Buffalo Bills Playoff Picture: They're Still Alive

But anything more than that, were going to need help, a lot of it.

Ahhh!!!!

this team is not done, what a lucky break we got with Cinci, Baltimore, San Diego and New York losing.

This team needs to finish 5-2. It is doable. We were 5-3 in the first half of the year with a tougher schedule. We just put up our first of 3 allowable losses and it was outside the conference, could have been much worse.

To all those ready to jump, like all those proclaiming our 3-0 start was the “baby”, just settle in and hang on. The highs were not the “baby” (I thought the baby meant results not a winning streak) and these last two losses dont mean we are worse than the Dolphins.

We are blessed to have 2 divisional games back to back right now. Win them both we are looking at 3-1 in the division and a 7-4 record. Its go time.

“Hey, what was all that ‘One in Millon talk’??”

and let the chips fall

sportsclubstats.com has our playoff chances at 65% if we go 5-2 and 10% with 4-3, although I’m sure those numbers would change depending on if we’re able to take care of the upcoming divisional games.

Yes it is!

It gives me some hope that the Bills still have a chance to turn this thing around if they get serious. I hope these injuries don’t start adding up now.

If we can put together 5 more wins, that is. I’m starting to wonder if 10-6 can win this division…let alone the wild card.

That game against the Jets in a few weeks is crucial. I’m hoping they don’t look past the Dolphins.

I think we will beat Miami (H), Denver (H), Tennessee (H), and Miami (A) this week. We might get hot, we might get cold, somewhere in there to alter that up or down. But I think that at this point, 9-7 is a reasonable prediction for this, Chix’s second season.

Firstly, let’s not give the Bills too much criticism. Our four losses have come to the Bengals (7-3), Jets (5-4), Cowboys (5-4), and Giants (6-3). That means our 4 losses are to teams with a combined record of 23-14, or 622. We’re also 4-1 at home, giving us a good shot against already beatable Miami, Tennessee, and Denver. We’ve also seen that Buffalo is very capable of playing very good clutch football against good teams. All this to conclude that the Bills SHOULD beat these four teams.

Secondly, let’s not give the Bills too much credit. Our five victories have been against KC (4-5), Oakland (5-4), New England (6-3), Philadelphia (3-6), and Washington (3-6), in that order. A combined record of 21-24, or .467. Buffalo’s offense has shown signs of, while not becoming helpless, becoming predictable. NFL defenses have begun to catch on to the spread offense, and this has resulted in Buffalo scoring less than 14 ppg in the last 3 games as opposed to 25ppg in the three games before that.

Chan chose to live and die with the spread.

So death by the spread it is.

Any team that can hold up our receivers at the line of scrimmage for 2 seconds can shutdown this offense.

Time for Buddy and Chan to realize we need a fullback that is a good lead blocker that can catch passes and can run for short yardage, another tight end who can catch and block and find a way to teach Fitz how to run a decent play action pass from under center as well as getting him to have semi acceptable footwork from under center, until then, we are going nowhere, this offense has been exposed. The smoke and mirrors won’t work anymore.

….based on our record, number of winnable games left and the other teams we’d be fighting with for a playoff spot. Unfortunately, it’s hard to imagine this team, playing as bad as they have, having any real shot at winning 5 or 6 more games. With an offensive gameplan that has become predictable and easy to shut down and one of the worst defenses in the NFL, the only shot the Bills have is if Ryan Fitzpatrick gets really, really, really hot. I’m not banking on that happening, that’s for sure, but I’d love to see a competitive second half of the season with some exciting games and hopefully a run over the next few weeks to keep us in it….

We are only a game out of the division lead. With 7 weeks to go, ANYthing can happen, and it probably will. Neither the Pats nor the Jets are as good as they have been in years past, while we are better. Buddy and Chan have been trying to build a team that can compete in December and January. Let’s see what happen, there’s way too much time left to rule out the division crown, much less the playoffs.