week 11):  This 12 months, Miami and Washington will meet at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium for the NFL’s first-ever common season recreation in Spain.

When the groups final met in 2023, the Dolphins beat Ron Rivera’s Commanders 45-15. After changing Rivera with head coach Dan Quinn, Washington made all of it the best way to final 12 months’s NFC championship Sport, the place they fell to the Tremendous Bowl champion Eagles. 

Quinn’s final journey to the large recreation got here in 2016 when his Atlanta Falcons misplaced to Invoice Belichick’s Patriots in Tremendous Bowl LI. Again then, Quinn had a 33-year-old offensive assistant named Mike McDaniel, presently the Dolphins’ head coach. Maybe they’ll reminisce over some post-game vino earlier than leaving Spain’s capital metropolis.

ALSO INTRIGUING | vs. Ravens, Oct. 30 (Week 9): Jackson has 4 profession video games with an ideal passer score (158.3) since becoming a member of the Ravens. His first got here in a 59-10 win towards Miami to open the 2019 season. His final additionally got here towards the Dolphins in a 56-19 victory to finish the 2023 common season.

With working again Derrick Henry signed to a two-year, $30M contract extension on Wednesday, Baltimore’s high-powered offense will probably be a problem for Miami’s fourth-ranked protection on Thursday Night time Soccer.

New England Patriots | Complete schedule

BLOCKBUSTER | at Buffalo Payments, Oct. 5 (Week 5):  If the Patriots need to get again to the highest of the AFC East, they’ll must get previous the Payments, who’re 7-3 towards New England of their final 10 video games.

This recreation will probably be one in every of three primetime video games for the Patriots this season after enjoying in only one final season. New England really ended the 2024 season with a 23-16 dwelling win towards Buffalo, snapping a six-game dropping streak when one other loss would have assured them the highest decide on this 12 months’s draft.

Rookie quarterback Drake Maye sat out that recreation however has an ideal probability to upset his division rival with four-time Professional Bowl receiver Stefon Diggs catching passes towards his outdated workforce within the Patriots’ last recreation at Highmark Stadium.

ALSO INTRIGUING | at Tennessee Titans, Oct. 19 (Week 7): New head coach Mike Vrabel began his head teaching profession with the Tennessee Titans in 2018, main the workforce to 4 profitable seasons on the best way to being named AP Coach of the Yr in 2021.

He was changed with former Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan in 2024 after a pair of dropping seasons in 2022 and 2023. The Week 7 matchup will probably be Vrabel’s first journey again to Nissan Discipline, the place he’ll look to include Titans quarterback Cam Ward, the primary general decide within the 2025 NFL Draft.

New York Jets | Complete schedule

BLOCKBUSTER | vs. Steelers, Sept. 7 (Week 1): New York will begin the 2025 season by enjoying the previous workforce of their new beginning quarterback. In fact, Pittsburgh might say the identical if Aaron Rodgers indicators with the Steelers as anticipated.

The Jets moved on from Rodgers within the offseason in favor of Justin Fields, who began the primary six video games for Pittsburgh earlier than being benched in favor of Russell Wilson. Rodgers went 6-12 with 3,897 yards and 28 touchdowns for New York and regarded nothing just like the participant who beforehand gained 4 NFL MVP awards.

In actuality, neither workforce appears to be like to be superb this season however simply think about how Jets followers would react to Rodgers’ not-so-triumphant return to MetLife Stadium sporting a Steelers jersey.

ALSO INTRIGUING | vs Broncos, Oct. 12 (Week 6):  Regardless of the rating, Jets proprietor Woody Johnson can’t lose when his workforce travels to play its fourth recreation in London and fifth worldwide recreation general. 

As a part of the league’s Global Markets Program, an initiative that grants worldwide advertising rights to particular NFL golf equipment, the Jets are permitted to construct model consciousness and fandom by means of occasions and industrial alternatives in London. 

Final season, Broncos quarterback Bo Nix misplaced to new Jets quarterback Justin Fields in his second NFL begin. Two weeks later, he pulled out a 10-9 victory over New York regardless of finishing simply 12 passes for 60 yards. This time, he’ll look to provide Johnson a run for his cash throughout the pond.