Because I think the Bills have the talent to take it all. No I am not on crack, just a homer, thats all. Seriously though, I think the Bills have a very good shot this year. They have very good, very balanced offensive weapons and their defense is solid, not giving up the home run ball. This whole season will depend on how the o-line protects Edwards and provides running lanes and the d-line SACKING the QB. It is won in the trenches.

I think the Dolphins will actually come back down to earth this season (I think we win both) and the Jets while game will not be able to keep up with the rest of the Division due to a rookie QB, but who will do better than expected (we take both there too).

I plan on just writing off the two NE games and just pray we keep it within 10 points at games end. This means in my mind we have 4 wins in hand, and now just need to eke out another 4-5 from the other 10 games. Very doable, but not enough to make the playoffs, but enough to keep DJ around for another season.

and happy

10 Remember, try to be realistic….

The Bills were ranked 25th in offense (yd/G) and 23rd in Pts/G. They were also ranked 14th in defence. Admittedly the schedule was statistically easier than this year’s but Carolina, Atlanta, Miami, Jets, Pats, Tampa, NO and Kansas all had schedules under .500.

I wouldn’t call myself an optimist but I think we realistically have a good chance against Carolina, Atlanta and maybe even Tennessee and Indy (moreso the latter). Tennessee has a good running game and defence, but the Colts have no running game, a good defence and in 2008, Indy’s receivers were somewhat inconsistent. Unless Anthony Gonzalez happens to have a breakout year, Wayne-Gonzalez isn’t as big a threat as Harrison-Wayne, plus our pass defence isn’t too terrible (besides the pass rush).

As for Carolina and Atlanta, the reason I think the Bills have a good chance against them as their defence hasn’t dramatically improved. Who do those teams really have on defence besides John Abraham and Julius Peppers? I know, the O-line is our biggest weakness, and they have two of the best running games (our defence’s weakness) but if by this point our air game has really taken off (and Edwards is still alive) we can carve them up.

For the division, I think we can beat the Jets twice and twice in Miami isn’t too far-fetched, but I’m sticking with once against Miami. New England is…well, what can I say? Our best chance against them will be Week 1 with everyone healthy and TO ready to make an impact. I KNOW if we beat them once, they won’t let it happen again.

I’ll give the Bills the Bucs, Saints, Dolphins, Jets, Jets, Browns, Texans, Jags, and Chiefs as my realistic (9-7). Atlanta, Indy and Carolina are toss-ups but I think we might have the juice to win one of them. Hell if I’m being optimistic, I might as well say we beat Miami twice and IND/CAR/ATL too (11-5). But 11 is the most I’m willing to guess at.

On the other hand, we have a real chance of dropping at least one Jets game and either Houston or New Orleans making us 7-9. Personally, I’d rather go 6-10 or lower and get the whole franchise overhauled rather than wallowing in mediocrity at 7-9 AGAIN.

If we reach the magical 7-9, I’ll be stunned. I think this team is going to suck because of Jauron and Trent. I just don’t think it’s a match made in heaven. Well, actually, I think Trent could lead a winning team, but there’s no way I can get behind Jauron. The pass rush is going to be brutal again, and we have to hope Turk f’n Schonert is competent. That’s a lot to hope for. 6-10 is my prediction….hopefully, we’re good finally….

Real quick I’ll tell you I have them loosing to the Pats, Saints, and Dolphins the first time – and we beat the Bucs. Which starts us out at 1-3. But we are in the games and leaving a sediment of optimism to the National media and us crazy Bills fans. We will be competitive. Our running game will suffer without Lynch and our Offensive line will be much maligned.

Then we beat the Browns, Jets, and Texans, but loose to the Panthers in the next four games. Making us go on a 3-1 string. As you know most teams break the season down in quadrants, and there is an upswing of confidence and we seem to play pretty good. Now we are 4-4 through the first 8 games and reason to think this team can make a playoff push. By the way Lynch will be a big part of this push and all his off the field issues will be forgiven, as the fun loving running back wins back the hearts of the Bills fans.

We loose a tough fought game to the Titans. We just couldn’t handle their overall toughness, but we gain some much needed respect for hanging with one of the better and tougher teams in the league. We are now 4-5, and some of the Bills buzz nationally has gone away because our record leaves nothing to talk about.

