TONY’S TAKE – A PREVIEW OF BILLS-JAGUARS
- Tony Fiorello
- Jan 10
- 20 min read
by Tony Fiorello
Welcome to the 2025 NFL season’s Wild Card Weekend. Here at Buffalo Sports Page we will attempt to inform and educate our readers about the upcoming playoff games and what each team might do to emerge victorious.
One of the AFC’s wild card games will take place at EverBank Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida as the Buffalo Bills will face the Jacksonville Jaguars. Here’s what you should know:
JAGS’ OFFENSE HOT AS OF LATE
One of the NFL’s better offensive minds in Liam Coen has arrived in Jacksonville to take over the head coaching position of the Jaguars. Coen, a former coordinator with the Los Angeles Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has brought a version of Sean McVay’s block of the West Coast offense to Duval County and the scheme has been effective. It’s one with plenty of under-center play-action, shifts, motions, high-low concepts and downfield option routes with defined reads, condensed formations and no-huddle occasionally sprinkled in.
Coen has a solid triggerman for this attack in Trevor Lawrence, the quarterback taken from Clemson with the first overall selection in 2021’s draft. The mobile and accurate Lawrence was touted as the most pro-ready signal caller in years but went through the usual growing pains while toiling under former coaches Doug Pederson and Urban Meyer. However he’s become a more confident and aggressive passer as of late – perhaps finally realizing his potential.
Yet he’s not without flaws. Lawrence’s delivery is elongated so he misses some easy throws with a good but not great arm, and when he has bodies flying around him he rushes himself because he needs to take big steps in the pocket due to his long legs.
The Jags do have talent at the skill positions supporting Lawrence. Former college teammate Travis Etienne was also taken by Jacksonville in 2021 to add some explosiveness to their backfield, and he’s shown to be effective while running behind formations with multiple tight ends and used in space to take advantage of his speed on outside zone plays (they also prefer duo and inside zone).
Lawrence’s targets in the passing game have had one of the highest drop rates in the NFL but they can hurt opposing secondaries. Veteran Jakobi Meyers was acquired from the Las Vegas Raiders at the trade deadline and has been a good fit with his route-running acumen and separation abilities. The other two wideouts in Coen’s offense are Brian Thomas Jr., who has flashed length and vertical ability and the emerging Parker Washington – who has taken advantage of the injury to highly-touted two-way rookie Travis Hunter to set career highs in many statistical categories (Hunter is a dynamic, twitchy athlete with speed and quickness). Brenton Strange is a solid tight end.
The Jags’ offensive line is made up of Ezra Cleveland, Anton Harrison, Patrick Mekari, Robert Hainsey and Cole Van Lanen. They allowed 41 sacks in 17 games, just the 20th-best mark in pro football. Kicker Cam Little has also connected on the two longest field goals in league annals.
Jacksonville has won eight in a row and during that span have had the best point differential in the NFL. They ended the regular season sixth in scoring, 11th in total yards and 12th in passing but they were just 20th in rushing.
JACKSONVILLE’S DEFENSE UNDERRATED
Coen’s defensive coordinator is Anthony Campanile, a former linebackers coach for the Green Bay Packers and Miami Dolphins. Campanile’s biggest influences have been ex-colleagues Brian Flores and Vic Fangio – while he draws from Flores’ aggressive blitz packages (Jacksonville doesn’t blitz at a high rate – they were just 20th this year but they do have creative overload concepts with defensive backs and fire zones), his coverages borrow heavily from Fangio.
Relying on a four-man pass rush with stunts, twists and slants and two-deep safety looks often, Campanile employs well-disguised hybrid coverages that feature man and zone concepts – especially Cover Four, or “quarters”, with each defensive back dividing the field into fourths and matchup principles to take away vertical concepts.
Cover Four has been gaining in popularity in recent years throughout the NFL. According to Smart Football’s Chris B. Brown, “It’s the most important defensive scheme of the past decade…. At first glance, Cover 4 looks like an anti-pass prevent tactic, with four secondary defenders playing deep. But therein lies its magic. The four defenders are actually playing a matchup zone concept, in which the safety reads the tight end or inside receiver. If an offensive player lined up inside releases on a short pass route or doesn’t release into the route, the safety can help double-team the outside receiver. If the inside receiver breaks straight downfield, it becomes more like man coverage. This variance keeps quarterbacks guessing and prevents defenses from being exploited by common pass plays like four verticals, which killed eight-man fronts.
