{ Postgame Reactions Thread - Week 1 }

[TheCincinnatiKid]

(09-10-2023, 06:25 PM)casear2727 Wrote: In 2003, the Patriots lost opening day 31-0 to a crappy 6 win Bills team, on their way to winning the Super Bowl.  

And with Zac being right up there with Belichick and Reid...... yeah, no.

2002 Patriots v Bills
38-7 Win
27-17 Win

2003 Patriots v Bills
0-31 Loss 
31-0 Win

2004 Patriots v Bills
31-17 Win
29-6 Win

Pretty funny that the Bills didn't even manage to get the better of the Pats that season (since the rematch was a reverse score of the same margin, tied on aggregate).

I'm pretty sure if you extended that, the Pats had a ridiculous plus score on the Bills for all of that decade. I guess a bit of apples and oranges though, since the Bills were nobody's 'nightmare matchup'! Ironically, other than for us... as they routinely beat us in the 90s/00s (I think?).

It's just hilarious to me that we're so quick to write off the losses to the Browns, all because we can't handle their D-Line, we can't stop their run game and we routinely let that beat us by like 20+ points.