While the 2024 NFL Schedule will be released in its entirety on Wednesday night, the NFL has given each of their broadcast partners the opportunity to announce one early-season marquee matchup. And after NBC, FOX, CBS, and ESPN all took their turns boasting their nationally televised games of the season, that left the NFL's newest broadcast partner, Amazon, to make the final official announcement in the pre-schedule reveal window.

“NFL schedule release: #Bills vs. #Dolphins will be the first Thursday Night Football game of the season on Amazon in Week 2,” writes Ari Meirov of The 33rd Team on Twitter. The matchup was also officially announced by both the NFL and NFL on Prime Video official Twitter accounts.

Like all of the rest of the games from the 2024 NFL schedule that have already been announced by the league, the Buffalo Bills vs. Miami Dolphins is a matchup that will certainly garner plenty of interest among NFL fans. Buffalo and Miami both come into the season with Super Bowl aspirations, and are expected to be the top two teams in the AFC East, with the New York Jets lingering as an intriguing third option. Last year, the AFC East crown came down to a Week 18 meeting between these two division rivals down in Miami, with Buffalo coming away with a 21-14 win and their fourth consecutive AFC East title.

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen pushing the ball ahead against the Miami Dolphins

What to expect from Buffalo at Miami 

Well, if the last two seasons are any indication, we can expect that it will be one hell of a matchup when these two teams hook up at Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday September 12th. Over the last two years, since Mike McDaniel took over as the Dolphins head coach, Buffalo and Miami have played five times — four times in the regular season and once in the AFC Wild Card Round — and four of those five games have been decided by a touchdown or less. The architects of the NFL schedule are surely hoping this meeting will make that five of six.

After trading away Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans for a 2nd round pick, I suppose you can make a case that the Bills' Super Bowl window is at the very least in the process of closing. But with Josh Allen under center, it feels like the window will remain cracked open at least a little bit, and if it isn't, the Bills QB will probably just put his head down and run right through it to open it back up.

As for Miami, I'm not even sure that their Super Bowl window has been open, considering their lack of postseason success each of the last two years. Despite making the NFL Playoffs for back-to-back seasons for the first time in over two decades, Mike McDaniel and Tua Tagovailoa have yet to prove they can win a playoff game. Perhaps this will be the year they can get over that hump. An early test against Buffalo could give us an idea of if the Dolphins are ready to make the leap.