Then we win the next 4 games against the Jags, Fins, Jets, and Chiefs. All of the sudden this team is showing up on highlights on every network. We are 8-5 and proving that the T.O. experiment has worked as he is over double digit touchdowns.

Now for the bad news. We will go on a 3 game skid loosing to the Pats, Falcons, and Colts. And our final record will be 8-8.

This team is going to be fun to watch offensively. The streak of going 3-1 to bring us to 4-4 and the 4 game streak in the middle of the season to bring us 8-5 will be twice the high that our 4-0 start to last year was. But the tough pill of the 3 game loosing skid will be such as much of a crash as we have endured in the last 10 years. Then during the off season the calmer heads at Buffalo Rumblings will validate the really good season we had, and we again will direct our attention to an optimistic 2010.

As MRW stated… Be realistic!

This team has an overhauled offensive line, no key additions on defense, and our only major addition on offense is TO.

I think 7 (or maybe 8) wins sounds about right. Our schedule is pretty difficult.

i think we beat NE first game, Schobel plays like the pro bowler he was, Brady just cannot get into the game. We beat the Jets twice, Sanchez shows promise but is no way near there yet, split games with Miami and business as usual when the Pats come to WNY, they hammer us. 4-2 in division and i would say we reclaim some of the respect that we lost last year by going 0-6
We beat Chiefs, Falcons, Jags, Panthers and the Browns
We lose to Colts, Texans, Saints, Titans, Bucs
Jauron survives Rumblers are torn between joy of a winning season and disappointment of no play offs and no new boss.
And the most shocking thing of the whole season, Trent Edwards is selected to the Probowl!!!!!!!!!

I still think they have a decent chance in week 1.

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

almost everyone that commented only had the bills at 9 wins at the most. Yet the polls show 23% (majority) have 10+ wins.

O.K. sorry about the “boo” but in being a realist I beleive in a few things.

2009 is THE year of the Bills

New line concerns – its not THAT tough to play line people. Most comments I’ve read say “oh it takes time – they need to jel/gel/jello”. Just an FYI – these guys have been playing line for at least 6 years if not longer. Not only that – the rookies were taken in pretty much the first round as I’ll call it. Levitre was a little late – but he’s not a 5th or even 3rd round pick.

Our lines gonna be fine – relax homeboys and homegurls.

Trent – he is what he is – with the weapons – our O’s gonna be nasty – just bet on it.

Defense will be alot like last year – not going to win a lot of games – but shouldn’t lose you many either. They’re solid enough to get us 10 wins.

DJ and Shonert – jeez – I know they have their issues – but their not 5 year old kids with no education what so ever. Most of their issues I think have been blown way out of porportion. They’re not that bad or they wouldn’t be in the NFL still – come on – I’ve been haters on DJ and Shonert in the past – and rightfully so – but their not cow milkers trying to be football coaches – they can make it work. its not cold fusion or dark matter here folks.

Prediction: 10-6/11-5/12-4

at Pats – W – oh yeah I said it. Sorry Brady, sorry Pats fans. We’re eyeing you guys here – not hoping for a good preseason from Tom, not hoping that the line holds. We’re aiming for you – as in your our bulls eye. Win time baby – WIN TIME
Bucs – W – like i’m worried about a rebuilding team – oh and its home so it won’t be 300 degrees
Saints – L – yeah that offense is scary – remember the AZ game last year – yup
at Dolphins – W – 2-0 in the division already J2? you bet your a**
Browns – W – the quinn show begins
at Jets – L – defense is going to kill us
at Panthers – L – Jake the Snake has a good game – boooooooo
Texans – W – we seem to beat these guys – history continues
at Titans – W – titans will be .500 at this point – sorry – sans haynesworth that D’s pretty average
at Jaguars – W – just how its going down.
Dolphins – W – break out the brooms people
Jets (Toronto) – W- get the 2nd
at Chiefs – W – why? pretty sure our d’s going to remember Cassell on NE last year and make sure he doesn’t have that success again.
Pats – L – they’re going to be fighting for they’re playoff lives and will need this
at Falcons – W – yup – we’re better
Colts – L – think they’re going to need these last few games to get the division.

whats that 11-5? something like that – give or take a game.

yeah – we’re that good – not great – not going to win a lot in the playoffs – but we can win all these games. there really are no teams I think we don’t have a chance against. not even NE.