Bills schedule anything but easy

The Bills haven't made the playoffs for seven straight years. If their 2007 schedule is as brutal as it looks, that postseason drought will extend to eight years.

There is one game in the first eight the Bills will be favored in. With Denver in the home opener and road trips to Pittsburgh and New England, the Bills could easily start out 0-3. Their next three games (against the N.Y. Jets, Dallas on Monday night and Baltimore following a bye week) are no picnic either, even though they will be played at Ralph Wilson Stadium. The Bills need to win at least two of those contests.

There are games the Bills can win, but there are very few guaranteed "Ws.'' The Bills were better than expected last season under coach Dick Jauron. But I'm not sure a winning season, much less a playoff berth, is possible in 2007 with this schedule.

---Allen Wilson

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[Jaquandor]

It's worth remembering that there are always teams that don't live up to the previous season's results -- good teams one year prove surprisingly bad the next. The Bills' schedule is only that hard if every team on it is as good as it was last year, and that never happens anymore. So there's a reason for hope (just as long as the Bills themselves aren't one of the teams that get worse!).