Part two of the Buffalo Bills sojourn through America’s southwest continues Sunday afternoon when they head to Las Vegas to take on the Raiders at Allegiant Stadium, a place where the Bills have played only once, and it was in front of no fans in the Covid year of 2020.
The Bills arrived in Los Angeles last Sunday afternoon, then defeated the Rams at SoFi Stadium the next night, 37-34 in overtime. Rather than fly all the way home immediately after the game like they normally would, they opted to stay on the West Coast for the week.
They checked into a hotel in Newport Beach, California which is about five miles from the campus of the University of California, Irvine, home of the Anteaters, where they have been practicing ahead of their game against
the Raiders who are off to a somewhat surprising 3-2 start under their own first-year head coach Klint Kubiak.
Brady said the organization made the decision to stay out west because the Rams game was a Monday nighter, and flying back to Buffalo and then coming right back to Las Vegas five days later would have been a grind for the players.
“Flying back there, you're getting in late, there's a recovery component of it and there's a physical component, and then having to fly all the way back here,” Brady said. “Look, it happens and teams do it. I'm fortunate, Mr. Pegula was all about it. And now it's about our guys taking advantage of that recovery and making sure that they're doing things.
“They're taking advantage of as much opportunity they have of living in the training room doing what we have to do. They played a lot of plays the other day, but there's no excuse. No one cares come Sunday. And so that to me is the most important thing, the recovery component.”
The last time the Bills did this was 2012, Chan Gailey’s final season as head coach. They played at San Francisco and got walloped 45-3, then stayed on the left coast for their game against the Cardinals in Phoenix and it paid dividends as they won 19-16.
There was another benefit to staying out west for the week, similar to that of training camp at St. John Fisher University.
“Being away and then we're all in the hotel together or the guys are watching tape together, they're growing together, they’re eating together, they're doing that stuff from a training camp perspective,” Brady said. “So I hope there is growth from our team.
“But at the end of the day our job here is to come win, prepare what we got to do here, get on the plane (to Las Vegas) and try and find a way to go 1-0 this week.”
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Buffalo Bills vs Raiders game today
- Date: Sunday
- Start time: 4:25 p.m.
- Venue: Allegiant Stadium
What channel is the Bills vs Raiders game today? TV schedule
∎ Cable/Network TV: CBS. The game will be available locally via the following stations: WROC channel 8 (Rochester area), WIVB channel 4 (Buffalo area), WTVH channel 5 (Syracuse area), WKTV channel 2 (Utica area), WENY channel 36 (Elmira area), WRGB channel 6 (Albany area), and WBNG channel 12 (Binghamton area).
How can you stream Bills vs Raiders game today?
∎ Online streaming services: You can watch games on NFL.com and the NFL mobile app, and you can subscribe to NFL+, the league’s own streaming service, though you can’t cast the games to your TV - you must watch on your phone or tablet.
∎ TV streaming: You can also stream games if you have subscriptions to Spectrum, DirecTV Choice, Fubo Sports, Sling, Hulu + Live TV, YouTubeTV + NFL Sunday Ticket, and Paramount+.
Bills vs. Raiders odds
Odds courtesy of BetMGM as of Friday
- Betting line: Bills -4.5
- Over-under: 53
- Money line: Bills minus-235 (bet $235 to win $100) and Raiders plus-195 (bet $100 to win $195).
Who is announcing the Bills vs. Raiders game
- Play-by-play: Jim Nantz
- Analyst: JJ Watt
- Sideline reporter: Tracy Wolfson
Bills vs Raiders on radio today
You can listen on SiriusXM satellite radio on channel 261 (Bills feed) and channel 192 (Raiders feed), and on traditional radio on the Bills Radio Network. Chris Brown has the play-by-play, Eric Wood is the analyst, and Steve Tasker is the sideline reporter. The network includes:
- Rochester (WAIO 95.1 FM);
- Buffalo (WGRF 96.9 FM);
- Syracuse (WSKO 1260 AM);
- Albany (WOFX 92.5 FM);
- Utica (WKLL 94.9 FM);
- Dunkirk (WDOE 1410 AM);
- Hornell (WKPQ 105.3 FM);
- Elmira (WMTT 94.7 FM);
- Jamestown (WWSE 93.3 FM);
- Olean (WPIG 95.7 FM);
- Ogdensburg (WQTK 92.7 FM);
- Watertown (WOTT 94.1 FM);
- Bradford, Pa. (WBRR 100.1 FM);
- Cortland/Ithaca (WIII 99.9 FM);
- Auburn (WAUB 1590 AM);
- Geneva (WGVA 1240 AM);
- Binghamton (WENE 1430 AM);
- Newark (WACK 1420 AM);
- Cobleskill/Schoharie (WSDE 1190 AM);
- Williamsport, PA (WRAK 1400 AM);
- Erie, Pa. (WRKT 104.9 FM);
- New York City (WEPN 1050 AM);
- West Palm Beach, Fla. (WESP 106.3 FM);
- Montreal, Canada (CKGM 690 AM);
- Ottawa, Canada (CFGO 1200 AM);
- Toronto, Canada (CHUM 1050 AM).
Buffalo Bills 2026 schedule
- Week 1: Sunday, Sept. 13 at Houston Texans, W 36-31.
- Week 2: Thursday, Sept. 17 vs. Detroit Lions, 8:15 p.m.
- Week 3: Sunday, Sept. 27 vs.Los Angeles Chargers, W 24-16.
- Week 4: Sunday, Oct. 4 vs. New England Patriots, L 26-29
- Week 5: Monday, Oct. 12 at Los Angeles Rams, W 37-34 OT
- Week 6: Sunday, Oct. 18 at Las Vegas Raiders, 4:25 p.m.
- Week 7: Bye Week
- Week 8: Sunday, Nov. 1 vs. Baltimore Ravens, 1 p.m.
- Week 9: Monday, Nov.9 at Minnesota Vikings, 8:15 p.m.
- Week 10: Sunday, Nov. 15 at New York Jets, 1 p.m.
- Week 11: Sunday, Nov. 22 vs. Miami Dolphins, 1 p.m.
- Week 12: Thursday, Nov. 26 vs. Kansas City Chiefs, 8:20 p.m.
- Week 13: Sunday, Dec. 6 at New England Patriots, 4:25 p.m.
- Week 14, Sunday, Dec. 13: at Green Bay Packers, 8:20 p.m.
- Week 15: Saturday, Dec. 19 vs. Chicago Bears, 8:20 p.m.
- Week 16: Friday, Dec. 25 at Denver Broncos, 4:30 p.m.
- Week 17: Sunday, Jan. 3, at Miami Dolphins, 1 p.m.
- Week 18: TBD vs. New York Jets
Playoffs
- Wild-Card Round: Jan. 16-18
- Divisional Round: Jan. 23-24
- Conference Championships: Jan. 31
- Super Bowl LXI: Feb. 14, SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, California Levi's Stadium, 6:30 p.m., ESPN/ABC
Sal Maiorana has covered the Buffalo Bills for four decades including 37 years as the full-time beat writer for the D&C. He has written numerous books about the history of the team, and he is also co-host of the BLEAV in Bills podcast/YouTube show. He can be reached at maiorana@gannett.com, and you can follow him on X @salmaiorana and on Bluesky @salmaiorana.bsky.social.
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