You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

[Mitchy moo]

Our schedule:

2007 opponents:
Home: Bengals, Cowboys, Dolphins, Giants, Jets, Patriots, Ravens, Broncos
Away: Browns, Dolphins, Eagles, Jets, Patriots, Redskins, Steelers, Jaguars

Look at this nightmare, almost half of the game we're played against teams making the playoffs & 3 games against the #1 seeds in each conference. 2 of the teams we played are of 4 left that have a chance of winning it all.

[TacklingDummy]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

The only team we beat who finished with a winning record is when Trent led us to a win against the Redskins.

The Bills record is inflated by beating terrible teams like Miami, Jets, and Ravens.

[DMBcrew36]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

The only team we beat who finished with a winning record is when Trent led us to a win against the Redskins.

The Bills record is inflated by beating terrible teams like Miami, Jets, and Ravens.

This is true. But you could then say that every team has an inflated record. Everyone plays poor teams and has mediochre teams in their division.

Having watched every game, I would say that 7-9 is fair.

[yordad]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

You add up the wins and losses for every team we played. Then you can figure win %. It is just above .500. No biggy.

[TacklingDummy]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

This is true. But you could then say that every team has an inflated record. Everyone plays poor teams and has mediochre teams in their division.

Having watched every game, I would say that 7-9 is fair.

Agreed, but good teams also have victories against other teams that were good. 7-9 is fair. We should have been 9-7. Injuries, last minute FGs, ineffective offense, poor pass rush, poor run stopping cost us a couple of games.

Buffalo beat a Washington team who just went through the Taylor tragedy.

[Mr. Miyagi]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

The AFC East definitely has one of the toughest schedules this year. Yes the Patriots went 16-0 but dude they're in a league of their own. There's no wonder the Dolphins and the Jets combined 5-32. We actually did well by winning 7 games.

[Mitchy moo]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

The AFC East definitely has one of the toughest schedules this year. Yes the Patriots went 16-0 but dude they're in a league of their own. There's no wonder the Dolphins and the Jets combined 5-32. We actually did well by winning 7 games.

With alot easier schedule, next year looks even better.

[mybills]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

besides the 15 injuries??

musical qb's & ******ed coaching.

[Typ0]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

we were more like a 4 - 12 team with really good coaching that kept us in games and won.

[DMBcrew36]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

we were more like a 4 - 12 team with really good coaching that kept us in games and won.

That's a very interesting thought. Jauron does have the ability to keep the Bills in games through his coaching and conservatism. I think the playcalling on offense sometimes hindered the Bills with conservatism, too, though.

I guess they could have been 4-12. They may have also been 9-7 with a bounce or two the other way. So 7-9 seems right to me with a law of averages.

[OpIv37]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

Our schedule:

2007 opponents:
Home: Bengals, Cowboys, Dolphins, Giants, Jets, Patriots, Ravens, Broncos
Away: Browns, Dolphins, Eagles, Jets, Patriots, Redskins, Steelers, Jaguars

Look at this nightmare, almost half of the game we're played against teams making the playoffs & 3 games against the #1 seeds in each conference. 2 of the teams we played are of 4 left that have a chance of winning it all.

you completely left out the 5 games against the 1-15 Dolphins, the 4-12 Jets, and the 5-11 Ravens (that finished 1-10).

In the end, there are teams on either end skewing the results and it evens out.

Oh, btw, we beat exactly ONE of those playoff teams- the Skins- and we only did it because they had about the most stressful week in the history of pro football leading up to the game.

[Nighthawk]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

The cold, hard fact is that this team isn't good enough, nor is the coaching good enough.

[DMBcrew36]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

The cold, hard fact is that this team isn't good enough, nor is the coaching good enough.

Nope. Not even close, except in special teams. At least we have one positive area of play.

[Devin]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

You can point to beating the loosing teams but thats a catch 22 with bills fans. We suck cause we only beat bad teams, but wed suck even more if we didnt. In large part we beat the teams we should have. Simple as that.

Say what you will, we beat the skins. Circumstance or not.

We beat the teams we should have and as TD said are a few plays from 9-7.

This team isnt a contender by any stretch, but for the most part they played above themselves. Whether that was a result of coaching or not can be argued. As it likely will all offseason.

[yordad]

Re: You know what made this past season so hard, besides the 15 injuries??

The Bills won 7 games against teams that won 8.25 games on average. So.... basically, being just below average, while playing just above average teams = pretty average, IMO.

As average as they were though, they could have challenged for the NFC South and NFC West, and probably won either healthy. Especially with adequate offensive coaching.