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Good afternoon folks, the 2021 season is just over a month away and so it is time for some BOLD predictions. We are after at least TWO Bills specific and at least TWO non-Bills bold predictions for the season ahead. I always do 8 (4 and 4).

 

I nailed 5 of the 8 back in 2017, last year I was correct with two - one NFL wide one which was that the Browns would not only make the playoffs but also win a playoff game; and one Bills one which was that Diggs would lead the AFC in receiving yards (he actually led the entire league) and be a first team all pro. 

 

NFL wide

  • The Washington Football Team will win at least 10 games and Ron Rivera will be named coach of the year
  • Carson Wentz will lose his job as the Colts starting Quarterback for football reasons (i.e. not just because of the foot injury)
  • Nick Sirianni to be one and done as Head Coach in Philadelphia as the Eagles end up with the #1 overall pick
  • The Pittsburgh Steelers to have their first losing season since 2003, Big Ben to retire and both Kevin Colbert and Mike Tomlin to step down at the end of the campaign. 

 

Bills specific

  • Greg Rousseau to break the record for sacks by a Bills drafted rookie (Cornelius Bennett had 8.5 as a rookie but was not Bills drafted, the existing record is 6.5 held jointly by Bruce and Aaron Schobel)
  • Gabriel Davis to have a 1,000 yard season
  • Emmanuel Sanders to throw a touchdown pass
  • Matt Milano to make the pro bowl and attract all pro votes. 

 

So there are mine, flame away!!!

 

Let's hear yours.

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8 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

Good afternoon folks, the 2021 season is just over a month away and so it is time for some BOLD predictions. We are after at least TWO Bills specific and at least TWO non-Bills bold predictions for the season ahead. I always do 8 (4 and 4).

 

I nailed 5 of the 8 back in 2017, last year I was correct with two - one NFL wide one which was that the Browns would not only make the playoffs but also win a playoff game; and one Bills one which was that Diggs would lead the AFC in receiving yards (he actually led the entire league) and be a first team all pro. 

 

NFL wide

  • The Washington Football Team will win at least 10 games and Ron Rivera will be named coach of the year
  • Carson Wentz will lose his job as the Colts starting Quarterback for football reasons (i.e. not just because of the foot injury)
  • Nick Sirianni to be one and done as Head Coach in Philadelphia as the Eagles end up with the #1 overall pick
  • The Pittsburgh Steelers to have their first losing season since 2003, Big Ben to retire and both Kevin Colbert and Mike Tomlin to step down at the end of the campaign. 

 

Bills specific

  • Greg Rousseau to break the record for sacks by a Bills drafted rookie (Cornelius Bennett had 8.5 as a rookie but was not Bills drafted, the existing record is 6.5 held jointly by Bruce and Aaron Schobel)
  • Gabriel Davis to have a 1,000 yard season
  • Emmanuel Sanders to throw a touchdown pass
  • Matt Milano to make the pro bowl and attract all pro votes. 

 

So there are mine, flame away!!!

 

Let's hear yours.

 

Can you put the link to last year's thread here, please?

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NFL related:

 

-Trevor Lawrence wins offensive rookie of the year

 

-Mac Jones becomes the NE starter by week 4

 

-Brady falls off a cliff in the 2nd half of the year 

 

-Justin Herbert leads the NFL in passing yards 

 

Bills predictions:

-Bills flirt with 4 1,000 yard receivers, with Diggs, Sanders and Beasley all getting there. Davis just misses with 800ish...

 

-Knox has a breakout year at TE for us and becomes a big mismatch 

 

-Allen throws for 5K+ yards and 45 TDs 

 

-Bills make it to the Super Bowl(I am not offering a prediction on the game as to not jinx them)

 

-Bills have homefield advantage through the AFC playoffs and get the bye by virtue of best record in the conference.

 

-Bills are in the top 5 for sacks this year and top 3 for sacks by defensive line.

