Bills get some divisional help on MNF Eve
by Brian Galliford on Sep 13, 2009 4:34 PM EDT
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PrintThe 2009 NFL regular season got underway on Sunday, and I'll be completely honest - the fact that I have to wait another day for real Buffalo Bills football was unexpectedly irritating. We're now just a hair over a day away from the Bills' Monday Night Football opener in New England; no matter the outcome, however, the Bills have already gotten a degree of help in the division.
Atlanta Falcons 19, Miami Dolphins 7
Miami got their season off on the wrong foot, dropping a 19-7 road loss in Atlanta that wasn't as close as the score indicated. Even though the Dolphins accomplished the difficult task of shutting down star RB Michael Turner (22 carries, 65 yards), their offensive struggles kept them from competing. Chad Pennington threw an interception, lost a fumble and was sacked four times, and TE Anthony Fasano lost an additional two fumbles as the Dolphins - so good in turnover ratio a year ago - start the year -4 in that department.
New York Jets 24, Houston Texans 7
The Jets were everything that new head coach Rex Ryan advertised them as today - tough and aggressive defensively, and tough and creative offensively. Prepare yourselves to hear plenty about rookie QB Mark Sanchez in the next week from media bigwigs, as his NFL debut was impressive. But he will, unfortunately, be made out to be something more than a still-green rookie. Just a heads up. The Jets do, however, have the look of a team that can compete with most any team in the league because of their trench play and their mentality. They're a good football team.
Come tomorrow evening, two AFC East teams will have started their seasons with a win. Time will tell if it's the Patriots or the Bills that join the Jets atop the division.
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I wish the Bills could play like the Jets today. Tough, physical, smack you in the mouth and take some shots down field. The Jets are going to be tough this year.
~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
by Kurupt on Sep 13, 2009 4:38 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Getting to play a disturbingly listless team like the Texans were today (particularly on offense) would help the Bills ‘play like the Jets’.
Of course we could make things more challenging, Lisa, but then the stupider students would be in here complaining, furrowing their brows in a vain attempt to understand the situation--Seymour Skinner
Jets D was tough. They pitched a shutout and looked tough as nails. and That was without Calvin Pace and Shawn Ellis.
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……lets remember it was against the texans…..
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by silverstreak3k on Sep 14, 2009 12:32 AM EDT up reply actions
no Ryan's not dumb
just disturbingly overweight.
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by TheAfghanTwilight on Sep 14, 2009 1:22 AM EDT up reply actions
and loud and obnoxious. At least you can respect Sparano.
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by MattRichWarren on Sep 14, 2009 8:08 AM EDT up reply actions
One game
is not a measuring stick, but I’ll stick with what I said when he was hired: “The Jets got themselves a guy (Rex Ryan) who is going to be a good head coach.” You just knew he was going to make the Jets a lot tougher (literally).
Good to see Miami get thumped, though! Hey, we’re not in last place in the AFC East for at least one day.
I watched the Cleveland game
But these results don’t surprise me. The Dolphins’ record last year was a fluke. They’re not that good a team. Ryan is a good coach and the Jets are going to be much improved. I saw the highlights from that game though and I was surprised at how sloppy Houston’s D looked
not to mention
that slaton was worthless in houston, and the HC decided to throw it 33 times….not good coaching coming out of houston…
Buffalo, that's where it's at baby. - Adam 'Pacman' Jones
The Jets really looked like a very solid football team with a lot of talent on both sides of the football. Their defense is going to carry them a long way, but their offense certainly displayed very encouraging glimpses of brilliance that bode well for the future of Rex Ryan and his protegé, Mark Sanchez.
The Dolphins looked like an overrated football team to me; a team that seriously lacks some star quality at the WR-position (why in God’s merciful name they didn’t address this during the off season is simply mind-boggling to me) and a team, whose defense is pretty average.
I may be getting over my head a bit, but the Jets look like the better football team of the two, in spite of having a rookie HC, a rookie QB and no WR’s worth mentioning (besides Jerricho Cotchery).
by BillsfanfromDenmark on Sep 13, 2009 5:08 PM EDT reply actions
AFC EAST
Miami got exposed today for who they really are. On top of that, Houston against the Jets were flat on both sides of the ball. They are a better team than that. I guess they thought playing against a rookie QB in his first game would be an easy win.
Guess again.
But the Jets are not winning the Super Bowl. Here comes the NY City press bandwagon……
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by SERGEANT MAJOR THOR on Sep 13, 2009 5:19 PM EDT reply actions
Wait, how did the Bills get divisional help??
