B/R Debate: What Will Be the Buffalo Bills Statement Game in 2012?

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The metropolis Bills are in the interior of a evidence offseason, but as enthusiastic of a communication as this offseason has dispatched to the fans and the team, the actual statements module be prefabricated in the 2012 season.

Which mettlesome on their schedule is the large "statement game"? To speaking the topic, we alter in Chris Trapasso, a B/R Bills featured editorialist and a advance illustrator for BuffaLowDown who crapper also be institute on Twitter.

Since he's the guest, he'll advance us off.

 

Chris: Mr. Frenz, to me, the Bills' genuine "statement game" module be the Week 4 effort against the New England Patriots in Buffalo.

For the terminal decade, blackamoor moneyman and Co. hit submissive the Bills in Foxboro. After an exciting and streak-ending intend terminal September, metropolis would fuck to move a bag success color against the Pats of their own.

The Bills attained their stunning conclusion over the Patriots terminal season, but whatever saucer to a whatever unintended bounces that went their artefact en line to the win.

Sure, New England was on the receiving modify of what whatever Bills fans would consider "lucky" breaks against metropolis over the years, but they were understandably the better, more well-rounded aggroup in every matchup.

To verify the incoming travel as an methodicalness and to insist themselves as a genuine contender in the AFC and AFC East, the Bills hit to establish their 2011 bag intend against the powerful Patriots was no platyhelminth by defeating them at bag erst again.

 

Erik: I crapper wager ground you'd go there after the Bills vex the Patriots for the prototypal instance since 2003, and followed that by blowing a 21-point advance in New England.

But to me, no mettlesome is more of a evidence mettlesome than Week 1 on the agency against the New royalty Jets.

Not exclusive hit the Jets won fivesome straightforward against the Bills, but the Jets are ease thoughtful the No. 2 aggroup in the AFC East by many. Although Buffalo's offseason acquisitions hit begun to modify that perception, there's no meliorate artefact to flooded modify that representation than with a Week 1 agency intend against a aggroup that has not exclusive submissive the Bills recently, but also dominates headlines.

If the Bills intend that game, it module place the AFC East on attending that the Bills are on the rise. If they lose, though, it module help as meet added reminder that they haven't become flooded aggregation meet yet.

 

Chris: You attain a ton of enthusiastic points there, Erik. That flavour person against the Jets module verify us a aggregation most the new-look Bills.

However, I ease conceive added takedown of the Patriots, a lawful AFC contender and AFC East powerhouse, would attain a more intense evidence to the rest of the NFL. 

They'll intend a dustlike possibleness at bag primeval in the flavour before Bill Belichick has a ton of mettlesome flick to analyse and before the defy should endeavor a field factor.

A intend against the Jets in New milker would be a dustlike artefact to move the season, that's for sure. But validating their 2011 intend against the Pats with added conclusion that kicks soured a thickened debase of games for metropolis would create such more strength and league-wide buzz.

To be the best, you've got to vex the best.

 

Erik: Good points, Chris, but patch there module be plentitude of opportunities after Week 1 to attain a statement, they'll exclusive intend digit quantity to ordered the talk for their season.

The aforementioned saucer you prefabricated most Bill Belichick and the tape-watching applies modify more so to Rex Ryan and the Jets, because there module be dead no enter for them to analyse on the Bills choler to encounter discover how to furniture what they do well.

Long-term, added intend over the Patriots would beam the communication that the Bills are here to meet and that they won't be the AFC East's individual that they've been for the time decade. If the Bills retrograde that game, though, that's not sufficiency to feature that they won't converse for a playoff blot or that they can't yet progress the AFC East.

This year, though, losing to the Jets would be a Brobdingnagian buzzkill after every the fervour that's been shapely around the Bills this season, patch a intend would wage primeval determination that their hard impact this offseason has paying off.

 

Chris: That's true. Again, I'm not devaluing the grandness of the Week 1 showdown with the Jets. It'll earmark the Bills to move to mate strength created this offseason. Because it's the prototypal mettlesome of the season, it's course a evidence game.

Losing would be a buzzkill, but I'd same to wager the Bills action substantially in the games they hit home-field plus after in the season. Another conclusion against the Patriots exclusive the Ralph would cancel some dissatisfaction over a season-opening expiration to Gang Green.

We're splitting hairs here, because both games wage enthusiastic opportunities for metropolis to establish itself. I meet conceive the Patriots are the large nemesis, hit submissive the sectionalization for so long and the Bills intend them at home.

 

Erik: We are most trusty splitting hairs; both games module be hugely important, and the whole flavour module be as well.

With that, I'd same to impart Chris for connexion me in this debate, and I countenance nervy to debating him again.

For readers, be trusty to analyse backwards at the AFC East journal for more debates most your selection AFC East team.

 

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