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Bills specific

1. Beasley will lead the team in yards

2. Ed Oliver gets 9.5 sacks on the season to lead the Bills

3. Taron Johnson continues his pick six ways and leads the team in INTs (kid has an Ed Reed nose for the ball)

4. Tyler Big-Balls-Bass has two 60+ yard FGs made on the season

5. Allen hits  72% completion rate for the season

 

NFL specific

1. Fields starts in Chicago Week 1

2. Prescott Leads the League in passing yards

3. Pitts wins ROTY

4. Belichick stays with Cam Newton all season

5. Jon Gruden is fired

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NFL related: The Bucs fall off a cliff- 1. Brady age finally shows. 2. All rookie QB's from this past years draft look horrible. 3. Lamar Jackson is exposed yet again and majority of people finally realize he isn't a good QB.

 

Bills related: We are going to the Super Bowl fellas. 

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NFL WISE:

- Kansas City will be 1 and done in the playoffs.

- Brady misses considerable time due to injury. Bucs barely make playoffs.

- Stafford flops in LA

- Mike Zimmer will be 1st HC fired on the season (by week 6)

 

BILLS SPECIFIC:

- Over the final 8 games, Davis has more targets and receptions than Beasley.

- Moss claims lead dog spot in the backfield. Ends season just short of 1000 yards.

- Allen and Diggs trail off a bit numbers wise. 

- Bills finish 11-6, winning AFCE, #3 Seed in playoffs. Make AFC Championship game again...this time against the Browns.

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Went straight to post and didn't read anyone else's predicts except for OP's.

 

Non Bills - TB will not be in the SB again

                - Gronk is injured and misses serious time

                - Wentz screws the Iggles and misses much more time than anyone says right now

                - Dak has a huge year

 

Bills - Going to the big show

        - Jake makes team

        - JA has 40+ TD's

        - Fort Knox's light comes on and the kid is Gronk like, 8TD's minimum (Oh God Please!)

        - The D is going to be top 5

 

Go BILLS!!!

 

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Fun fun.. 

 

league wide I’ll go with 

Nick Chubb wins the rushing title 

New Orleans ends up with the worst record 

DK Metcalf leads the league in receiving yardage (for bonus points he asks to be traded next offseason) 

Mr hoodie retires from coaching 

 

bills related I guess 

to keep with my hype train Obada leads the team in sacks 

neither Levi or Dane are cb2 by the end of the year (hello trade deadline) 

we finish top 10 in rushing, passing, and defense 

Josh Allen has a good year but is not involved in MVP discussions (Russ, Rodgers, Mahomes, Herbert, Chubb) 

 

 

 

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• Josh Allen wins Super Bowl MVP

• Carlos Basham, Ed Oliver and Tre White become elite forces on this D.

• Bills have a dominant defense.

• Josh Allen posts similar stats as he did last year with fewer INTs.

• Gabe Davis catches 65-70 catches for 1,000 yards.

• Bills take a true RB by committee approach. We see solid production, but not exceptional production.

• Edmunds and Milano have good not great years. Their job is made worlds easier by our improved DL.

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NFL:

 

Sean Peyton is fired at the end of the season with a 3-14 record

Justin Fields with Rookie of the year

Justin Herbert leads the Chargers to AFC West title, beating KC twice

 

Bills:
Josh Allen becomes first QB to pass for over 6000 yards in a season

Zach Moss rushes for just over 1000 yards 

Diggs, Sanders, Beasley over 1000 yards receiving, Davis is over 900

Rousseau and Basham each record 6 plus sacks

Bass sets NFL record for longest field goal, at the end of the half in the Thanksgiving game against New Orleans.

Knox leads the team in TD receptions

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-TBD melts down when Edmunds is named All Pro and makes the Pro Bowl

- Neither Lawrence or Wilson have the best rookie season for a QB

- Brian Flores finishes 3rd in the division and is on the hot seat. They draft a QB early, but insist it's just as a backup and they believe in Tua

- The Pats push the Bills for the division. Not ever really in jeopardy, but the Bills are only 1-2 games ahead for a fair portion of the season (you can't win more games than you play)

- The Colts weather the adversity and end up with a winning record. Reich coach of the year

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NFL wide

The Ravens will not make the playoffs.