“The real key to Cover 4, however, is that against the run both safeties become rush defenders (remember, the outside cornerbacks play deep). This allows defenses to play nine men in the box against the run – a hat-tip to the 46’s overwhelming force.”
The Jaguars boast a speedy pass-rushing duo in former first round picks Josh Hines-Allen and Travon Walker. They are joined by former San Francisco 49er Arik Armstead and Davon Hamilton up the middle. This defensive line boasts a lot of size but they can be had on run schemes such as whams, traps and duos. Foyesade Olukun – who is an excellent run stopper – and Devin Lloyd, an aggressive but savvy cover specialist, man the linebacker position.
Jacksonville’s men in the secondary include Montaric Brown, Greg Newsome II and Jarrian Jones (Jourdan Lewis is injured) and their safeties are Andrew Wingard and Eric Murray, who can match up with tight ends.
The Jags have done well in some categories but poorly in others. They’re first versus the run (and the third team since 2000 to not allow a 75-yard rusher in a season), second in takeaways, eighth in points allowed and were 11th in total yards surrendered, but were 29th against the pass and 27th in sacks.
BUFFALO’S DEFENSE USUALLY GOOD, BUT HAS HAD A ROUGH 2024 AND ‘25
For most of head coach Sean McDermott’s time in Buffalo, the Bills’ defense was one of the league’s best. Points allowed (fourth in the NFL in that category in 2023), total yards per game allowed (ninth), passing yards given up (seventh), rushing yards surrendered (15th), takeaways (third), interceptions (tied for fourth) and sacks (fourth, tied for second-most in their history with the 2014 team) have generally been the categories that the Bills have excelled at over the years, with 2023’s sack total being the best of the McDermott era.
2024, however, was a year of transition for the Bills on defense. Due to age and salary cap complications, out the door were longtime veterans such as Jordan Poyer, Tre’Davious White, Dane Jackson, Shaq Lawson, Leonard Floyd, Linval Joseph, Tim Settle, Kaylon “Poona” Ford and Tyrel Dodson.
Especially when one includes names from the past on the defensive line such as Kyle Williams, Marcel Dareus, Jerry Hughes, Mario Addison, Star Lotulelei, Quinton Jefferson, Carlos “Boogie” Basham, Trent Murphy, Vernon Butler, Justin Zimmer, Efe Obada, Harrison Phillips, Dawuane Smoot, Austin Johnson and Casey Toohill – that’s a lot of turnover during the last eight years. The answer, according to McDermott, general manager Brandon Beane and defensive coordinator Bobby Babich, is youth and cheap veterans to provide cost-effective depth (Buffalo made it to the AFC title game last year with the third-most dead money on the salary cap in the NFL and used just 71 percent of the cap).
Some of those younger players – albeit young veterans since they are in their fifth and sixth professional seasons, respectively – who have been asked to take on a greater role include Greg Rousseau and A.J. Epenesa, who can both line up on the edge and go inside in passing situations. Da’Quan Jones, perhaps their best run-stuffing lineman, is effective on T-T stunts with Ed Oliver (out for the rest of the regular season), an excellent gap penetrator.
They are backed up by familiar faces in Lawson, Jordan Phillips (out for the playoffs) and second-year men Javon Solomon and DeWayne Carter (Carter is out for the season with a torn Achilles tendon) while rookies Deone Walker, T.J. Sanders and Landon Jackson (currently injured) learn the ropes of the NFL. Ex-Charger Joey Bosa, a five-time Pro Bowler and 10-year pro, fills the role that future Hall of Famer Von Miller settled into after a torn ACL 11 games into his first season compromised his play on the field. Additionally, veterans Matthew Judon, Larry Ogunjobi and Michael Hoecht provide valuable depth (Hoecht, out for the season after tearing his Achilles tendon, is an intelligent and versatile chess piece who can be deployed in multiple ways).
Over the years Buffalo has been inconsistent in two areas – creating a consistent pass rush and stopping the run. The run issues are mainly caused by poor tackling (their missed and broken tackle percentage has been among the highest in the NFL for years), a lack of gap integrity, subpar eye discipline, inefficient communication and an inability to get off blocks and handle motion and misdirection (which causes issues with leverage, spacing and run fits).
