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Pretty much this. I think for the first time since the arrival of Brady and Belichick in NE, the Bills actually have comparable talent to the Pats throughout the roster. Unfortunately, they aren't in the same league with NE at QB and HC. Probably no other team is, either. A few teams over the years have had good enough coaching and/or QB play and/or over all talent to go toe-to-toe with the Pats for a game or two but nobody has done it consistently. If the Bills can play NE tough and keep the game close, that probably is the best they'll be able to do. If they can actually win the game, that will border on miraculous, although far more realistic than it appeared to be a month ago.

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I think that if the Bills play NE tough, even if they lose a close game, they'll gain more respect. I don't think that they would move up in that scenario but they probably wouldn't drop very far if at all. With power rankings, who a team plays and how it plays count for more than simply whether they win or lose.

Sometimes, though, the prestige of a program can propel draft prospects to higher positions in the draft than they perhaps merit by their actual play on the field. USC QBs, Penn State LBs, and Iowa OLers seem to be examples of this.

The Lions went into Philly and beat an Eagles team that's considered a bonafide Super Bowl contender. The Texans went to LA and beat the Chargers, another team considered a Super Bowl contender. The Saints went to Seattle -- one of the acknowledged toughest places to play -- and pretty much stuck it to the playoff contender Seahawks without future HOFer Drew Brees and despite the heroics of future HOFer Russell Wilson. The Ravens went into KC and went toe to toe with the offensive juggernaut that is the Mahomes' led Chiefs. The 49ers at home made 5 turn overs and just managed to survive the Roethlisberger-less Steelers. The Bills almost lost their home opener to a winless Bengals team because they sleep walked through the third quarter. All the teams in the NFC North are either undefeated or 1 loss teams. The Packers are 3-0, the Lions 2-0-1, and the Vikings and Bears are 2-1. Maybe you should actually watch other teams rather than just whining.

Right on, man!!! How dare anybody criticize the Bills! They're 3-0, and their play has been as perfect as their record. The Pats are DOOMED! //sarcasm off

What a load of bull manure! Mariota reminds me of Trent Edwards with more talent around him.

Maybe you should have read on. Putting Jackson #8 is not nearly as egregious as putting Matt Ryan and his 5 INTs at #10.

I usually just laugh at these threads bemoaning that the Bills don't get enough "respect" in rankings, but i think that complaints are justified with this QB ranking piece. Obviously, these "ratings" are mostly based on reputation and hype not actual performance. The first four are dead-on, but I don't think Phillip Rivers deserves to be #5 ahead of Wentz, Prescott, and Jackson who have all played better than Rivers. That's no big deal, however, when Matt Ryan with 5 INTS is rated #10 and Baker Mayfield with 4 INTs is #12 while Jared Goff comes in at #11, Stafford at #13, and Dalton at #17. Seriously????? How can Kyler Murray be #15 when he can't produce TDs? The best that can be said of Cam Newton, Marcus Mariota, and Kirk Cousins this season is that they've been ineffective yet they're all in the top 21 ahead of Josh Allen, who has played well and been very effective after the first half of the opener? Allen should be in the top 20 at least, and probably in the top 15. In both his starts, he's shown that he can play clutch when needed, something that several QBs rated ahead of him -- Ryan, Mayfield, Murray, Newton, Mariota, and Cousins -- have failed to do.

Seriously? Have you watched any NFL games except the Bills vs Jets and Giants? When Josh Allen starts regularly throwing for 300+ yards and multiple TDs per game, he might be in the conversation, but so far this season, he's not come close to Mahomes or Jackson in passing, and he's not close to Jackson in running.

I think that the biggest improvement in the offense is the assistant coaches. The Bills didn't just improve their OL and WR personnel, they also changed most of their offensive assistants, and that's paid big dividends. Giving Josh Allen a competent, experienced QB coach in the person of Ken Dorsey has enabled him to start playing like a competent NFL QB not some sandlot hero. Better OL and receiver coaching has enabled the new OLers and receivers, both WRs and TEs, to be more productive than expected from the start.

Welcome to TSW. Beating two bottom feeders at the start of the season just isn't impressive no matter what team does it.

This. I expected Allen to be improved, but I never expected him to show this much improvement this quickly. Allen's improvement puts him at about the same level as Baker Mayfield and Lamar Jackson who also made a quantum leap between last season and this one.

It should be -32. They lost by 30 to the Pats and by 2 to the Seahawks.

Marrone's problem is that he doesn't have the next Belichick as his DC. Parcells never won a playoff game as HC without Belichick as his DC.

As I've said before, some teams that laid eggs in Week 1 will go on to become playoff teams while some other teams that performed well in Week 1 will wind up in the toilet. Week 2 only gives us a hint of what the teams really are.

I think #12 is a fair ranking at this time. Yes, the Bills are 2-0 and did that on the road but both of their opponents look to be serious bottom-feeders. Until they prove they can beat teams about equal to them or better, they won't get the "respect" that Bills fans think they deserve now. A win, even a lopsided one, next week over Cinci probably won't propel the Bills more than 1 or 2 places higher. If they can go toe-to-toe with the Pats in Week 4, then they'll start being considered a serious playoff contender.

The CBS rankings are messed up big time. First off, the records aren't right. Arizona and Detroit are the only teams that tied but they have the Chargers, Saints, Eagles, and Vikings with ties. The blurbs are all based on week 1. The heavy.com rankings seem to have ranked all the 2-0 teams, then the 1 win teams, and then the winless teams.

You obviously missed Watson's 21 yard TD run against the Saints in Week 1.

This is simply nonsense.

Because there's no hard evidence that the Pats actually colluded with Brown to pull this off? Aside from speculation about the speed of the contract settlement, there's nothing to link the Pats to Brown's actions in Oakland. Moreover, I think a lot of teams simply aren't -- and never were -- interested in bringing in Brown because of his actions both in Pittsburgh last season and with Oakland. Now, with the civil suit against Brown, they have even less interest in Brown --- and some are probably thinking that maybe Kraft and Belichick have finally outsmarted themselves if the NFL investigation leads to Brown being unable to play until the lawsuit is settled.

Expecting the Bills to move up 5 spots based on winning against the Giants isn't going to happen unless the Bills blow out the Giants and a couple of team above them get their butts handed to them. The Giants are considered bottom feeders, ranked #29, so the Bills aren't going to get much credit winning a competitive game against them. The closer to the top of the rankings a team gets, the harder it gets to move up.

Watson has come of age. Watching him against the Saints, it was hard to remember that he was only playing in his 23rd NFL game. If Josh Allen can develop the kind of command of the game that Watson displayed on Monday, the Bills will have themselves a keeper.

This is the problem with judging any team's Week 1 performance. There's likely to be at least one team that won -- and looked good doing it --- that's going to crash and burn just as there's likely to be one team that lost big time that turns it around. I'd nominate the Raiders for a team likely to suck most of the rest of the season, and either Atlanta or Pittsburgh for a team that actually turns out to be good. Doh. Because the Jets made the two point conversion on their second TD, remember? If their kicker had made the first PAT, they would have just kicked the second one rather than going for two points. Two TDs + 1 2-point conversion + 1 safety = 16 points. The missed FG would have given the Jets 19 points and the lead. They would have tried to run out the clock with running plays instead of trying to get down into scoring range again by passing.