Even if we miss the playoffs....

[SF Bills Fan]

We could make the playoffs but I don't think we have what it takes to win it all. I can't see any AFC team beating the Niners

[IronyAbounds]

I said it after 13 seconds and I'll say it now, there are no guarantees from year to year and missed opportunities are killers because the next year the opportunity may not be there. Even with a banged up defense this team should make the playoffs. Two horrendous losses to the Jets and Pats are backbreakers because they cut the Bills' margin of error down to a sliver. Something is awry with the team, that seems apparent.

[Thrivefourfive]

7 hours ago, UKBillFan said:

 

If the Bills make the Play Offs, you'd think no one will want to face them as it means they would have driven the Eagles close and overcame at least two of the Chiefs, Cowboys and Dolphins, if not all three, in the final weeks - two of them away. But it also feels like this franchise can mess up things like no other, so perhaps they'll be preferred opponents. Just wait for Wide Right, Miracle in Music City, 13 Seconds, 12 Men...etcetera, etcetera, etcetera

Just needed to interject my wondering thinkings

[Aussie Joe]

14 hours ago, loyal2dagame said:

Marino missed the playoffs 7 time out of 17 years. 

Favre missed the playoffs multiple times. 

 

I hope it doesn't happen to Allen and the Bills this year,  or ever. 

 

But if and when it does, the sky won't be falling.

At least Marino got his reward in the end..

[Dr.Sack]

We get a 2nd place schedule so there’s that. Miami gets #1.
 

@ Texans 

@ Colts

@ LA Rams 

@ AFC North #2 (Browns/Steelers/Bengals)

@ NFC North #2 (Packers/Vikings)

@ Seahawks

@ Pats

@ Jets

@ Fins

 

H Fins

H Pats

H Jets 

H Jags

H Titans

H Cardinals

H 49ers

H AFC West #2 (Broncos, Raiders, Chargers)

[LV Bills fan]

15 hours ago, loyal2dagame said:

Marino missed the playoffs 7 time out of 17 years. 

Favre missed the playoffs multiple times. 

 

I hope it doesn't happen to Allen and the Bills this year,  or ever. 

 

But if and when it does, the sky won't be falling.

Yes but that was back when half the conference didn’t make the playoffs. 

[KeLLy1278]

This fan base needs to be more demanding.  Positives after not making the playoffs.. ok.

[BADOLBILZ]

18 hours ago, PBF81 said:

 

BTW, I just looked, of the top-11 teams ranked in scoring offense last season, only one managed to miss the playoffs, which was Detroit, which was ranked 29th in Defense, not 5th.  

 

We'll see, and I'll run the numbers at season's end with our actual final rankings, but there's good reason to believe that we'll be in historically superlatively bad territory in this way.  

 

 

 

 

2010 Chargers were ranked #1 in BOTH offense and defense and missed the playoffs............we have more recognized stats now than in 2010 but that's probably the statistical gold standard for high league rankings and missing the playoffs.

 

The worst part is that is a largely forgotten/forgettable team who barely sniffed the SB after years of success.   Which is how this Bills team is trending.

 

But with the "points" thing.......the 2017 Bills team had the worst point differential of any AFC team to make the playoffs since the late 1980's.

 

 

[PBF81]

15 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:

2010 Chargers were ranked #1 in BOTH offense and defense and missed the playoffs............we have more recognized stats now than in 2010 but that's probably the statistical gold standard for high league rankings and missing the playoffs.

 

The worst part is that is a largely forgotten/forgettable team who barely sniffed the SB after years of success.   Which is how this Bills team is trending.

 

But with the "points" thing.......the 2017 Bills team had the worst point differential of any AFC team to make the playoffs since the late 1980's.

 

Interesting stuff, thanks!!  

 

Nice work too!  

 

In '17, we also only beat two winning teams that season, and only one team that made it to a divisional round, yet lost, which was Atlanta, which had the 15th ranked offense and the 8th ranked D, so good, not great.  

 

Also in '17, we were the worst team with a winning record in the league that season.