Currently the Buffalo Bills have the third worst penalty stats in the NFL
By Chuck Pollock, Senior Sports Writer
It was an issue that dogged coach Sean McDermott and might well have contributed to his firing last season a day after the Bills lost a playoff game at Denver in overtime.
The 2025 Bills were 13th of the 32 NFL teams in penalties called on them and 10th in penalized yardage but many of those flags proved particularly punitive.
Well, despite Buffalo’s current 6-1 record, which happens to be tied for the NFL’s best mark with Monday night’s opponent, the Vikings in Minneapolis, and San Francisco, penalties have also been costly.
Currently, league teams have played either seven or eight games.
Adjusting Buffalo’s numbers for eight, it translates to 70 penalties, third-worst in the NFL behind Cleveland (72) and Green Bay (71) and its adjusted 601 penalty yards are the league’s most.
Those two figures are a source of annoyance to McDermott’s successor, Joe Brady, the former Bills offensive coordinator, who laments the fact that in four of seven games Buffalo has had at least 10 penalties.
The Bills had that number in Sunday’s win over the quarterback-challenged Ravens, though ...