Why are Buffalo Bills the ideal opponent of the New York Jets?

Week 1 has finally arrived and the New York Jets could not ask for a better opponent, the Buffalo Bills.

Jets Defense Vs. Invoice Offense

TThe New York Jets defense is perfectly designed to close teams like the Bills. The Bills will probably try to throw the ball into the Jets' throat next Sunday. With their three-headed attack of Frank Gore, T.J. Yeldon and Devin Singeltary, the identity of the Bills is built around the game of the race.

Yes, they improved their band WR by adding Cole Beasley and John Brown, but that's not enough. Beasley has 700 yards passing once in his career. John Brown has a combined catch rate of 41.2% over the past two seasons. These are just the improvements that a lot of fans and experts think they are. The Bills have simply gone from the worst group of NFL outsiders to one of the WR's five worst WR groups.

It's hard for Josh Allen to take advantage of the weaker defense of the Jets, their half-turners. The Bills will probably try to take advantage of Cole Beasley against Brian Poole, but Poole was arguably the best CB of the Jets at training camp and pre-season. John Brown is known to be a deep threat and the Bills will almost certainly try a shot or two in this match with Josh Allen and his gun arm. However, it is unlikely that Josh Allen and his 53% success rate over last year will benefit from our bad luck defense.

For those of you who think that Josh Allen will be much improved as a passer this year, he did not really show that during the pre-season. In total, Allen made 18/28 assists in pre-season, which corresponds to a completion percentage of 64.2%. That does not tell the whole story though. In two of the three games, Allen played in this pre-season with a success rate of less than 55%. His total number is supported by his second week performance against most Panthers substitutes when he finished 9/11. If you removed this game, Allen was only 9/17 years old, or 52.9%. This is very similar to the guy who completed only 52.8% of his passes last year.

Waiting for Allen to take advantage of everything in the passing game is a dangerous game. Allen did not throw for 250 yards even once in his rookie season. In games where Allen threw the ball 25 times or more, the tickets were 2 to 5. If you put that up to 30 or more times the bills were 0-5. In those games where he pitched 25 or more times, the Allen launched 8 touchdowns against 11 INT's and a completion percentage of 52.6%.

Running the Bills could be very dangerous this year. Josh Allen is one of the NFL's top runners in the NFL. He is accompanied by a dangerous trio of runners. The problem for the Bills is that the Jets defense is designed to stop the race. C.J. Mosley, Jamal Adams and Leonard Williams are all elite runners. That does not even include Steve McClendon, Henry Anderson and Quinnen Williams.

On paper, Sunday should be a long day for the Bills offense.

Jets Offense Vs. Bills Defense

This is a much more difficult argument. The Bills had one of the best defenses of the NFL last year. They finished second in the DVOA defense. There was not much they were not good at closing.

Robby Anderson is the only thing the Jets have proven. Anderson will be covered by Tre'Davious White on Sunday. The Jets saw this game once last year. Robby got the best of the whites that day, catching four of the seven targets for 76 yards and one touchdown. Robby is expected to have an outstanding fourth year with Adam Gase. Jets fans had a glimpse of Robby's strength at the end of last year. From Week 14 to Week 16, Robby had 312 yards on 20 assists and one touchdown in each game. The Jets are looking for Robby to maintain this kind of presence, and a match against White is the way he started this sequence last year.

The other advantage of the Jets in this game is Adam Gase. He will implement a new offense for Jets that bills have not seen before. The element of surprise should be a huge advantage for the Jets. With Gase planning for a second year, Sam Darnold and Le'Veon Bell, the Jets attack will be very different from last year.

Bell did not play in all the pre-sessions, but that should not matter. He is still one of the best RB of the NFL. Fans seem to forget how good he was in Pittsburgh before the tournament. Look for Bell and remind people who he really is, the only player in memory of NFL history to have accumulated an average of 100 yards and 50 rushing yards per game over a full season in the history of the NFL.

Finally, Sam Darnold seems ready to roll. Unlike Josh Allen, Sam Darnold opened fire in pre-season with an improved quarterback look. He looks a lot like the guy who got the best QBR and PFF scores in the last four games. Sam was 17/25 in his three preseason games, which represents a completion percentage of 68%. He has also led a TD team in each of his three games. Sam's completion percentage was still good for all three games: 80%, 71.4% and 62.5%. Sam seems ready to explode on the scene the following year his game that comes with Adam Gase's offensive will be a shock to the Bills system in the first week.

Injury report

Bills will have none of their main weapons on Sunday. Former Jet crew ace and special teams Andre Roberts are out of the game.

It's a big blow for the Bills who were hoping that Roberts will return both kicks and free kicks. The special teams were a weakness of the Jets in pre-season. While return coverage has not generally been one of these weaknesses, it's nice to see that the Jets will not have to deal with one of the best referrals of the match.

The bills will also probably start without a tight Tyler Kroft. Kroft broke his foot early in the off season and missed the entire program, training and preseason. He was limited to training this week and there was hope that he would play on Sunday. It is considered dubious for the match.

On the other hand, the Jets should lose only one player on Sunday. Avery Williamson is out for the year with a torn ACL. This is the only jet that should miss the opening week.

This means that Robby Anderson, Trumaine Johnson, Brian Winters, Kelechi Osemele and Braxton Berrios will all play. All of these guys were injured one way or another during the camp and were asking questions for the match.

Berrios will be the returner of the Jets kicks and has arrived at the Jets to heal a thigh injury. It will probably not be a problem on Sunday even though it is limited in practice all week. He is officially considered questionable, but Gase said that he would play.

Like Berrios, Trumaine Johnson and Robby Anderson have been restricted to training all week and are officially considered suspects for Sunday's game. Adam Gase has repeatedly said that both will play Sunday. Robby had contracted a calf injury at the training before the fourth pre-season game. While Trumaine Johnson pulled his hamstrings before the start of the pre-season.