You know not much can speak of the Buffalo Bolls season than Sundays game. The team started out 4-0 and lead its division but has been in downward slide ever since but what occured this Sunday was downright pathetic. With barely over 2 minutes left in the 4th quarter and with the lead the Bills, clearly not familar with how to win a game run passing play with thier backup quarterback J.P. Losman (SP?) who hasn't been that hot with passing the ball the entire game and while thier running game has been great the whole game. What the?!?!
At any rate Losman boneheadly can't find anyone open so instead of taking a sack or throwing out of bounds rolls to his right with his arm hanging the ball out so that a Jets defender coming up from the left can swat th ball out of his hand leading to a Jets recovery and running it in for TD.
Terrible.
Jets should have lost that one.
In other news Miami won thier game which leaves the AFC East still in a 3 way tie though it is my unstanding that the Pats are in last among that group and should both Miami and the Jets win both thier week 16 games the whomever wins in the had to head matchup in week 17 will win the division.
In other news the Pats beat the Raiders easily as expected. Next up as I mentioned in other poast is the Division winning Arizona Cardinals who just lost on Sunday to the Vikings. Sometimes this can play into how a team will perform next week seeing as how they do not want to lose 2 weeks in row but there is also the stat that Arizona has stunk against real teams especially when playing in the cold weather.
I still am picking the Pats to win but really I would not be shocked if it went the other way too. The Pats lost yet more players in the past two games and I think now have like something like 15 starters on IR. They are beat up.
In the end the Pats could win out the rest of the season and with an 11-5 record still miss the playoffs.
I would still be proud of them though
In other news I think no matter who makes it to the playoffs, Jets, Maiami or the Pats I hav e feeling all these teams will struggle.
Lets be honest shall we. Had Tom Brady not gone down in week 1 the Pats would have most likely beaten even the improved versions of both the Jets and the Dolphins because while the Pats D is not spectacular this year thier offense still would have been able to counter that by scoring at near will. Matt Cassel has trurned into a good quarterback for sure but he has had to learn a lot, on the job, which meant losses that pobably should not have happened but they did. On top of that in all the games where the Pats were crushed it was like the whole team failed, not just Cassel as mistakes were to be found all over the place.
My view of 3 of these team though is that just do not stack up against other high caliber teams right now. I think the Steelers in particualr are standout since thier defense is so monsterous. The Giants have done surprisingly well this year but have started to fall off the last few and may very well lose thier spot here soon to the Panthers.
As the season winds down I have to say this was a hella competitive year even though my team has had to deal with as much as it has. I am very curious to see what occurs over the off season because the Pats really need I think to start letting some of thier older players go, as much as I love them guys, they are getting old and it time for new blood.