The Browns will win their division, but lose in the Divisional Round again.

The Titans and Chiefs will finish the season with the same record, both winning their divisions.

The Rams will have the best regular season record in the NFC.

 

Bills specific

Singletary will average over 5 YPC and have over 1,000 yards rushing.

Josh Allen will be the league MVP.

Diggs and Davis will both have 1000+ receiving yards.

Tre White will lead the league in INTs and be the NFL's DPOY.

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The other one I nearly went for was Jameis Winston to have a solid year as the starter in New Orelans. I'm not sure if he will beat his career best in touchdowns - which was 33 in 2019, but I think he will in completion % and passer rating and while I expect the Saints to be below .500 and miss the playoffs I think they might well win too many to be in the top Quarterbacks from the draft hunt and I could see Winston sticking there. 

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NFL wide

The Ravens will not make the playoffs.

The Browns will win their division, but lose in the Divisional Round again.

The Titans and Chiefs will finish the season with the same record, both winning their divisions.

The Rams will have the best regular season record in the NFC.

 

Bills specific

Singletary will average over 5 YPC and have over 1,000 yards rushing.

Josh Allen will be the league MVP.

Diggs and Davis will both have 1000+ receiving yards.

Tre White will lead the league in INTs and be the NFL's DPOY.

 

Gonna keep bashing the Ravens and Singletary horses eh Gug?

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Bills' have more balance between running and passing.

Knox will have a breakout year.

Bass gives Bills Superbowl victory with field goal in final seconds.

McDermott will break NFL record for most claps in a single half

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1 minute ago, SoMAn said:

Bills' have more balance between running and passing.

Knox will have a breakout year.

Bass gives Bills Superbowl victory with field goal in final seconds.

McDermott will break NFL record for most claps in a single half

 

I'm afraid I am going to disqualify the final one of those as not being sufficiently bold. 

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NFL:

1.  With the extra game added, Derrick Henry becomes the first player to rush for back-to-back 2,000 yards.

2.  Kyle Pitts wins OROY.

3.  Zeke will be just shy of a 2,000 yard season.

4.  Lions are big time losers for trading away Stafford, which secures them the number 1 pick in next year's draft.

 

Bills:

1.  We will have three 1,000 yard receivers

2.  We will have two 1,000 yard rushers

3.  We lost back-to-back games against Titans and Chiefs last season.  This year, we beat both, which will help McD win COY.

4.  Diggs and Allen connects on more deep balls, which helps Diggs become the first receiver with 2,000 in a season.

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22 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

The other one I nearly went for was Jameis Winston to have a solid year as the starter in New Orelans. I'm not sure if he will beat his career best in touchdowns - which was 33 in 2019, but I think he will in completion % and passer rating and while I expect the Saints to be below .500 and miss the playoffs I think they might well win too many to be in the top Quarterbacks from the draft hunt and I could see Winston sticking there. 

 

Gonna keep bashing the Ravens and Singletary horses eh Gug?

 

I actually considered Winston, but I think the injury bug the team is experiencing will hurt.

 

I am ABSOLUTELY bashing the Ravens and Singletary horses!!! 

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12 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

I actually considered Winston, but I think the injury bug the team is experiencing will hurt.

 

I am ABSOLUTELY bashing the Ravens and Singletary horses!!! 

 

Yea same on Winston. If Thomas was healthy I'd have definitely done it but without him not sure who is going to be catching the balls in crunch time. 

 

I think you will miss on the Ravens and Singletary again I'm afraid. 

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I've covered some Bills ones in another thread, but here's some NFL wide ones I could see:

 

- Cowboys run away with NFCE and are legit SB contender.

- Bengals finish 2nd or 3rd in AFCN and win a WC spot

- Jacksonville is this years out of nowhere team and wins the AFCS (probably my boldest take but not necessarily far fetched given Indy's current injury situation and I think Tenn is sitll overrated).

- AZ and Kyler Murray flounder and finish last in the NFCW

- San Diego emerges as a top WC team and battles with KC all the way to the final week of the season to determine the AFCW division title.

