Buffalo Rumblings
The results are in, Rumblers! We’re now 15 weeks into our season-long look at your confidence in the Buffalo Bills. From the start, it’s been about one thing: the postseason. While it’s still too early to find out how all that will go, the Bills are in the home stretch fighting to stay in the picture as a current wild card team.
Buffalo gets a shot at reclaiming some ground in the AFC East over the New England Patriots, but how do many of you feel about the Week 14 win over the Cincinnati Bengals while framing it as an appetizer for today’s clash in Gillette Stadium? Let’s take a look at the results from our latest Reacts survey.
Let’s just say you’re consistent… ly unsure about this team. Yes, it took another miraculous fourth quarter from the Bills to take down quarterback Joe Burrow and the Bengals and, yes, they’re two games back of New England in the AFC East race. It’s still safe to say this team has yet to hit its full stride, and the great news is that playoff season requires plenty of those strides. And luck. Lots of luck.
It’s pretty clear at this point that those who aren’t happy with the folks in charge at One Bills Drive will remain so until new folks are in charge of things. With that will come sweeping changes, which may not bring all things desired. But, it is the season of dreaming and a time for giving. So until doubt is fully removed from the equation, it’s likely these results continue this trend, even in victory. What trend?
Right now, just 26% of you gave a vote of confidence towards the direction of these Buffalo Bills. There’s a lot of work for general manager Brandon Beane, head coach Sean McDermott, defensive coordinator Bobby Babich, offensive coordinator Joe Brady, and special teams coordinator Chris Tabor.
Also, it would help if the wide receivers got their acts together, and then took it up several notches in the coming weeks.
Okay, so what about those Patriots and their fans over at Pats Pulpit? Well, things are going better, as one might imagine. Much better, actually — where 95% of readers polled are confident New England is headed in the right direction.
But wait, there’s more! Pats Pulpit asked about today’s outcome, and only 26% of those polled believe the Patriots lose today. Half of those who voted say New England wins, somewhere between 1 and 8 points, while 24% see the Pats winning by 8 or more points.
It gets worse here, folks. Pulpit readers are really confident in quarterback Drake Maye and his supporting cast. The vast majority of their readers, 79%, believe Maye will win a Super Bowl before Josh Allen.
Anyway…
National polls once again had readers pick the winners of Week 15, and there’s a clear trend:
Nationally, fans still believe in the Buffalo Bills. In terms of fan bases, Bills Mafia is precariously perched on...
