Best Team of the last 13 Years.

[ServoBillieves]

No playoffs, and we're all dealing with the failures of the regime(s), but honestly which is the only team that gave you sincere hope?

'08 on this end. Trent had the arm, we had Lee and Sco, Jackson and Lynch (that is insane), we had a good line, our D had Poz/McGee/McLovin/Stroud/Kwill/Kelsay/et cetera. How could that not turn in to success? Miserable ownership.

Meanwhile, watch this video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlesjDoRsWo

So many pieces in even Schouman and Fine, and we couldn't get them the ball? Just too many sad decisions by Ralph. Let me know your thoughts.

[Dr. Lecter]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

No doubt the year with Bledsoe, Henry, Moulds and Price tearing it up. That was a fantastic offense for about 10 games.

[MTBillsFan]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

Servo-
I have to agree that the 08 team was pretty good. Although the year (03?) we lost to Pittsburgh's 3rd stringers, I'd say they were better.

[ServoBillieves]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

Servo-
I have to agree that the 08 team was pretty good. Although the year (03?) we lost to Pittsburgh's 3rd stringers, I'd say they were better.

Willie Parker... I had to hear that incessantly while I lived in PA.

[Ginger Vitis]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

2004.. Onl y Bills team in the last 13 years to win at least 9 games and be in wild card contention the last game of the season

[The King]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

Pittsburgh was 15-1 that year. A lot of those back-ups took on leading roles in their super bowl run the next year.

[Pinkerton Security]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

No doubt the year with Bledsoe, Henry, Moulds and Price tearing it up. That was a fantastic offense for about 10 games.

x2

[mjt328]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

2003. No doubt.

As a team, we had improved the previous year from 3-13 to 8-8. Our talent level was very good on both sides of the ball.

Drew Bledsoe had played very well his first year with us and was coming off a Pro Bowl season. The QB position was finally set again. Not to mention, Bledsoe was surrounded by Travis Henry and Eric Moulds. We had two young promising tackles in Mike Williams and Jonas Jennings, along with stud Ruben Brown. On defense, Donahoe had just gone on a spending spree and added Takeo Spikes, Sam Adams and Jeff Posey - to pair with Pat Williams, London Fletcher, Aaron Schobel, Antoine Winfield and Nate Clements. Right before the season, we also grabbed Lawyer Milloy.

I was fully expecting a return to the playoffs. When the team shot out of the gate and stomped New England (33-0 if I recall), I immediately thought we would contend for the Super Bowl.

We haven't had a squad even CLOSE to that talent level in a decade, and they only finished 6-10. I know the offensive line turned out to be horrific, but I'll never understand how that squad underachieved so bad with so many good players.

[Pinkerton Security]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

2003. No doubt.

As a team, we had improved the previous year from 3-13 to 8-8. Our talent level was very good on both sides of the ball.

Drew Bledsoe had played very well his first year with us and was coming off a Pro Bowl season. The QB position was finally set again. Not to mention, Bledsoe was surrounded by Travis Henry and Eric Moulds. We had two young promising tackles in Mike Williams and Jonas Jennings, along with stud Ruben Brown. On defense, Donahoe had just gone on a spending spree and added Takeo Spikes, Sam Adams and Jeff Posey - to pair with Pat Williams, London Fletcher, Aaron Schobel, Antoine Winfield and Nate Clements. Right before the season, we also grabbed Lawyer Milloy.

I was fully expecting a return to the playoffs. When the team shot out of the gate and stomped New England (33-0 if I recall), I immediately thought we would contend for the Super Bowl.

We haven't had a squad even CLOSE to that talent level in a decade, and they only finished 6-10. I know the offensive line turned out to be horrific, but I'll never understand how that squad underachieved so bad with so many good players.

That Pats game is probably the most fun Bills game I've attended and I probably only had about 2 beers lol.

[PTI]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

Willie Parker... I had to hear that incessantly while I lived in PA.

Lindell missed a pretty easy FG and the game went downhill after that.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

2003. No doubt.

As a team, we had improved the previous year from 3-13 to 8-8. Our talent level was very good on both sides of the ball.