Schematically the Bills’ defense mostly relies on basic zones after the snap (they’re typically among the top units in the NFL in usage of coverages with two high safeties such as Cover Two, Two-Man, Four and Six, although they’ve used more single-high coverages recently so they could put more bodies in the box to stop the run and limit communication) but before the snap it is complex. Safety rotations to disguise their intentions keep opposing quarterbacks guessing and selective pressure looks at the line of scrimmage and coverage exchanges are the team’s calling cards.
Those blitz looks usually happen in the A-gaps with the smaller, but smart, speedy and athletic Matt Milano and Terrell Bernard to confuse opposing offensive lines and quarterbacks, but Buffalo rarely sends five or more pass rushers – their favorite blitz tactic besides A-gappers are four-man zone exchanges, although they’ve incorporated more fire zones as of late. In 2024’s regular season they were 27th in blitz rate but Buffalo blitzed Lamar Jackson on 15 out of 31 drop-backs (48.4%) in the playoffs, their fifth-highest blitz rate in a game under McDermott and their highest in a game since Week 15 of 2021, according to Next Gen Stats.
Bernard (out for Sunday) has become a good blitzer and coverage ‘backer – his 6.5 sacks in 2023 were the most by an off-the-ball linebacker in Bills annals and he became the first NFL player since Seth Joyner in 1991 with six sacks, three picks and three fumble recoveries in a season. He and Milano are also adept at being used to spy quarterbacks – they spied Jackson on every third down in last year’s postseason – but Bernard, like most of his teammates, has dealt with injuries and hasn’t quite looked like himself.
For the third straight year, Milano suffered another major injury – this time a pectoral problem (although he’s healthy for now). When he misses time, Dorian Williams usually picks up the slack. Williams has displayed flashes of quickness and burst but is sometimes slow to key and diagnose at the line of scrimmage. He also takes false steps and needs to process better in coverage, but is athletic, long and fluid and has improved with more experience. He had increased playing time in the playoffs to stop Baltimore’s running game, as evidenced by being on the field for a third of Buffalo’s snaps.
Additional depth comes from former Carolina Panther Shaq Thompson and Joe Andreessen. Andreessen, a University at Buffalo product who hails from nearby Lancaster, showed excellent diagnostic skills at the line of scrimmage in the preseason while also displaying strong hands, a quick downhill trigger that allows him to shoot gaps well and some speed and range. It helps that he played in a similar role as Milano while in college. Thompson, meanwhile, has turned back the clock with some strong performances in both pass coverage and run support.
The Bills have mainly utilized nickel personnel over the last several years (90.8 percent in ’21, 94.8 in ’22, 79.7 in ’23, 78.3 last year and around 60 so far this year) but their percentage of 4-3 base personnel has gone up this year to combat the run (around 20 percent in ’25 and they’ve added in some 3-3-5 looks down the stretch). When Milano is out with injury, they’ve also increased their usage of dime personnel with three safeties to help offset his loss in pass coverage (17.2 percent in ’23, 15.9 in ’24 and around 20 so far this year) and in the past, that setup featured Poyer near the line of scrimmage, Micah Hyde and ex-Ram Taylor Rapp on the back end.
The Bills’ safety position is currently manned by the aging but still capable Poyer and Cole Bishop (an underrated and cerebral athlete who can also drop down in the box). Rapp, who is better playing near the line of scrimmage and the rangy and physical but inconsistent Damar Hamlin are both on injured reserve – filling their absence is veteran Darnell Savage.
At the boundary cornerback spots are White (who, like Poyer, is back after a year away to replace Rasul Douglas) and Christian Benford, and they are backed up by Jackson (another experienced face back on the active roster) and speedy rookies Max Hairston (out for Sunday) and Dorian Strong (also on injured reserve). Slot corner Taron Johnson remains strong in the quickness and tackling departments and he’s backed up by Cam Lewis and rookie Jordan Hancock, who can both fill in at safety too. Hancock has shown to be effective as a single-high post defender.
2024 saw the Bills end the regular season 11th in points allowed, 12th against the run, 17th in total yards, tied for 18th in sacks and 24th versus the pass. They were also 29th in third down percentage, gave up the most completions, yards and touchdowns in the NFL on screen plays and allowed nine touchdowns on plays of four seconds or longer – the most in the league according to Cover 1’s Eric Turner. However, they were third in takeaways and were fifth-best in allowing plays of 20 yards or more.
