Define your "successful" season?

[billykaykay]

The owner of the NYG defined his successful season when the 16th game actually means something.

[PortlandiaEast]

If EJ, or any QB on the roster, figures out how to be a competent QB, there is no way we dont make the playoffs.

Edited June 9, 2015 by PortlandiaEast

[Big C]

If EJ, or any QB on the roster, figures out how to be a competent QB, there is no way we dont make the playoffs.

 

Exactly

[Chandler#81]

Playoffs. Both options suck, btw.

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This.

[BUFFALOKIE]

Nothing less than a playoff WIN will be marked as a successful season in my book. QB Improvement, ending the leagues longest drought, those are great, but losing in the first round of the playoffs seems almost like you didn't belong there in the first place.

[Bills Fan of St Augustine]

Sorry, but your choices are non-starters.

[BillsFan-4-Ever]

please modify to add the following option and I will add my vote to the poll.

 

I'll opt for this option

We end our playoff drought, get trounced in the wild card game, but EJ emerges as our starter and shows he can lead this team for the future?

 

but would much prefer this

We end our playoff drought, and EJ emerges as our starter and shows he can lead this team for the future?

[The Wiz]

Nothing less than a playoff WIN will be marked as a successful season in my book. QB Improvement, ending the leagues longest drought, those are great, but losing in the first round of the playoffs seems almost like you didn't belong there in the first place.

I disagree. If they get in on their own, without some mathematical breakdown to the 3rd, 4th, 5th tie breaker, there's no reason they don't belong.

 

When a team gets into the playoff going 7-9 to win the division, then you can say there is no reason for them to be there.

[Kirby Jackson]

This poll should be changed to "which of these options do you prefer?" A successful season isn't necessarily defined by this criteria. The record will define a successful season. That is why so many people are abstaining.

[Fadingpain]

I went with a null vote.

 

If #1 happens (with the QB's that is), I doubt they make the playoffs.

If #2 happens (with EJ that is), there's no reason they shouldn't make the playoffs.

 

Sorry

I agree with this logic.

 

The two options in the poll are rather specific, contrived, and don't make a whole lot of sense, with all due respect to the original poster.

 

For the record, the mark of a successful season, this year, is to make the playoffs, and nothing less.

What happens in the playoffs is immaterial to that.

[Bob Malooga]

Whatever gets me exciting football and a 1st round QB next year.

 

(No, I don't want them to lose for the QB. I'd like to see a Wild-Card game, with no QB separating from the pack.)

 

Build the team up as much as possible, get the schemes in place...drop Cook or Hackenberg or whomever in at QB next year.

[DanInUticaTampa]

#1 - making the playoffs is the only definition of a "successful season" for me.

 

#2- an emerging EJ who earns the starters role is a nice consolation prize...kinda like getting jack eichel....a key building block for the future.

 

This pretty much. With all the hype, I am going to be disappointed if we don't win a playoff game. But that is asking a lot from a team that hasnt been good in awhile

[vincec]

Neither one of these would be "successful", IMO. I want playoffs + 1 playoff win, minimum to say successful.

[Rocky Landing]

This is a troll poll.

[Augie]

Present.

 

(Not a fan of the options.)

[Green Lightning]

Choice 3 - The Bills miss the playoffs on a last minute field goal to the Patriots Who subsequently are caught with an over inflated special team ball and DQ'd. So the Bills get in but QB's still stink, but we win our first playoff playoff game by going all wildcat and wish bone.

 

A stupid choice but right in line with the first two.

[Thunderstealer]

Blue and red confetti falling from the Levi Stadium rafters Feb. 7th.

 

Terry and Kim holding up the VL trophy together.

[hondo in seattle]

Forgetting the options, a "successful" season to me is simply making the playoffs, even if we lose in the first round.

 

We really need to end the drought.

 

And any team that makes the playoffs is relevant. I want the Bills to be relevant again.

[dezertbill]

Playoff win

[8-8 Forever?]

Well said. Our defense is so talented that there is no way we miss the playoffs with quality QB play. Therefore EJ would have to play like crap for us to miss the playoffs.

a pile of IR type injuries would take us out of the playoffs, as it has done for so many teams over the years. never discount the injury factor in the NFL. "next man up" is a bunch of garbage in most cases. the dropoff from starter to 2nd string is pretty dramatic in the NFL.

Edited June 10, 2015 by 8and8Forever