Why do some Bills fans refuse to have confidence in this team?

[GunnerBill]

The gameday thread is not a serious thread I know I don't always treat it as a place for considered nuanced views and I am sure others don't either. So you can ignore that one. 

 

Otherwise the answer to your question is simple, some people talk down expectation as a defense mechanism so that if it doesn't happen (the Bills don't win the Superbowl) they hope the loss will feel less painful. It's a technique sports fans have used down the generations. Nothing new about it or unique to the Bills.

[Doc Brown]

Most people on this board are fanatics and tend to think like coaches.  They see all the possible things that could go wrong even though we're heavy favorites.  The casual Bills who can name maybe half of the starters (let alone the 53 man roster) are just expecting a blowout this Sunday.  Ignorance is bliss is a better way of putting it.

[billsbackto81]

This pretty much sums it up. 

Edited October 27, 2022 by billsbackto81

[bmur66]

Because sometimes people forget to retorque the lug nuts after 50 miles.

[GunnerBill]

6 hours ago, PrimeTime101 said:

I honestly do not understand why this is even a topic. Doesn't everyone have the right to feel how they wish to feel? who are we as fans to tell another fan how to feel. Maybe they feel they have been bitten one to many times?

 

SMH

 

Yes. 100% this. There has always been a bit of a sense of a need to police fandom on this site. There are various forms of fandom, none more "valid" than the other. 

[Draconator]

7 hours ago, JoPoy88 said:

no serious fans are doing this and White is obviously making a forced, bad joke. Which is understandable from his point of view since he’s in the position of taking calls from Bills “fans” that call in at 7:00am drunk and spewing this nonsense.

Have you not seen Einstein and RunJoshRun post?

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

7 hours ago, PrimeTime101 said:

I honestly do not understand why this is even a topic. Doesn't everyone have the right to feel how they wish to feel? who are we as fans to tell another fan how to feel. Maybe they feel they have been bitten one to many times?

 

SMH

Because the overly negative people tend to spam threads encouraging negativity in other people. In short, they're killjoys.

 

If they're sooooo worked about it, maybe keep it to themselves.

[Beast]

Ok, you got me. I’ll change my prediction from 45-10 Bills to 48-10 Bills.

[cd1]

Honestly, this season's success rests mostly on Q17's AVAILABILITY.

 

One little thing goes wrong and it's Keenum time!

 

Then lets discuss this confidence of which you speak.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

11 minutes ago, cd1 said:

Honestly, this season's success rests mostly on Q17's AVAILABILITY.

 

One little thing goes wrong and it's Keenum time!

 

Then lets discuss this confidence of which you speak.

Could say the same about any team 

[Bkelly]

8 hours ago, Beck Water said:

It's BBFS (battered Buffalo Bills fan syndrome)

 

We're afraid to hope lest our hopes, once again, get trompled upon

This. I've been a fan since 1972. It's been a rollercoaster ride and the drops have been steep.

[HOUSE]

I am not buying any of this.

  If you think Bills fans are not confident then check the weekly  prediction threads. 

Nice little post but the predictions say the opposite. 

Next thread should be,  WHY ARE BILLS FANS OVERCONFIDENT ?

Edited October 27, 2022 by HOUSE

[CEN-CAL17]

Just look back to the Jacksonville game last year…..  obviously we know we are the better team, but that means nothing.

 

They have some studs on both sides of the ball…. Much more talented than Jacksonville last year.

 

With Green Bay, they are backed into a corner right now, that’s the point fans are making.

[HOUSE]

The more I read this thread the funnier it becomes. 

[That's No Moon]

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

[FLFan]

9 hours ago, Beck Water said:

It's BBFS (battered Buffalo Bills fan syndrome)

 

We're afraid to hope lest our hopes, once again, get trompled upon

To some degree.  I think some people are just miserable and want to drag other people into their misery. Some others love the role of contrarian because that way, if the worst happens, they can say they were right.  As for me, I have been a fan of the Bills for 60 years.  This is easily the best team and the best organization I have seen in all that time. They have not been perfect and I do not expect perfection in the future, but what they have already accomplished, and what they are capable of accomplishing, is very exciting.

