Bills playing tied and/or with the lead

[patmoran2006]

Just looked up some stuff.. Here's a pretty interesting stat for everyone to see.

So far this year the Bills have either been tied or had the lead for 321 minutes (and 17 seconds).

Conversely, they've had to play from behind for only 98 minutes (and 43 seconds)

In our wins vs NY (twice) and Baltimore we never trailed. IN losses to Denver and Dallas we never trailed until the final horn.

Against Pittsburgh we never lead and only played tied for 8:01... Even in the disaster at NE, we spent almost a quarter of the game at least tied, 7:52 tied and actually spent 5:44 with a 7-3 lead.

The point I guess is LITERALLY, a couple of horrible coaching decisions and bad execution by a few guys on a couple of plays is the difference between this team being a playoff contender and having a losing record. We've been in the lead or tied for 74.6% of the game clock this year.

[Slim]

Re: Bills playing tied and/or with the lead

Just looked up some stuff.. Here's a pretty interesting stat for everyone to see.

So far this year the Bills have either been tied or had the lead for 321 minutes (and 17 seconds).

Conversely, they've had to play from behind for only 98 minutes (and 43 seconds)

In our wins vs NY (twice) and Baltimore we never trailed. IN losses to Denver and Dallas we never trailed until the final horn.

Against Pittsburgh we never lead and only played tied for 8:01... Even in the disaster at NE, we spent almost a quarter of the game at least tied, 7:52 tied and actually spent 5:44 with a 7-3 lead.

The point I guess is LITERALLY, a couple of horrible coaching decisions and bad execution by a few guys on a couple of plays is the difference between this team being a playoff contender and having a losing record. We've been in the lead or tied for 74.6% of the game clock this year.

Thats a pretty interesting stat.

[Crisis]

Re: Bills playing tied and/or with the lead

Don't remind me....

[colin]

Re: Bills playing tied and/or with the lead

pat,

like your posts but think you are a bit hard on the coaches.

i don't like the OC, but other than that we have a pretty good staff IMO.

getting a team to play hard with what we have been through is a good result

[Don't Panic]

Re: Bills playing tied and/or with the lead

What that means, especially if you look at our PF/PA for the season, is that we either get blown out or play the game tight (2 scores or less). It's amazing to think that we'd be 5-2 if you could take away the last 10 seconds of 2 of our games... amazing. At the same time, we are no where near the class of NE, Pit, Indy, etc. Making the playoffs this year would be a great moral victory, but our odds of winning more than a game would be slim to none. Bottom line... it's just good to see us winning football games again.

[YardRat]

Re: Bills playing tied and/or with the lead

That is impressive.

[raphael120]

Re: Bills playing tied and/or with the lead

I think it's all well and good, but if we want a team to actually go to the playoffs and be anything better than .500, we're going to have to do a lot more than just play conservative and hope our defense bails us out all the time against sub par opponents.

[don137]

Re: Bills playing tied and/or with the lead

Factoring in the injuries and the offensive woes this team has played very respectable considering the bad calls during the game. This team is underrated and is starting to finish the job.

[Ebenezer]

Re: Bills playing tied and/or with the lead

I think it's all well and good, but if we want a team to actually go to the playoffs and be anything better than .500, we're going to have to do a lot more than just play conservative and hope our defense bails us out all the time against sub par opponents.

they're playing with the talent (and injuries) they have...this team has a long way to go...TD left this team in more of a mess than we think.

[G. Host]

Re: Bills playing tied and/or with the lead

pat,

like your posts but think you are a bit hard on the coaches.

i don't like the OC, but other than that we have a pretty good staff IMO.

getting a team to play hard with what we have been through is a good result

The Offensive Quality Control Coach (Van Pelt) needs to start showing Fairchild what bad patterns he is using and how to correct it.

From what I have heard from people who know front office Lester has been doing phenomenal work diagnosing opposing offenses and how to attack them.

[raphael120]

Re: Bills playing tied and/or with the lead

they're playing with the talent (and injuries) they have...this team has a long way to go...TD left this team in more of a mess than we think.

No, TD left us in a huge mess, sure.

but the current regime is taking 1 step forward and 3 steps back all the time.

Dockery...has he played up to his monster contract? Not really.
We had JP...now we regress to Edwards.
Triplett, Royal, Price, Bowen, Nall, (insert Free Agent here)...theyre allw astes of money at this point...

Marv has done some good things, but I think he's done more to hurt than to really help it. Fairchild has shown nothing, Jauron neither. I guarantee we wont do anything more than get a Wild Card and lose with Jauron.