The Lie that our winning streak was a lie

[Fake-Fat Sunny]

One of the misreadings of stats which seems to have some prevalence is that the Bills play against Pittsburgh revealed that the 6 game winning streak was simply blue somk and mirrors and that this team cannot beat good NFL teams.

 

This view may be convenient for those who want to claim this team is bad, but it is simply not factually accurate.

 

True the Bills are not one of the elite teams in the league and were simply beaten by a better team on Sunday, but the dirty little lie is that you do not have to be an elite team to make the NFL playoffs.

 

The Bills had a losing record against the 12 teams which made the playoffs, but the fact remains that they were actually 3-4 in their 7 games against these teams.

 

The breakdown is this:

 

NE- 2 losses against a team they not only were not as good as, but no one knows Bledsoe's weaknesses like BB, Weis and Crennel,

 

Pittsburgh- Hopelessly outclassed by a team which beat both NE and Philly. We got ripped by their 4th string RB and QB in Buffalo.

 

but:

 

NYJ- they were 1-1 against a team which was slightly better than them in the beginning of the season but actually was worst than the Bills at the end of the season when the Jets backed into the playoffs

 

St. Louis- lost to the Bills in a laugher for us at the Ralph.

 

Seattle- loss to us in a laugher for us on the road.

 

One of the oddities for the Bills is that the league is bisected with Pitts, NE and Philly (prior to the injury to Owens being much better than the rest. The Colts, Atlanta and San Diiego are a cut above the crowd but have some obvious flaws which mean they can be beatan at any time.

 

The rest are pretenders at about the Bills level or worse.

 

The fun thing about the NFL is that on any given Sunday (or Monday night) even a pretender can beat a real team. The big disappointment for the Bills is that if the first games against Jax and Oak had gone according to form and the refs had employed the tuck rule as they did when they saved NE in their first SB run or missed a coin flip we woulda, coulda, shoulda have gone far.