Bills 34 Seahawks 10

-Coast

The last time I felt like this after an opener was this day 5 years ago. The Bills beat 31-0 and all of a sudden were playoff and super bowl contenders. SI had Sam Adams, a new comer, on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the title "Off and Running" as he tumbled into the end zone. Am I going to go this far this year and say that this Bills team has finally arrived? Yes. This team is for real. I made the prediction yesterday that this game would be a blowout and it was. I know the Seahawks were without 2 receivers and were missing some starters on defense...but let's not so soon forget that we were missing our best offensive lineman and arguably our best linebacker.

So what is different about today and 9-7-2003? We have young players that are going to only get better, not get worse throughout the season. We have a 2nd year QB and a 2nd year RB who will do nothing but improve. We have a 26 year old stud at wide receiver. In 2003, we had an old QB (Bledsoe), our number one receiver was old (Moulds), and we had a running back that spent more time knocking up chicks than watching film (Henry). Also, the additions of Stroud and Mitchell seem to outweigh the additions of Spikes and Adams in the 2003 offseason...undoubtedly Stroud.

The first quarter started off a little shaky...which could be expected. There had to be some rust from Trent...who only played something like four series' in the pre season. The weather was also not very favorable the entire first half. After that though, Trent played well. 21-30 for 215 yards and a touchdown with zero turnovers...I will take that from him any day. Lynch was his usual self. He had 18 carries for 76 yards and a touchdown and didn't play in the fourth quarter because the game was out of reach. Evans added 4 catches for 102 yards, proving that him and Trent can hook up on the long ball at least as good or if not better than Lee and his boyfriend JP.

The Bills special teams has to be the best in the league. Roscoe looks like he is going to score every single time he touches the ball on a punt return. Moorman had some sick punts and oh yeah a touchdown pass to Ryan Denney on a fake field goal call that no one saw coming. Rian Lindell all of a sudden is just money.

What stood out the most today obviously was the defense. We all watched the game, so I don't need to get into stats...Marcus Stroud looked like an animal out there. What a difference maker he is at the D tackle position. The guy just moves people out of the way and cannot be blocked with one person. He looks to me like he is back in his pro bowl form. Kawika Mitchell was all over the field and Paul Posluszny was too coming off his injury. The Bills had 5 sacks...did they have that many sacks in any game last season? I really don't think so.

This was a good win and a great way to start the season. The real test will be next week. The Bills will go on the road to Jacksonville...who lost today at Tennessee. Jason Peters will hopefully be back. Oddly enough, the Bills week 2 opponent in 2003 was Jacksonville in Jacksonville and the Bills won that game 38-17. If Tom Brady is in fact out for the year, and the Bills go into Jacksonville and beat the Jaguars...is it too crazy to say that we are the favorites in the AFC East? I don't see why it would be.