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This is going to be a shootout tomorrow on both sides - Brady bomb show scoring as much as he can to make up for god knows how many yards of offense the Bills will be running up.
While anything is possible, I'm not sure when the Bills became the '99 Rams. Consider:
- The Chiefs are a dumpster fire this year, including fumbling the opening kickoff of their season. The Bills had scoring drives of 23, 1, 32 and 28 yards against them.
- The Raiders were up 21-3 at the half against the Bills. Then gave up 5 straight TD drives to Bills, gifting them with 6 2nd half penalties (4 for 1st downs) for 65 yards...including a penalty for challenging an unchallengable play.
- Fitzpatrick has a completion percentage of 63.4%...slightly better than the San-grenade and Tavaris "What do I have to do to get benched" Jackson. Slightly worse than Matt Cassel.
- Fitzpatrick has a YPA of 6.6. Not quite as good as Alex Smith but MUCH better than Tavaris "Seriously, Charlie Whitehurst is making $8M backing me up" Jackson.
- Fitzpatrick has 7 TD passes but only 1 outside the 12 yd line and only 2 outside the 7 yd line.
- Fred Jackson leads the league in rushing but he got nearly half of his yards in 3 runs against the Raiders (who were 29th against the run last year).
The only fear I have against the Bills offense is endless dumpoffs to Jackson and Spiller, resulting in death by 1000 paper cuts. Outside of the "any given Sunday" phenomenon, I just don't see why this is a bad matchup for the Pats in general or their defense in particular.