- TB and Brady start season on a similar trajectory as the 2007 Pats and possibly go undefeated in the regular season but get bounced in their first playoff game.

- Seattle and Pitt end up with losing records and not making playoffs.

- KC makes it no farther than divisional round this year.

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11 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Yea same on Winston. If Thomas was healthy I'd have definitely done it but without him not sure who is going to be catching the balls in crunch time. 

 

I think you will miss on the Ravens and Singletary again I'm afraid. 

 

My Singletary prediction is the boldest of all.  Realistically unlikely.  I think Lamont's regression will be an annual trend.

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NFL:

 

1. Washington wins 12 games (12-5) behind good coaching, a top 2-3 defense, very impressive skill position players, and a QB in Ryan Fitzpatrick whose historic erraticism/inconsistency has actually given way to a MUCH better QB the last couple of years (emphatically the best two years of his career; he's trending up at 38) despite a Dolphins' team largely devoid of talent in 2019 & 2020 (Fitzpatrick was Miami's leading rusher in 2019... with 243 yards!!!).

 

2. No team in the AFC North is better than 10-7.  Conversely, no team is worse than 7-10.  Sneaky competitive division with the Steelers too summarily dismissed and the Bengals' offense poised to pop.

 

3.  The Los Angeles Chargers don't win the AFC West but still win 11 games and rookie coach Brando Staley is the Coach of the Year.

 

4.  Jets WR Elijah Moore flirts with Justin Jefferson #'s in his rookie year.  Though it's typically a QB's award (Zeke lost to Dak in 2016 despite leading the league in rushing- even Jefferson as an All-Pro lost last year to Herbert), he'll get some OROTY votes.

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Falcons win division

Falcons and WFT in NFC champ

Chargers and Bills in AFC champ

WFT and BFLO in SB, Bills win 20-14, Fitz throws 2 pics

Bills first loss is Dec 12

Justin Herbert is MVP

Chargers win division 

Jets get a WC

Tua loses starting job

There will be 2 NFL tie games 

5 players will be disciplined for not adhering to COVID protocols

 

 

 

 

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this is fun ...

 

- Bills finish 2nd in the AFCE to the patriots but still make the playoffs

-Bills vs Browns in the AFC championship game ending KC's streak of making it to the super bowl

-Steelers finish below .500 for first time in the Tomlin era and ben retires

-Chubb and hunt both rush for over 1,000 yds

- Seattle struggles and misses the payoffs they fire Pete Carroll after the season

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I've seen more than a handful of posters include the Bucs' collapse as one of their picks.  I also remember in last year's thread many prognosticators predict that Brady and the Bucs would struggle and we obviously know what became of that.

 

Is this something someone honestly believes will happen, after examining the facts objectively, accounting for the Bucs playing in a division with a rookie HC in Atlanta (and no Julio... plus likely abominable defense), where Sam Darnold "leads" the Panthers, and where the cap-strapped Saints lost Brees, hemorrhaged significant other talent, too, and won't have Michael Thomas for at least six games?  Brady's teams the last 11 years have also won 11+ games in the regular season... and actually 12+ with the exception of two years (2018 & 2020... and the 2018 Pats and 2020 Bucs still won the SB).

 

It's hard to see how Tampa Bay isn't vying for home field this season, IMO, so I don't know how anyone sees impending disaster.

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1 minute ago, Midwest1981 said:

I've seen more than a handful of posters include the Bucs' collapse as one of their picks.  I also remember in last year's thread many prognosticators predict that Brady and the Bucs would struggle and we obviously know what became of that.

 

Is this something someone honestly believes will happen, after examining the facts objectively, accounting for the Bucs playing in a division with a rookie HC in Atlanta (and no Julio... plus likely abominable defense), where Sam Darnold "leads" the Panthers, and where the cap-strapped Saints lost Brees, hemorrhaged significant other talent, too, and won't have Michael Thomas for at least six games?  Brady's teams the last 11 years have also won 11+ games in the regular season... and actually 12+ with the exception of one year (2018... where they still won the SB).

 

It's hard to see how Tampa Bay isn't vying for home field this season, IMO, so I don't know how anyone sees impending disaster.

