Forward Progress

I agree with this.

I liked the way we protected the lead last week and milked the clock to seal the win. I want to get to the point where we can protect a lead where we know we're running the ball and they know we're running the ball and we consistently generate first downs and there's nothing they can do to stop us. Our O-line isn't at the level for us to win this way. FP

Here are my keys to the game: Defence 1. Disrupt Brady - pressure up the middle where our DT's should wreck havoc on the interior of their O-line. 2. Jam the Recievers/TE's at the line of scrimmage to mess the timing of their routes. We know the ball is coming out fast from Brady. 3. Neutralize Gronk - easier said than done, but I'm sure Rex has a plan. 4. No personal foul 15 yard penalties. We can't afford to away yards after the whistle. Offence 1. Stay Balanced and take what the defence gives us. I'm not expecting to run over NE the way that Pittsburgh did. In that game, NE played with 5 DB's most of the time to limit Pittsburgh's passing attack. We are built to run or pass with such a nice array of speedy offensive weapons. I think we will see pretty close to 50/50 pass/run offence like Roman did in SF this weekend. I don't think we get to milk a 24-point lead for the last 20 minutes of the game this week. 2. Taylor continues to show what he's shown in a small sample size of play. He's had strong poise in the pocket and has used his legs to make something out of nothing. I think we'll see one or two designed runs this week that we didn't see last week. 3. Using more of the playbook that no one has seen yet. We still have the advantage of surprise with a new playbook and Roman's system with Buffalo's personnel. Once we started protecting our lead last week, it looked like a preseason vanilla offence to guard our secrets. Belichek is the best at gaining an advantage from tape study and this week, his volume of tape to study is pretty slim. 4. Better O-Line play without the holding calls. I don't know who will win this week, but this game feels different. In the past, I'm just hoping get a few breaks our way to beat a better team. This year, it's two good teams going head-to-head - Sunday can't come soon enough. FP

What I really want is to beat the Pats** three times this year, including a win at home in the playoffs. Since we're playing would you rather, I would rather win now, because losing now could equate to the Pats** unleashing the perfect game plan to beat us for the whole league to copy. It's better if that happens later in the year so fewer teams can benefit from it. FP

I love that attitude. If only Aaron can get revenge we all want without 15-yard penalties.

I clearly still suffer the lingering effects of broken dreams over the years. I came late on Sunday afternoon to watch the game (tape delayed). My son was watching the game live, so I was careful not learn the score and ran to the basement to watch the game. My son is a diehard Bill's fan like me and he didn't look happy, so I wasn't very hopeful. I watched the first three quarters waiting the for the wheels to fall off, just wondering what would go wrong this time. At 24-0, I felt pretty good, but I still couldn't shake that bad feeling. It turns out my son was hiding his elation because he knew I wouldn't want the surprise ruined. Can anyone recommend a good councellor? In my head I see a team that is built to win with dominating defence and an improved and apparently capable offence. Too many traumatic Sundays over the past 15 years have taken their toll.

I expect the New England Defence priority will be to stop the run, while containing Tyrod. I trust TT throwing the ball in this situation more than I trust our O-Line to create holes against their front 7. I think we can have success running to the edges with Shady, since the Pats could not control the edge against the Steelers, but running up the middle will be tough.

I choked when I read that too. This is from the same guy that predicted a 5-win season for us. His success rate this week in picking games straight up was only 8-8, tied with the success rate of using a coin toss and the worst of all the CBS "experts." Since his prediction capabilities can't be wrong, he writes an article this morning not to overreact to week 1 results because week 1 doesn't mean much. (Link posted earlier in this thread) I agree that it's easy to overreact based on one great game, but Prisco is so arrogant when he talks and he doesn't have a record of success to back it up.

I suspect the Patriots cheated to gain the #1 Power Ranking spot. #PowerRankGate FP

The Bills cheated when they left Marrone's playbook for us to find in their locker room. We should have been suspicious when it was only the size of a comic book.

I feel like I've waiting for years for the Pats** to fall back, so we could take over. Now I don't care how good the Pats are because I believe we are climbing up to where they are. Do I expect to win the Super Bowl this year? It's a tough road for any team so expecting Super Bowl feels a little over the top. I do believe we are a playoff team that can beat other playoff teams. I also think our opponents get a little tougher when they have more film to better prepare for our new systems installed this year. FP

At the expense of my fantasy team, I'd like to see Karlos Williams get a larger share of the carries. He hits the hole more decisively than McCoy who (much like Spiller) prefers to break the big gains. They could make a great tandem. Our O-Line run blocking didn't seem to improve as much from last year as I'd hoped. I hope our back-up O-line coach is up to the task.