Atlanta, favored to win, beat Miami. Houston favored to win, lost at home to the Jets. The win over Houston is more important as it’s an AFC win. The loss to Atlanta isn’t as detrimental as an AFC loss.
If anything, the Bills didn’t get divisional help….not that it’ll really matter in the end.
~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
"some" divisional help
Miami losing is some help.
… the Dolphins lost. That is how they got divisional help.
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by Brian Galliford on Sep 13, 2009 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions
but the Jets won…
~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
negative nancy!
phins lose! aaaannnnd i dont think the jets were all that awesome, i think it was more the texans laying a fat egg on both sides of the ball.
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by silverstreak3k on Sep 13, 2009 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed Silver, Houston looked putrid out there, I mean rank smelling bad
I cannot believe that this is the same team that did so well last year at the tail end of the season.
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LOL OK. So, they only get divisional help if ALL THREE other teams lose?! I don’t get that at all!
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by Brian Galliford on Sep 13, 2009 7:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Well I figure that since both were favored to lose and one of them ended up winning that we didn’t exactly get much help. Oh well
~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
by Kurupt on Sep 13, 2009 7:18 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I guess I just look at things in a much more cut-and-dry manner than y’all. Sorry :)
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by Brian Galliford on Sep 13, 2009 8:18 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah but it was against a NFC team
so it mattered very seldom.
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by dolphinsinbuffalo on Sep 14, 2009 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions
????
% think kurupts right brian the title of the article is misleading but I love evrything else on the site your entitled to a couple goofs
There is a I in Bills!
How is it misleading? They got some help, didn’t they?
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by Brian Galliford on Sep 13, 2009 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions
You mean we’re not guaranteed a playoff spot, Brian? WTF?!
by Dr. Brackish Okun on Sep 13, 2009 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions
For the record
He didn’t say that the Bills get divisional help, or Bills get amazing amounts of divisional help, or HOLY CRAP, BILLS WIN DIVISION AFTER WEEK 1!
Let’s just wait for tomorrow. I think we all officially have Bills cabin fever when we are debating whether one team winning and one team losing is some divisional help!
by bluecollarbuffalo on Sep 13, 2009 8:25 PM EDT up reply actions
FYI
The countdown we’ve been looking at since April’s draft is under 24 hours. I am jacked!!!!
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The jets are a good football team and the dolphins aren't.*
*This is an enormous over-reaction to one week’s worth of football. Remember what we felt like four weeks into last season.
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Yeah cant wait for the verbal love fest for Sanchez....
sure he’s a california guy and all…….(funny thing I just realized, 3 outta the 4 AFC East starting QB’s are from California haha)
but damn I dont want to hear about the guy 24/7 on espn.
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by norcaliangelsfan on Sep 14, 2009 12:00 AM EDT reply actions
i just want to see the bills bring it and leave everything on the field.win or lose i just want to see them compete well.want them to win,but if we lose dont want to look as bad as we did last year against them.
keith_b
or as bad as we've looked since the Lawyer Milloy game...
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Pack it up - Pack it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The season is over fellas – and it hasn’t even started. Juaron won’t be here next year and we ae looking at 2-14 right in the face. Our o-line SUCKS and so does our d-line. We won’t amass many sacks and Trent won’t have a very good year.
They cut Rhodes = REALLY DUMB
They cut Walker = REALLY DUMB (put him back at RT and Butler to guard)
Fired Schonert = A BIG EXCUSE
2-14 you heard it here first – nobody wants to be A PLAYER LET ALONE A FAN!
The time to deliver is now and if you fail to do so you will no doubt witness the consequences first hand.
Believe me when I say that we did NOT hear 2-14 from you first. I’m not sure if you’ve been visiting Mars on a late-summer vacation; suffice it to say that, as far as the 2-4 BS negativity – that s$#% is everywhere.
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by Brian Galliford on Sep 14, 2009 6:43 AM EDT up reply actions
Juaron
Paging Antonio Banderas.
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by MattRichWarren on Sep 14, 2009 8:09 AM EDT up reply actions
I wonder when people are going to realize
Matt Schaub is not a good QB.
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by TheAfghanTwilight on Sep 14, 2009 1:23 AM EDT reply actions
He is an OK QB to have IF he gets the support he needs from the oline and running game
If he is getting smacked around like he was by the Jets, he just folds, I think its due to his injury history messing with his head….
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