Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

[mysticsoto]

He has 8 teams with a worse record than us (including Miami) and 3 teams tied with our record.

We won't be anywhere close to Luck or the 2nd best QB if this pans out to be true...by I thought it was interesting to see. Guess he's not as down on Buffalo this year as he sometimes seems to be...

Of course, any one of our starting Olineman goes down and we easily compete with the Bengals for worst record!!!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/football/nfl/09/05/peter.king.predictions/index.html?xid=cnnbin&hpt=hp_bn10

[JoeMama]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

Please don't channel Count Jauron from beyond the grave. No more 7-9 ever, please.

[djjimkelly]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

anyone with a brain will understand the D is vastly improved

and coach gailey will figure out how to score points

i truly hope fitz takes the next step becuz next offseason it would be nice to truly need O line and thats it

our front 7 transformation is even a bit shocking to me i knew they would improve it but they have done quite the job in 2 offseasons

[The King]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

I'd like to see us squeak out a close win or two. Instead of always being on the wrong side of close games.

[Jan Reimers]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

I agree that our D should be much better, although we will make our share of mistakes because we are still relatively young at some positions.

The O really worries me though, with Fitz throwing to inexperienced receivers, behind the worst O-line in the league.

[OpIv37]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

anyone with a brain will understand the D is vastly improved

and coach gailey will figure out how to score points

i truly hope fitz takes the next step becuz next offseason it would be nice to truly need O line and thats it

our front 7 transformation is even a bit shocking to me i knew they would improve it but they have done quite the job in 2 offseasons

The problem with your scenario is that I don't see how Fitz- or any other QB for that matter- could take the next step behind this OL.

[trapezeus]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

this team has been built without injuries in mind. the bills first 4 games will be fine. it's the next 8 that will define them. and as we all know, when adversity calls, the bills run the other way.

i'm hoping for the best, but i just don't see enough depth on this team to be able to withstand any injuries. and we all know the injuries come.

Hope i'm wrong.

[ServoBillieves]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

The O-line is awful, but it seems there weren't enough other white lineman to bring in to block for Fitzy as upgrades. Still surprised Bell has a spot, could've sworn Chan really wanted the only all white line (bumping Levitre for Rinehart.)

Not that that matters, it just kinda surprises me.

In other news, King is wrong. We're going 19-0.

[Historian]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

Nice to see King still has a sense of humor.

4-12

[Oaf]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

That would be bad man. Playoffs or BUST!! (literally, on the last pt)

[psubills62]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

Out of curiosity, anyone remember what his prediction was for us last year?

[OpIv37]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

The O-line is awful, but it seems there weren't enough other white lineman to bring in to block for Fitzy as upgrades. Still surprised Bell has a spot, could've sworn Chan really wanted the only all white line (bumping Levitre for Rinehart.)

Not that that matters, it just kinda surprises me.

In other news, King is wrong. We're going 19-0.

Um, Levitre is white too.

[justasportsfan]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

The problem with your scenario is that I don't see how Fitz- or any other QB for that matter- could take the next step behind this OL.

Fitz can and will audible knowing what his OL can or can't do. He did it last year. It's not Fitz I'm worried about, it's his back ups.When Brohm came in to play, the OL was a train wreck. Fitz made the OL look better than it was

[OpIv37]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

Of course, any one of our starting Olineman goes down and we easily compete with the Bengals for worst record!!!

You're giving the starters on the OL far too much credit. There won't be much of a drop-off if one of our starters gets injured because they really are no better than their back-ups, with the exception of Wood.

It's what I like to call "Buffalo Bills depth"- our starters would be back-ups on most teams, so there isn't much drop-off between most of them and our actual back-ups.

[Ed]

Re: Peter King says Bills will go 7-9

Out of curiosity, anyone remember what his prediction was for us last year?

I don't know what he predicted for a record, but he had the Bills 31st in ranking before the 2010 season began.