I am pretty excited about Tyrod, but... I was excited when Doug Flutie got 10 wins I was excited when Drew Bledsoe won 31-0 on opening day I was excited when JP Losman was dropping long bombs on Lee Evans I was excited when Trent Edwards was 5-2 I was excited when Ryan Fitzpatrick was 5-2 I guess what I'm trying to say is you shouldn't rely too much on my level of excitement as a valid predictor of success. I've decided to be excited again anyway, mostly because I'm excited by what Roman brings to the offence and I think Tyrod will become very rich in 2-3 years because of his OC.

Screen Pass to Shady, Right Side, 6 yards 18 First Downs

I am so happy!! This is the biggest move of a pretty active off-season. I thought his deal would be closer to Suh's than this, which doesn't ruin our cap situation going forward. FP

I'm just happy that we now have an owner that allows our team to spend the full cap space. We were well under the cap before the Pegula's took over. Outside of the cap, it feels like our owners are willing to pay a premium for our coaching staff too. FP

When I look at Indy's schedule from last year, they benefitted from a pretty easy schedule (thanks to playing in a weak division). Other than a win over Baltimore in October, I don't see a win over a high quality team. Okay, I will count a 27-0 drubbing of the Bengals as a quality win too. Our biggest win was a 21-13 W over Green Bay, so we know we can play with the big boys (who don't break the rules). Week Date Opponent Result Record Game site Common Opponents 1 September 7 at Denver Broncos L 24–31 0–1 Sports Authority Field at Mile High 2 September 15 Philadelphia Eagles L 27–30 0–2 Lucas Oil Stadium 3 September 21 at Jacksonville Jaguars W 44–17 1–2 EverBank Field 4 September 28 Tennessee Titans W 41–17 2–2 Lucas Oil Stadium 5 October 5 Baltimore Ravens W 20–13 3–2 Lucas Oil Stadium 6 October 9 at Houston Texans W 33–28 4–2 NRG Stadium 7 October 19 Cincinnati Bengals W 27–0 5–2 Lucas Oil Stadium 8 October 26 at Pittsburgh Steelers L 34–51 5–3 Heinz Field 9 November 3 at New York Giants W 40–24 6–3 MetLife Stadium 10 Bye 11 November 16 New England Patriots L 20–42 6–4 Lucas Oil Stadium 12 November 23 Jacksonville Jaguars W 23–3 7–4 Lucas Oil Stadium 13 November 30 Washington Redskins W 49–27 8–4 Lucas Oil Stadium 14 December 7 at Cleveland Browns W 25–24 9–4 FirstEnergy Stadium 15 December 14 Houston Texans W 17–10 10–4 Lucas Oil Stadium 16 December 21 at Dallas Cowboys L 7–42 10–5 AT&T Stadium 17 December 28 at Tennessee Titans W 27–10 11–5 LP Field When I look at common opponents of Indy and Buffalo, the teams were more even last year than our records would suggest... We each lost to the Broncos by a touchdown We lost to the Pats** by 15 (ignoring our week 17 win over Garropollo), the Colts lost by 22 We beat the Browns by 16, the Colt squeaked by with a 1-pt victory They beat the Texans twice by 5 and 7 points. We lost by 6 points and we (the fans) were punished, being force to watch J.J. Watt's pick-6 over and over on the highlights. Is Indy still a tough opponent? Yes. Are they out of our league? No way. Some of the other posters have pointed out that our running game should take advantage of their poor run defence and our D-Line should control the line of scrimmage while Luck may have fun exploiting our rookie CB. I like our chances with a new (and is it premature to say improved) offence lead by Roman that the Colts have no film on with our personnel. I expect we will run the clock with a steady run game to minimize the number of drives that Luck has to play with. Our defence won't shut down the high flying Colts offence, but I trust Rex to build a game plan to cause plenty of disruption for Luck. My prediction... Bills 23 Colts 21 Go Bills!! FP

I wish every expert had us pegged to be this bad. Keep taking us lightly. I love being the underdog, I don't think we get to carry the underdog label much longer. FP

After reading this this article, it's clear what we need to do... We need to find a QB who has been learning his trade as a backup behind an established starting QB, like Rodgers did behind Favre and Young behind Montana - ideally about 4 years. The perfect scenario would be behind a Super Bowl winning QB. Aw shucks, we will never find a QB with that kind of start in the NFL to be our QB. It's just a pipe dream, I guess. FP

We are pretty thin at linebacker, so we are one injury away from regretting the Alonso trade. (I may be biased, because I now have an obsolete Alonso jersey)

Of all the personnel upgrades that have occurred during this off-season, I'm most excited about the coaching staff, especially Greg Roman. I can't wait for the season to begin!!!

I'm a Bills and Leafs fan. My football and hockey fantasy teams are the Billievers and BeLeafers.

The NFL does have a policy that requires the members of the NFLPA to co-operate fully in any investigation, so it's pretty clear that Brady has violated at least one policy that the NFLPA has agreed to.

Don't forget the Ideal Gas Law.

From YOLO: "Oooh Steward got Kiko's #" I hope Steward is the next superstar - I want my Alonso jersey to be salvagable.