Yet this unit’s 2025 season has been quite uneven. Although they were first versus the pass, seventh in total yards given up and 12th in points allowed, they were fourth-worst versus the run (their number of takeaways has gone up though – Buffalo had just five in their first six games and have had 15 in their last 11, the ninth-best mark in that span).
Clearly McDermott – who has had a bigger say in play-calling on gameday lately – and Babich have had their work cut out for them on this side of the ball. But there have been some positive signs that their defense is turning the corner lately. Since Week 12 the Bills were second in total yards and against the pass, ninth in scoring and 10th versus the run.
BILLS’ OFFENSE IS UPPER-ECHELON, BUT QUESTIONS PERSIST ABOUT PASSING GAME
For six consecutive seasons, the Bills have boasted one of the NFL’s elite offenses for the first time since the K-Gun was running roughshod over the league more than 30 years ago. Led by quarterback Josh Allen’s improved processing skills both pre and post-snap, ball placement, patience within the pocket and touch on passes and a cadre of gifted pass-catchers, those factors have allowed Buffalo to become one of the most feared attacks in pro football.
Last year the strong-armed and mobile Allen was ninth in passer rating and rushing touchdowns and tied for seventh in passing scores. That allowed him to be named the NFL’s Most Valuable Player by the Associated Press, an honor previously bestowed upon just two other Bills (Thurman Thomas in 1991 and O.J. Simpson in ‘73) – this season Allen ended up fifth in passer rating, ninth in passing touchdowns and third in rushing scores.
In 2023 Buffalo was sixth in scoring, fourth in total yards, seventh in rushing and eighth in passing. They were also fifth in red zone efficiency, yet their offense performed poorly over a six-game stretch where they averaged just 20.5 points per game. It resulted in then-offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey getting the boot in favor of quarterbacks coach and former Carolina Panthers play-caller Joe Brady.
Like their defensive counterparts, the Bills went through changes on this side of the ball because of age, the salary cap and a new coordinator. With Brady taking over the role full-time, the biggest philosophical question on offense for Buffalo was how to retain elements of what made them so good in the first place while adding new and fresh concepts.
Between 2018 and ‘23, Buffalo’s offense was an Erhardt-Perkins system brought in from New England by then-coordinator Brian Daboll. It was built upon concepts involving option and crossing routes from the slot, downfield routes from the outside, run-pass options (especially in the red zone), designed quarterback runs to take advantage of Allen’s mobility and alignments that created favorable matchups and some trick plays with jet/orbit motion and sweeps. It was mostly out of “11” personnel groupings (one back, one tight end and three wide receivers) and “10” personnel (one back, no tight ends, four receivers) – and they would also go no-huddle from time to time to limit the opposition’s defensive calls.
The Bills’ multi-receiver sets were traditionally their offensive calling card. In 2020 they used four wide receivers or more 155 times – the second-most in the NFL at the time – and they utilized someone in motion on 43 percent of their offensive snaps, a huge increase from their 25 percent rate in 2019. Daboll, the ex-head coach of the New York Giants, also called for a passing play on 64 percent of their first downs, according to ESPN Stats and Information – no team with a winning record in the prior 20 years did it more than Buffalo. Nowadays the Bills are the opposite as they pass on first down at one of the lowest rates in the NFL.
Daboll’s successor, Ken Dorsey, got away from some of those concepts and tried to rely on the talent at his disposal winning one-on-one matchups instead of having the scheme get them open. Once Brady was promoted, the Bills returned to them. He also included more under-center formations and play-action (which can still stand to increase after being a top-four team in run-fakes in 2020 and ’21), pre-snap shifts, motions and designed passes to running backs and route combinations with defined reads for Allen so he can play within timing and structure, but he does need to be better at creating spacing in his route concepts – especially at the intermediate levels.
Brady got his start in the NFL working for the New Orleans Saints and then-coach Sean Payton. Payton himself came from a melting pot of a background including stints running the Erhardt-Perkins scheme for Bill Parcells in Dallas and learning the West Coast offense from Jim Fassel with the New York Giants and from Jon Gruden during their one-year stint together in Philadelphia in 1997, so Brady will bring a similar approach to the table while likely keeping some things the same in Buffalo.