 

This is primarily because Brady is a idiot

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4 minutes ago, Draconator said:

 

This is primarily because Brady is a idiot

But he still wins.  And Tampa Bay seems to have as soon a shot as anyone (maybe tied with Green Bay in the NFC North... but Vikings > Saints this year, IMO) to win their division.  And the Bucs get the NFC East and aren't even playing a 1st-place schedule, despite being champ, because technically their 11-5 record didn't win the NFC South last year.

 

Many of you may end up being right but it would fly in the face of even recent history for Brady.  We'll see- time always answers questions.

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5 minutes ago, Midwest1981 said:

I've seen more than a handful of posters include the Bucs' collapse as one of their picks.  I also remember in last year's thread many prognosticators predict that Brady and the Bucs would struggle and we obviously know what became of that.

 

Is this something someone honestly believes will happen, after examining the facts objectively, accounting for the Bucs playing in a division with a rookie HC in Atlanta (and no Julio... plus likely abominable defense), where Sam Darnold "leads" the Panthers, and where the cap-strapped Saints lost Brees, hemorrhaged significant other talent, too, and won't have Michael Thomas for at least six games?  Brady's teams the last 11 years have also won 11+ games in the regular season... and actually 12+ with the exception of one year (2018... where they still won the SB).

 

It's hard to see how Tampa Bay isn't vying for home field this season, IMO, so I don't know how anyone sees impending disaster.

 

If Brady is healthy the Buccs are the #1 seed IMO. They had a much tougher schedule last season and for 3/4s of the year were not very good while they figured stuff out. I do think Brady was a bit up and down last year, even in the playoffs he sucked in the NFCCG, but if he is healthy there is enough talent around him in a weak conference and a very weak division to go 12-5 or 13-4. That said, Carolina are my dark horse playoff team on the NFC side. 

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BOLD Predictions

 

NFL Wide

  • Bengals take the last wild card thanks to Burrow and the offense being sublime top 5 and not killing him
  • Seattle misses the playoffs and finishes 4th as the defense lacks the goods to stop anyone and the offense regresses further. This prompts legit discussions of Wilson leaving as he demands a trade and won't return
  • Carolina takes the last playoff spot out west thanks to a quietly good offense and weaker division with ATL rebuilding and NOLA taking a step back without Brees
  • Cleveland makes the playoffs but they are not the juggernaut people think as Baltimore wins the division
  • Rams beat the Packers who lose again in the NFC title at home
  • Justin Fields has a better rookie season then any season Mitch has taking Offensive ROY. The Bears just miss the playoffs but optimism is legit in Chi town
  • Dak Prescott's return is OK but not to the level people have hyped
  • The Cardinals make the playoffs but JJ Watt's impact is far more minimal then expected

Bills Wise

-Bills win the SB. I get they are a favorite but even typing that feels bold after everything we have been through

-Allen finishes 5th in MVP voting. The offense is more balanced and even though his play is improved the numbers dip a little

-Basham has 10 sacks and wins DROY

-The Bills beat KC on SNF AND in the AFC title to make the dance.

- Plastic table production cannot keep up with demand and the price goes up to $100 per table

 

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3 hours ago, Rico said:

I said it in another thread but:

Bills perfect season is ruined by Brady and the Bucs in December, but Bills get revenge in the Super Bowl. :thumbsup:

That’s all I care about.

Oh yeah, Josh Allen becomes the face of the league. He will be in commercials all thru 2022, while Rodgers and the Rat will be shunned by sponsors who want to max out profits using Josh.

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Bills:

11-6 do not sweep division. Clinch division, playoff spot last week of season. 

Josh Allen does not pass 5000 yds. or 40 TD's. Has more struggles than last year.    

Find out that prognostication is not my thing when the regular season ends. 

 

NFL:

Chargers lead league in offense, make playoffs, fans still don't show up. 

Jacksonville has winning record. Urban Meyer gets COY. 🤮 

The WFT sweeps Dallas, win division. Dallas gets WC. JJ hogs spotlight. 

 

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