Drew Bledsoe had played very well his first year with us and was coming off a Pro Bowl season. The QB position was finally set again. Not to mention, Bledsoe was surrounded by Travis Henry and Eric Moulds. We had two young promising tackles in Mike Williams and Jonas Jennings, along with stud Ruben Brown. On defense, Donahoe had just gone on a spending spree and added Takeo Spikes, Sam Adams and Jeff Posey - to pair with Pat Williams, London Fletcher, Aaron Schobel, Antoine Winfield and Nate Clements. Right before the season, we also grabbed Lawyer Milloy.

I was fully expecting a return to the playoffs. When the team shot out of the gate and stomped New England (33-0 if I recall), I immediately thought we would contend for the Super Bowl.

We haven't had a squad even CLOSE to that talent level in a decade, and they only finished 6-10. I know the offensive line turned out to be horrific, but I'll never understand how that squad underachieved so bad with so many good players.

The QB position is what let us down that year. When the OL collapsed, Bledsoy simple couldn't do jack all for most of the year. Seriously, we had a Top 5 defense and a nearly 1400 yard rusher and could only manage six wins? Bledsoe was sacked almost 50 times! 50!

That was also the year Donahoe got too cute for his own good and drafted a halfback with a blown knee in the first round over guys like Dallas Clark and Nnamdi Asomugha

[ThunderGun]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

The QB position is what let us down that year. When the OL collapsed, Bledsoy simple couldn't do jack all for most of the year. Seriously, we had a Top 5 defense and a nearly 1400 yard rusher and could only manage six wins? Bledsoe was sacked almost 50 times! 50!

That was also the year Donahoe got too cute for his own good and drafted a halfback with a blown knee in the first round over guys like Dallas Clark and Nnamdi Asomugha

I would say that the OLine is what let us down. It wasn't just Bledsoe. How many times did Travis Henry get swarmed in the backfield as soon as he received the handoff? Our interior OLine was complete and utter garbage. Teams just brought a little heat up the middle every play, and we could barely get the snap off.

Sad thing is, it was still another 6 years before we drafted a lineman before the 5th round (and the only 5th rounder was Brad Butler, who looked really good, and then promptly retired).

[Bill Cody]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

The QB position is what let us down that year. When the OL collapsed, Bledsoy simple couldn't do jack all for most of the year. Seriously, we had a Top 5 defense and a nearly 1400 yard rusher and could only manage six wins? Bledsoe was sacked almost 50 times! 50!

That was also the year Donahoe got too cute for his own good and drafted a halfback with a blown knee in the first round over guys like Dallas Clark and Nnamdi Asomugha

The problem was the OL not Bledsoe. I am not a letter writer, never sent one to a GM before or since but I was so pissed at the pile of **** we were fielding at OL that I wrote TD about it- actually exchanged several notes back and forth. I honestly think that team was 2 or 3 good OL players away from a championship.

[The King]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

It was a combination of the two. Bledsoe was our QB, we knew he wasnt mobile, but the line was never built up to help him compensate for that. We kept drafting receivers, rb's and db's and ignored the line. And Bledsoe could not adjust, he needed to check down far more than he did. He trusted his arm too much and threw it 20 yards down field consistently that's part of why he was getting killed.

But the Oline killed the Bills in the Pitt game, Bledsoe got killed.

If we had built a proper line for his skill set things would've ended up a little differently I think.

[BillsFever21]

Re: Best Team of the last 13 Years.

No playoffs, and we're all dealing with the failures of the regime(s), but honestly which is the only team that gave you sincere hope?

'08 on this end. Trent had the arm, we had Lee and Sco, Jackson and Lynch (that is insane), we had a good line, our D had Poz/McGee/McLovin/Stroud/Kwill/Kelsay/et cetera. How could that not turn in to success? Miserable ownership.

Meanwhile, watch this video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlesjDoRsWo

So many pieces in even Schouman and Fine, and we couldn't get them the ball? Just too many sad decisions by Ralph. Let me know your thoughts.

It didn't matter what weapons we had when we had a QB in Trent Edwards who was a scared little girl in the pocket and was afraid to even attempt a pass where the receiver was covered or more then 10 yards down the field. Bad coaching also played a part in it but an offense that couldn't give us anything was the biggest reason. Edwards was terrible and shouldn't have lasted as long as he did.