Patriots at. Bills

[BillsFever]

Vote for who you think will win each game. Just don't be a homer and pick the Bills to win every game, and the rest of the AFCE to lose every game

I will post a weekly game each day till we determine the winner of the AFCE.

We'll start off with our own Buffalo Bills.

[BillsFever]

Sadly, I pick the Patriots.

[Will McGahee Fast]

The Bills will never lose another game ever.

[Jan Reimers]

The Bills will eat the Brady Bunch for lunch.

[ryven]

with our new team billy wont have enough time to plan for us.

So my pick is the bills win.

[BFBills]

yah...i pick pats also....

[justasportsfan]

I think Lebeau can figure out the screen pass. the bills win @ home.

[Valerie]

I am going with the Bills. Because I think they know just how important this game is. Plus, I'll be at that game and I'm good luck.:)

[imbondz]

Originally posted by Jaded 7
Plus, I'll be at that game and I'm good luck.:)

I am too. i've never seen the Bills lose at home.

[TedMock]

Buffalo. They're fired up. I think the Pats win game two.

[WG]

IMO there's no way we lose this game unless Gilbride screws it up!!

N.E. will be this year's Miami for us! We'll take two. They won't be able to run the ball effectively which enabled them to win last year. Brady won't be able to do it v. a secondary that's gonna have a tone of help. Add in the fact that the Pat WRs all hail from Munchkinland as of now and it doesn't get pretty!

Bills take two from N.E. this year! If we struggle v. the AFCE it'll be v. the Jets and Phins. I don't care what the media says, the Pats can't live on D alone and their O is gonna be near the bottom this year w/ Smith as their primary ball carrier. The one caveat to this is if another RB emerges to replace Smith and is significantly better, very significantly. Even Drew won't be able to screw this one up!

[WG]

I also hope that a lot of the same Pats fans make the trek to Buffalo to see the Pats' arses get kicked as well! That'll be a sweet payback for last year's invasion. Perhaps it'll keep them outta here for a number of years too!

[WG]

Originally posted by BillsFever
Vote for who you think will win each game. Just don't be a homer and pick the Bills to win every game, and the rest of the AFCE to lose every game

Yeah right!



LOL

[Buckets]

The Bills let the Pats "D" control the flow of the ofense last season. If our "O" can force their "D" to react instead of the other way around we should win.

[WG]

Yeah, but they're gonna have to score too! Last year we handed them points like it was Christmas. As long as we don't have the TOs again, HELLO Drew!, then we should be fine. It should be a tight defensive matchup just as many games were last year. But if we set them up at our 9 YL, toss INTs inside the red zone just before we are about to put the ball in the EZ, that is difficult to overcome and wasn't caused by the Pat D, it was caused by Drew's completely bumbling INTs!

So again, if the Pats have to earn their points, they won't put up more than 17 IMO. Lucky if that w/ our D now. But if we constantly set them up at midfield, the 10 YL, and take away our own scoring opps by ourselves, then the game becomes just that much more difficult to log as a win, eh.

We credit the Pat D who played well, but it was our TOs, more specifically the INTs that made the difference last year. If N.E. has to work from a long field, IMO they have no chance w/ the offense they have. They can shut us down, which for us will mean holding us to 17 or so points, but they themselves will still have to put more up than that, and that's if they do hold us to 17 which I'm not sure they will w/o our bumbling blunders!

I just don't see the Pat O the way it now is being anything other than a bottom 10 O this year. Smith is finished as an effective F/T ball carrier, their WRs at last check were all 5'10" or smaller, and they've done precious little to upgrade their O this offseason.

You need a D to win, but you also need some O, especially against teams w/ an equal, or thereabouts, D.

So again, just like last year, the Pats won't win this w/o significant bumbling by Gilbride and some Christmas goodies from Drew!!! Period! That's the way it was last year, we've improved on D, our O is essentially the same, the Pats have regressed on O due largely to age, and while their D may have improved, it will only have improved marginally IMO. They were very good last year.

Bottom line: If we run the ball effectively we'll win. If not, for whatever reason, and Drew has to throw the ball, my money will go on Bellichick for knowing how to rattle Drew into making the errors that he made all last year, over Drew for being able to play a game by throwing the ball 35+ times v. a D as good as the Pats' D w/o tossing some very key INTs to set up the Pats or stall our drives. Last season supports my observations on this!

[WG]

P.S. If we were to lose this game for the same reasons as last season, if I were GW, I would instantly fire Gilbride.

[SABURZFAN]

i was at a casino(Arizona Charlie's on Boulder Highway) and they had the opening line for week 1.they had the BILLS as a 3 point favorite.

[WG]

I'd lay the 3 in a NY second...

I'll predict that game will be the opposite of last year;

27-16 Bills

[Bledsoe2Henry]

I predict Travis Henry will expose their weak DL and will run all over the place. Bledsoe will throw a couple TDs and Henry will run for 2. Dick LeBeau will use blitzes to stop the screen pass and confuse the Patriots offense. Big Sam will easily stop Antowain Smith from running all over the Bills like he usually does. Bills win 28-17!

[BillsNYC]

i take the Pats. GW has not yet proven to me he can outcoach Bellichek. I hope I'm wrong.