Their biggest transaction on offense last year was trading the aging Stefon Diggs to Houston. Diggs (now in New England), while never a burner on the outside, was an exceptional route runner who specialized in making contested catches and operated well out of bunch and stack formations – leading him to re-write many of the Bills’ single season receiving records.
In addition to Diggs, Buffalo has let veterans like John Brown, Emmanuel Sanders, Cole Beasley, Isaiah McKenzie, Jamison Crowder, Trent Sherfield, Deonte Harty and Amari Cooper walk over the years. Many of them were productive, but nothing can last forever – hence the overhaul of the Bills’ wide receiver room.
The Payton offense is built through having big, physical targets who can get open over the middle of the field, especially on deep in-cuts, or “dig” routes (although Buffalo hasn’t utilized them much). Payton has employed such players in those roles before like Marques Colston, Jimmy Graham, Michael Thomas and Courtland Sutton, and the drafting of Keon Coleman from Florida State last year fits the bill for Brady.
Coleman, whose game evoked comparisons to Colston, Brandon Marshall and Anquan Boldin coming out of college, brings size and physicality to the boundary ‘X’ position (and possibly the slot) with good body control and strong hands to make contested catches and has some run after the catch ability. He does need to work on his speed, quickness and ability to beat press coverage – along with learning how to be a pro athlete – but in time he may improve in those areas.
Along with Coleman is Curtis Samuel (out for Sunday), who can line up both in the slot and outside the numbers and take handoffs, free agent pickup Joshua Palmer (out for the season) and the speedy pair of Brandin Cooks and Mecole Hardman. Shifty pass-catcher Khalil Shakir mans the slot with his quickness, sure hands and savviness to get open versus zone coverage, Gabriel Davis has returned to supply depth and Tyrell Shavers, a good blocker, has proven to be a new weapon after making the team’s active roster out of training camp. Overall, this group doesn’t possess a ton of speed beyond Cooks and Hardman – which makes the ability to manufacture intermediate and vertical plays harder.
Tight end Dawson Knox is joined by Dalton Kincaid and their diverse skillsets have allowed the Bills to throw curveballs at opponents with multiple tight end sets. Kincaid, who can line up as the boundary ‘X’ receiver in three-by-one alignments, lived up to the hype with 73 receptions as a rookie two years ago, the most of any first-year Bill and surpassed Pete Metzelaars for the most catches by a Bills tight end in one season. He also became the fourth rookie tight end since 1960 with 70 or more catches in a year (the two became the first pair of Bills tight ends with 400-plus receiving yards in a season in 2025).
The Bills’ offensive line is composed of Dion Dawkins, David Edwards, Connor McGovern (taking over at center for the departed Mitch Morse), O’Cyrus Torrence and Spencer Brown. This crew, along with fullback Reggie Gilliam has mainly executed outside zone runs along with zone-reads, pin-and-pull concepts, traps (especially with Dawkins as the puller), counters, sweeps, split inside zone/duo and sprint draw plays sprinkled in for running back James Cook.
Cook, who has rushed for over 1,000 yards in three straight seasons – the first back to accomplish that feat for Buffalo since Thurman Thomas did it eight years in a row from 1989-96 – boasts great vision, patience, burst and cutback ability (while he did have six fumbles, the most in the NFL among running backs, he also recorded a career-high 12 touchdowns) and is backed up by physical second-year man Ray Davis, who also excels as a kick returner. Ex-Jet Ty Johnson brings solid receiving skills to the table.
The starting front five used to be iffy in providing push in the running game and in pass protection but has become a strength in recent years. In the past, most of the team’s rushing production came from Allen’s legs and few came from their backs – the Bills’ rushing attempts per game in 2022, 18.2, was last in the NFL but that number has jumped to the highest in the NFL since Brady was promoted.
In 2023 Allen was taken down just 24 times overall in 17 regular season outings, the best mark in pro football, and the team again led the league with just 14 sacks allowed last year (tied for the sixth-least since 2000). But the Bills’ pass protection has regressed back to the norm this season by allowing 40 sacks in 17 games – the most Allen has ever been sacked in a season. Although he and the offensive line have struggled to identify blitzes on the road and give up free rushers too often, that’s also on the team’s wide receivers failing to consistently create separation in the passing game (in turn causing Allen to hold on to the ball longer).
