Even the genius Belichick himself said that you don't know what kind of team you have until the first 4 games.
Why?
NFL teams may not change philosophy one year to the next, but they change plays a great deal. The Bills are already doing this - WGR's Edwards interview had him saying that he has sat down with the Turk, Van Pelt, Kugs a couple of hours each day for the past two weeks going over their playbook. It's a common practice. Over 90% of the plays are in every team's playbook in one form or another. It's the little tweaking, the refined attacking point that make them look different, sometime to untrained eyes to be a total different play.
You have different players, so the execution can be very different. The Bills will have a different LG and C on OL. How they perform can mean a world of difference but you just don't know until you have some game film to study. Likewise some ineffective plays will be changed or thrown out all together. What about TO? What kind of routes they have him to run? You just don't know.
Likewise, NE has signed a lot of FAs so you don't know how they fit into their scheme. You may assume Brady to pick up where he left off, but no one can be sure after a year off and a couple of surgeries later.
The history bears this out, too. Week 1 seems to have more unpredictable results than any other week. For the Bills, obviously inferior to the Pats in almost all areas, Week 1 is their best chance to steal a game from the Pats.
Why?
NFL teams may not change philosophy one year to the next, but they change plays a great deal. The Bills are already doing this - WGR's Edwards interview had him saying that he has sat down with the Turk, Van Pelt, Kugs a couple of hours each day for the past two weeks going over their playbook. It's a common practice. Over 90% of the plays are in every team's playbook in one form or another. It's the little tweaking, the refined attacking point that make them look different, sometime to untrained eyes to be a total different play.
You have different players, so the execution can be very different. The Bills will have a different LG and C on OL. How they perform can mean a world of difference but you just don't know until you have some game film to study. Likewise some ineffective plays will be changed or thrown out all together. What about TO? What kind of routes they have him to run? You just don't know.
Likewise, NE has signed a lot of FAs so you don't know how they fit into their scheme. You may assume Brady to pick up where he left off, but no one can be sure after a year off and a couple of surgeries later.
The history bears this out, too. Week 1 seems to have more unpredictable results than any other week. For the Bills, obviously inferior to the Pats in almost all areas, Week 1 is their best chance to steal a game from the Pats.
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