what's the difference between a good team that can't find a way to win and a bad team?
alasdair
The former gives you hope at the beginning of the season and then lets you down. At least with the latter you know what you're getting. Nobody thought the Raiders were going to make the playoffs this season.
The bills biggest problem is the potential they show at the beginning of each season. Finishing stone cold last is always better than middle of the road year after year. The jets have the same problem. Better to have a couple of weak seasons to grab those high draft picks then rebuild around a key player or two. It worked for the colts when manning got injured.
Then again Brady was picked up for a steal. Perhaps buffalo is built on an Indian graveyard?
As a matter of fact Ralph Wilson stadium IS built on an
Indian graveyard. Some fans point to that to explain the extremely improbable string of bad luck they've had since losing 4 straight Superbowls. Some other Bills fans call it the
Flutie Curse, because we're the only team in NFL history to bench their starting QB going into a playoff game when we benched Doug Flutie for Rob Johnson in 1999 even after Flutie led the Bills to a 10-5 playoff season. The Bills lost that game and haven't made the playoffs since.
I don't believe in that kind of crap but I'm also at a loss to explain the damn near statistical impossibility of what's happened to the Bills over the past 25 years. This season is a perfect snapshot of life as a Bills fan. Even if they were to get to 9-7, which has gotten teams into the playoffs in years past, the rest of the AFC would do just better enough to keep the Bills out like this season. The
Scott Norwood Superbowl miss. The
Music City Miracle. Week 17 of 2007 when the Steelers clinched and were resting their starters, all the Bills has to do was beat PIT's third stringers to get into the playoffs. They lost. 2009 vs. NE Bills have the lead with 2 minutes to go and Mckelvin fumbles on the kickoff, Pat's score a TD and steal the win. Same thing just happened against Kansas City last week. Literally dozens and dozens and dozens of highly questionable game-changing penalties against the Bills over those years. Far more than the norm, and I know because I watch the games of a ton of other teams. I could easily name a half dozen games over the past few years where the Bills fumbled int he redzone in Overtime only to lose by a field goal.
It's illogical to blame it all on the players because we've had all different kinds players and coaches on the field over the past 25 years, yet the result is the same every year. It's always some crazy, improbably, or downright unlucky plays that ruin a season for us. And now here we are, 2014 being suckered into thinking this year was going to be different because of all the talent on the roster and the downright nasty defense. Exactly one week ago we were 5-3 and talking playoff scenarios. 2 games within 7 days, the most critical 2 games of the season, and now the season is over.
Man I need to start watching golf or something.
http://www.buffalobillsdraft.com/20...t-heartbreaking-losses-of-the-21st-century/3/
