SKOOBY

Pure canadian,

Trends for Sunday's game in Gillette Stadium clearly do not favor the Buffalo Bills. They haven't beaten the New England Patriots in nine straight tries and 14 of their past 15. One more Bills loss will match the NFL's longest active skid against a given opponent. In their nine-game win streak over the Bills, the Patriots are averaging 32.0 points for and 9.6 points against. The Patriots won 38-7 and 56-10 last year. Dick Jauron is the third Bills coach of this long drought. He admitted Wednesday in a conference call with Patriots reporters the trend will have a psychological impact. "I believe that the fact that they've beaten us and beaten us soundly definitely has an effect," Jauron said. "I'm sure it has an effect on them, too, in terms of their confidence in playing us. We have to deal with it. "We've been on the losing end, and, as I pointed out, badly. So we've got to try to gain a little ground on these guys." http://myespn.go.com/blogs/afceast/0-4-242...l-to-Bills.html

Which I feel is what is going to happen. Denver has not been setting the world on fire and SF is in shambles with the coach half dressed at halftime, all winnable games.

There are things that are considered injuries and need to be reported and things that do not need to be reported. A few of our bigger ticket players have nagging dings that have hindered their play. I will not mention any names but flap jackets are being used for one guy just to be able to take the shots he has to endure. Others have mentioned limps and others tweaks that go by nearly unnoticed until gameday when they don't seem like their previous self. Keep this all in mind before you bury anyone too fast or call the team out on problems. Many of you who have jumped ship or threatened to disappear because of frustration are literally lost and have no idea of what goes on the sidelines. Stories cover problems that have no reason to see the light of day and if they did would hurt the team even more. Enduring a entire season of abuse in the NFL is a major event and one of the biggest reason that even the best teams lose on certain days. It's rarely mentioned but even the best players seem invisible or not up too par at some point during any season, NE got real lucky last year / literally a miracle of injury free play until later in the year. Think that NE week 1 beats NYG week 1?

The level of play by our defense will end up being determined by how our offense succeeds. If we score TD's and not FG's, it makes it that much easier for our defense (or any defense). I personally think that we'll do real well this weekend and fight it our the rest of the year.

Personally, I thought 4-4 was going to be our record but we jumped out pretty quick there and recently had some injuries that challenged our depth at key positions. Is 5-3 really all that bad or not give us a chance to compete?? If you check our previous years our mid schedule games, it brought out some of our best play so I think we have more than a fighting chance. To give up on any season mid-way if unthinkable. GO BILLS!! Look at the NYG second half last season, they got killed at home by the vikings 41-17 and never looked back: 10 November 11 4:15 p.m. Fox vs Dallas Cowboys L 31-20 Giants Stadium Recap 11 November 18 1:00 p.m.[e][2] Fox @ Detroit Lions W 16-10 Ford Field Recap 12 November 25 1:00 p.m. Fox vs Minnesota Vikings L 41-17 Giants Stadium Recap 13 December 2 4:15 p.m. Fox @ Chicago Bears W 21-16 Soldier Field Recap 14 December 9 1:00 p.m. Fox @ Philadelphia Eagles W 16-13 Lincoln Financial Field Recap 15 December 16 8:15 p.m. NBC vs Washington Redskins L 22-10 Giants Stadium Recap 16 December 23 1:00 p.m. Fox @ Buffalo Bills W 38-21 Ralph Wilson Stadium Recap 17 December 29 8:15 p.m. NFLN[f] vs New England Patriots L 38-35 Giants Stadium Recap Postseason 1[g] January 6 1:00 p.m. Fox @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers W 24-14 Raymond James Stadium Recap 2[h] January 13 4:30 p.m. Fox @ Dallas Cowboys W 21-17 Texas Stadium Recap 3 January 20 6:30 p.m. Fox @ Green Bay Packers W 23-20 Lambeau Field Recap 4[j] February 3 6:30 p.m. Fox @ New England Patriots W 17-14 University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale, Arizona Recap

Injury?? What injury?? We’ll have an update on his injury situation this afternoon.

I have no idea why anyone would think NE can beat us once, much less than twice. Cassel can't throw more than 12 yards accurately & they are on their 3rd string RB. They are a mere shell of last years team with some serious questions on D / injuries. I see us rolling them twice and the power shifting to us. Plan on a 11-5 season or 12-4, no worse.

Well you lose a few, things like this happen. If we win the rest of our AFC games and play well against the balance, we're in.

F-it 13-3, we win out.

Been there, seen that.

Chris Brown has verified it as well.

It's a joke to think that NE is unbeatable in anyway. They got smoked by the fins at home before (26 point loss) & we can play great ball. F- all the naysayers & negative nannies, the Bills are going to win.

Fins helped us out, 2 / 4-4 teams now.

Loaded sawed off in the mouth.

Tackle with the first set of hands on our opponents.

If we win next week, the picture shifts again.

They missed a ton of tackles as well. That last Jets drive took up like 9 minutes, that's unacceptable.

No but he could back up his words with actions instead of more words.

One of the Coaches.

Sawed off and loaded.

Crap.