It's that time of year again, where we start making predictions in earnest for the upcoming season. It's been a long offseason, and each team has undergone significant change - for better or worse. We'll run through each division and give you our opinion and those of the oddsmakers. You can then make your own prediction about who will win each division in our team season predictions page by clicking here.

We've already covered the AFC North and NFC North, now lets look at 2 of the most interesting and high-profile divisions in football, beginning with the AFC East.

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AFC East
The Betting:

New England Patriots 5/6

Miami Dolphins 10/3

Buffalo Bills 4/1

New York Jets 11/1

Unsurprisingly, the Pats are expected by bookies (and bettors) to win their 7th straight AFC East Championship (and their 12th in the last 13 attempts). You would expect nothing less after a Super Bowl win, but the 5/6 price indicates how much Tom Brady's suspension has allowed the Dolphins back into this discussion. The Bills are surprisingly still relevant to bookmakers, despite a pretty dire QB situation, while the Jets are 11/1 rank outsiders.

Team by Team

NENew England Patriots (12-4 in 2014, Super Bowl Champions)

Let's try our best to not let Deflategate dominate any more coverage. This is about games, and the only thing that matters to me is that Tom Brady is healthy and available to play. Is that the case right now? No.

So with Brady out for anywhere between 1-4 games (as it stands) you would probably say that the Patriots are at a mild disadvantage. At the moment, 50% of our users believe the Steelers will actually come away from Gillette Stadium with a win in week 1. That may change, but it seems unlikely that it'll deviate more than 5-6%. It highlights the lack of confidence in Jimmy Garropolo, but I think there's something to be said for the Patriots in that game and the next two, against Buffalo and Jacksonville respectively.

In any case, I think the worst case scenario for the Pats is being 0-4 without Brady, while the Dolphins start 4-0. Realistically, that isn't going to be the case, as both teams are far more like 2-2 teams on paper in my view.

Beyond Brady, the New England offense is largely the same. Only at RB has there been large overhauls, with Stevan Ridley and Shane Vereen departing in free agency, and LeGarrette Blount now what passes for a starter under Bill Belichick. At WR, Reggie Wayne is an interesting addition, but a lot will again rest on the talents of Rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman and Brandon LaFell.

On defense, the big loss is Vince Wilfork, and what concerns me about the Pats is how they've performed without Wilfork at Nose Tackle in the past, however it clearly concerned Belichick too, as he invested in Malcom Brown in the first round of the draft to play alongside Silver Siliga. The Patriots are apparently happy with their depth, and it is an impressive defense on paper. I'd even go as far as to say there isn't a particular weak spot, beyond DB depth and the aforementioned NT issue.

One thing is for sure, the Patriots, even with external forces aligned against them, will not simply roll over and accept their fate.

*Key player on Offense: Rob Gronkowski *- Stay healthy, Gronk.

*Key player on Defense: Malcom Brown - *He's not the first DT to feature on these 'key player' lists, and that's because teams without dominant inside players are vulnerable to any team with a run-first ethos. Look at the division and you know why that would be a big weakness against some poor passing attacks.

Predicted record: 13-3 - Even with a potentially difficult opening few weeks, the team that won the Super Bowl last season is largely in-tact. Give them some extra motivation? Yikes.

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BUFBuffalo Bills (9-7 in 2014)**

I am not particularly high on either the Bills or Dolphins this season, and my main worry for Buffalo is quite simply that they need to be uber conservative with their 'Quarterbacks'. They've had a great rushing attack for a number of years and it hasn't worked out, equally, their defense is the same (in the main) as Doug Marrone's from last season.

The biggest difference is of course, Rex Ryan. Ryan has shown over the last decade that there are few better when it comes to building a playmaking D. He'll certainly put the beastly front 4 (Mario Williams, Marcel Dareus, Kyle Williams, Jerry Hughes) in position to cement it's status as the best in the league. There are ball hawks in the secondary, capable linebackers... they're a good team on paper.

Now then. The Offense. This is truly a great unit that looks rudderless. Lets look at the positives first.

The Running back scenario is great, an improvement even on the last few years with the addition of LeSean McCoy. At WR, Percy Harvin is a playmaker, although I'll be honest, I think Robert Woods is the better player of the two in terms of consistency and work ethic. Sammy Watkins, last year's first rounder, is cemented in as the unquestioned Z receiver, while they aggressively pursued the most underrated pas-catching TE in the league in Charles Clay in free agency to add another dimension to their offense.

The right side of the O-line may be a concern, and also, I would worry about the situations they're going to face in terms of protecting either the immobile (Matt Cassel), the inexperienced (Tyrod Taylor) or the immobile and inexperienced (E.J. Manuel).

Yes, that QB situation is a mess. They haven't thrown an INT between them in preseason, finally giving the Bills a chance at getting that elusive preseason championship... you get the point I'm sure. I would hazard a guess that Manuel may start because the team is desperate to find that he is worthy of the first rounder they wasted spent on him 2 years ago, but in all honesty, I'd start Taylor, because you know what you have in the other two - average at best players.

