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I'm not sure if it was Matt Cassel or Kevin Faulk who said it in an interview on the field immediately after the Pats-Jets game, but, when asked how the Pats are approaching the rest of the season without Tom Brady, this is what the Pats' player said:
"We want to win all of the games that we should win and split the rest."
While we can argue about which games remaining on the Bills' schedule are games that the Bills should win, there are certainly a number that fall into that category. If the Bills can repeat what they did last season when they won all of the games that they played against teams that finished with a worse record than they did--in short, win all of the games that they should win--and get a split against the rest (something that they were not able to do last season when Washington was the only playoff team that they beat), they will be in a very good position to make the playoffs. And, perhaps even do some damage once they get there.
It won't be easy for the Bills to accomplish this, but these first two games of the season have shown that, if they can stay reasonably healthy, this team certainly has the capacity to achieve this goal.
What I, personally, like about this approach is that it gives value to every game played against inferior teams (if the goal is to win every game that the team should win, then every one of those games is important), while not conceding defeat in any of the "tougher" games (a team has to play hard and well in every one of these games in order to get a split overall because not every game will go their way). Every game is important and has a role in the overall scheme of trying to achieve the goal of getting to the playoffs.
The Bills are still a pretty young team and they can't afford to let up or concede any game this season. As Dick Jauron put it in his press conference after the game in Jacksonville, they "have a chance to be a decent team" this season! (Don't tell me that the guy doesn't have a sense of perspective after all of his years in the NFL--it's just that he hides it VERY well!) IMHO, taking an approach like this to the rest of the season certainly wouldn't hurt their efforts to reach that goal--even if it was originally enunciated by a Pats player.
"We want to win all of the games that we should win and split the rest."
While we can argue about which games remaining on the Bills' schedule are games that the Bills should win, there are certainly a number that fall into that category. If the Bills can repeat what they did last season when they won all of the games that they played against teams that finished with a worse record than they did--in short, win all of the games that they should win--and get a split against the rest (something that they were not able to do last season when Washington was the only playoff team that they beat), they will be in a very good position to make the playoffs. And, perhaps even do some damage once they get there.
It won't be easy for the Bills to accomplish this, but these first two games of the season have shown that, if they can stay reasonably healthy, this team certainly has the capacity to achieve this goal.
What I, personally, like about this approach is that it gives value to every game played against inferior teams (if the goal is to win every game that the team should win, then every one of those games is important), while not conceding defeat in any of the "tougher" games (a team has to play hard and well in every one of these games in order to get a split overall because not every game will go their way). Every game is important and has a role in the overall scheme of trying to achieve the goal of getting to the playoffs.
The Bills are still a pretty young team and they can't afford to let up or concede any game this season. As Dick Jauron put it in his press conference after the game in Jacksonville, they "have a chance to be a decent team" this season! (Don't tell me that the guy doesn't have a sense of perspective after all of his years in the NFL--it's just that he hides it VERY well!) IMHO, taking an approach like this to the rest of the season certainly wouldn't hurt their efforts to reach that goal--even if it was originally enunciated by a Pats player.
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