Buffalo also carried over their trend of using an extra offensive lineman to help in the running game. Now that Edwards has moved into the starting lineup, the sixth guy is Alec Anderson and the Bills had the highest rate of offensive snaps with six linemen on the field in ’24 – with most of them being called runs, and were near the top of the NFL in yards per carry and yards per play with six linemen on the field (rookie tight end Jackson Hawes, an excellent blocker and the replacement for Quintin Morris, is being used more in this regard with “13” personnel looks which diversifies what they can throw at opponents).
Another area the Bills needed to clean up was protecting the ball. They used to be one the league’s sloppiest teams – Allen had 14 interceptions and 13 fumbles in 2022 and he led the NFL with 18 interceptions in ’23. Last year Allen cut down on his interception total significantly with just six – a sign of progress in this regard (Allen became the third signal caller in NFL history to start a season with 10 touchdowns and no picks through his team’s first seven games).
In fact, the Bills tied the league record for fewest turnovers in a season with just eight (with the 2019 Saints). They also became the first team ever with less than 15 sacks allowed and fewer than 15 turnovers in the same season – this season they were tied for 15th with 19 turnovers.
Buffalo ended the 2024 regular season second in points scored (the highest scoring team in franchise history) and red zone efficiency, 10th in total yards and ninth in rushing and passing and became the first team to ever have 30 passing and 30 rushing touchdowns in one season. They, along with the Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders, were also the top four teams in the NFL on fourth down conversion rate.
This season they were first in the NFL in rushing, fourth in total yards and scoring, 15th in passing and near the top of the league in explosive offensive plays (rushes of 10 yards and passes of 20 yards), under-center run rate (especially on “duo” calls) and red zone efficiency. The Bills, however, have gone just one for seven on two-point conversions this year.
Ex-49er Mitch Wishnowsky is the team’s third punter this year (he didn’t punt once against the Bengals – the first time the Bills have done that in three years) and kicker Tyler Bass is out for the season due to a groin injury – with 41-year-old former All-Pro Matt Prater replacing him. Prater, who holds the NFL record for most 50-plus yards field goals in a career, also owned the league mark for longest career field goal after he connected on a 64-yarder in 2013.
12 FACTS TO MUSE OVER
· The Bills have clinched a playoff berth for the seventh straight season – a new franchise record (they’re also the fifth team ever to reach at least 11 wins in six straight seasons, joining New England from 2010-19, Indianapolis from 2003-09, Kansas City from 2018-24 and Dallas from 1976-81). Previously it was six from 1988-93.
· Buffalo has won 12 games in back-to-back seasons for the second time ever (1990-91).
· Cook has become the first Bill to lead the NFL in rushing since O.J. Simpson in 1976, and he has the third-most rushing yardage in a season ever by a Buffalo Bill with 1,621 (ironically, Simpson crossed the 2,000 yard mark in the first year Highmark Stadium and Cook closed it out with a rushing crown).
· The Bills will attempt to win their first road playoff game since the 1992 AFC title game in Miami. They’ve gone 0-8 since, and it will be their first postseason as a wild card team since 2019.
· Buffalo and Jacksonville have a 10-10 record against one another all-time, but the Bills are 0-2 versus the Jaguars in the postseason – 1996 in Jim Kelly and Kent Hull’s final game and 2017, the team’s first playoff game since 1999.
· Allen has averaged the most total yards per game among any quarterback in playoff history (311, minimum 10 starts).
· The Bills are one of just five teams since 1950 to enter the postseason first in the NFL in rushing and first in pass defense. The last three teams to accomplish this feat – the 2009 New York Jets, 2014 Seattle Seahawks and 2017 Jaguars – all reached their respective conference title games.
· This will be the 10th playoff matchup ever between the top-rated rushing team and top-rated run defense (and the first since Baltimore and Tennessee in 2003).
· According to Kevin Massare, since 2020 Buffalo has gone 7-1 versus the AFC playoff field but 0-4 against the Kansas City Chiefs, who were eliminated from postseason contention this year. They’re also the winningest pro sports franchise in the regular season in that same span (.730).
· Last week the Bills outgained the Jets by 348 yards, the third-biggest gap in team annals.
· With two rushing touchdowns Allen will surpass Steve Young for second all-time in rushing scores by a quarterback in the postseason.
· Buffalo could become one of four teams ever to win a playoff game six years in a row (New England 2011-18, Kansas City 2018-24 and Dallas 1991-96 are the others).
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