 

 It may not work out the way we want. There are no guarantees and anything can happen, but I intend to enjoy this ride, however long it lasts and however it ends.  That is after all what we boarded this Bills train for.  

[eball]

9 hours ago, teef said:

Everyone in this thread is correct. 

 

Haha I was literally about to post something similar.  Everybody has their own story of why they feel as they do.  Up until midway through the 2020 season I had BBFS big time.  Now it’s gone.  I don’t “worry” about any game because I know what our opponents are doing — worrying about us.  I have faith in the front office, the coaching, and above all else, 17.

 

Bad bounces are going to happen.  Injuries are going to happen.  We will probably lose a game we shouldn’t (well, we already have, but I left that Miami game completely unconcerned).  But the Bills are a juggernaut, make no mistake.

 

Nobody in the Buffalo locker room is “underestimating” Aaron freaking Rodgers.  Fans underestimate teams, but players and coaches rarely do.  They know the fine line between winning and losing.

 

What I typically do now is I stay out of the “worry” threads, unless it is to throw a joke in there.

 

We are just at the beginning of a wonderful era for Bills football, and I’m enjoying all of it.

 

[Greg S]

10 hours ago, BillsFan619 said:

I’ve been holding off on this post for a couple days but this facetious Twitter post got me off the fence. I know it’s hard to tell tone in a post so please know this isn’t an angry or demeaning rant, it’s more of a curious rant.

 

Why do some fans choose not to have confidence in this team?

 

We’re the best team in the league and there’s still posts about “remember the Jags game”, “any given Sunday”, “this will be the game this team gets out of their  slump”, “we don’t have tape on this rookie QB so he could torch us”, etc., etc., etc.

 

Or, there may be posts that pick out one strength from the opposing team or one weakness from us and they’re worried about that instead of choosing to be confident in the nine strengths we do have going into that game.

 

I’ll only mention this one thing about the game day posts because many times that’s when the worst comes out. There’s posts on there where we’ll have a rough start or a stalled drive or two and people are calling for the coaches’ heads.

I think most fans get that we’re not gonna win every game and that the jags game or any given Sunday game could happen once or possibly twice a year. Why not go into some games (I say some games because I get being nervous going into a game like the Chiefs, Ravens or another good team but against teams like the Steelers, Jets or another middling team?) confident and then if there is an “any given Sunday” or “Jags game” outcome then just chalk it up as such. We’re at a level where we can enjoy this team without having to worry about every negative, weakness or game.

 

We get critique but calling for the coach’s head when he’s the winningest coach in our history?

 

-We’re the best team in football (we know there may be a game or two where it’s any given Sunday)

-Someone in another post mentioned this already but we’ve beaten the #2 seed, #3 seed and #4 in our conference

-JA is one of the best, if not the best, QBs in the league right now

-We have the #1 defense and a top-three offense

-Our point differential is the highest in the league and the next team isn’t even close

-The average points we’ve beaten the Rams, the Titans, the Ravens and the Chiefs by is 15 points

-We’ve blown people out and have won close games

-We’re the #1 seed in the AFC, and again, the best team in football

 

What more do you need to be confident going into games? If you’re one of these fans, I’d love to hear from you. Do you just find something to be nervous about, do you just not have enough confidence in this team, are you just trolling or…?

 

I’d love to hear from a lot of Bills Mafia as well. Curious rant over.

 

Go Bills!

 

If you have been a fan as long as I have (the mid 1970's) then you would know why many Bills like myself have that "Charlie Brown trying to kick the football from Lucy" moment with this team. I think this will be the year. It is looking good but until they actually win one there will always be some doubt for many Bills fans.

[extrahammer]

Yes our offense has put up enough to cover for what I'm about to bring up, but let's talk about turnovers this season...

[Sherlock Holmes]

48 minutes ago, HOUSE said:

The more I read this thread the funnier it becomes. 

 

Oooh, you almost had it...