Having said that, if Ryan decides he can win with a great D (Baltimore style), then maybe he'll just stick Matt Cassel in and say 'Don't do what you've done for the last 4 years please Matt. Don't throw the ball to the opposition'

*Key Player on Offense: Charles Clay *- A TE can be a useful commodity with a great QB. With a terrible one, they're essential.

*Key Player on Defense: Rex Ryan *- The players are good - can the scheme make them truly top level after a couple of years where they threatened to deceive?

Predicted Record: 10-6 - I don't think the Bills are realistically much worse than last season, but more to the point, I think Miami and the Jets might struggle and give up wins.

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** Miami Dolphins (8-8 in 2014)**

People are really high on the Fins, and I feel like they weren't paying attention to how Joe Philbin has pretty much failed to convert Ryan Tannehill's improvements individually into offensive production. He still hasn't addressed the crippling fumble problem (9 in each of his last 3 seasons) that isn't acceptable for a rushing QB. Let me put it another way - Tannehill isn't Russell Wilson. He is a good runner, but not great, so when he fumbles while rushing, it's not offset by someone like Wilson scoring 6 TD's last season with the ball in his hands. Tannehill scored 1.

That said, his accuracy leapt to 66% last season and he showed signs of progress, apart from his 12 INTs. The problem is the wins just don't come for this team under Philbin. What would massively worry me is the mediocrity of the players Miami has at it's disposal on offense. The O-line is banged up (Mike Pouncey is injured, Branden Albert is injured, and so is his backup) that will put Tannehill into plenty of scenarios where him coughing up the football is likely.

On top of that, the team has invested in receivers that I am skeptical of right now. Greg Jennings had a poor QB run in Minnesota, but he didn't really help proceedings and has lost his top-level ability by all accounts. Kenny Stills was a role-player in New Orleans, yet right now, he's slated to start opposite Jennings, although a caveat would be that Jarvis Landry looks good enough to supplant one of the two. At TE, the brittle Jordan Cameron is a good player, but he simply couldn't stay healthy in Cleveland, and that Florida humidity isn't going to change that. At running back, Lamar Miller is the definition of a running back who will get you 900-1000 yards a season, while you count on one hand the number of guys he makes miss over the whole year.

The defense took a hit when Louis Delmas went down, but their biggest signing was Ndamokung Suh, the league's best active DT. He is complimented by a strong group of playmakers in the front 7, but a possible lack of depth behind Brent Grimes (CB) and Reshad Jones (S) in the secondary.

I'm worried this team is set up to fail, but more importantly, that they and everyone else is convinced they have a shot at the division. That doesn't bode well for Philbin, who is really on his last chance with Miami.

Key Player on Offense: Ryan Tannehill - Do not fumble, do not throw interceptions. Do pass to your guys. That's a solid start.

Key Player on Defense: Koa Misi - The guy who'll run the show and try to translate the talent in that front 7 into plays.

*Prediction: 6-10 - *Failure to capitalize on New England's problems + lack of playmakers = new coach and new crisis in 2016

NYJNew York Jets (4-12 in 2014)

Todd Bowles has got it rough for his first HC gig. The Jets aren't terrible, but they're shackled to a pretty dire QB situation, their best players on D are injured or suspended, and the air of a circus continues to hang around this franchise like a bad smell.

Geno Smith showed signs of improvement, so the Jets carefully orchestrated a scenario where he had his jaw broken by a potential defensive contributor, who was immediately signed by the rival Bills upon being cut. They're pressing ahead with the able-but-still-not-100% Ryan Fitzpatrick, which is admirable, but it will be hard for them to keep up with other teams.

On offense the biggest worry is that the Running Back is Chris Ivory (17 receptions in 2014) and the current starting TE is Jeff Cumberland, a solid but hardly brilliant player who will struggle to be the outlet Fitzpatrick needs. My point here is that the Jets have all the outside tools in Eric Decker and Brandon Marshall, to go deep and/or play possession football, but they have a QB who... well, let's just say that's not quite his strong point.

On D, they have a suspension to Sheldon Richardson, a gimpy Muhammed Wilerson, and last night, rookie DT Leonard Williams suffered a knee injury. Although that injury isn't a season-ender, it's enough to put him in doubt for week 1. With Richardson out, that's huge.

Also on defense, Antonio Cromartie, the matador, is playing at right corner. SUre, Darrelle Revis is the left corner, but that just means we're about to see Cro get beat deep more than usual. The safeties are... well they're not good. Marcus Gilchrist and Calvin Pryor need to be a lot better than their early career form to keep this from exploding once offenses figure out this D.

*Key Player on Offense: Nick Mangold *- When mangold has been injured, the Jets O-line has generally been a mess. When he's healthy, they have an outside shot of protecting Fitzpatrick against a wholeheartedly rampant division of awesome D-linemen

Key Player on Defense: Muhammed Wilkerson - You could make the case he's one of the best pound-for-pound D-linemen in the NFL. he'll need to be without help from Richardson in weeks 1-4.

Predicted record: 2-14 - I don't see where the wins come from, but I sure see where the dysfunction could come from (Marshall, Smith etc)

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