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Bills QB Josh Allen plays ‘nearly perfect game’ in Jaguars destruction
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Bills QB Josh Allen plays ‘nearly perfect game’ in Jaguars destruction

The Buffalo fans’ chants about Josh Allen in the first half of Monday night’s 47-10 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars may have come a little early, but they couldn’t be further from the truth.

Allen dominated, leading five straight scoring drives to open a comical 34-3 halftime lead. Allen completed 23 of 30 passes for 263 yards, four touchdowns and zero interceptions. It was Allen’s eighth career game with 4-plus passing TDs and no INTs. The QB’s 142.1 passer rating was the third-highest of his career. He also led the Bills with 44 rushing yards.

Teammates agreed with the ‘MVP’ slogans.

“I personally think he’s the best quarterback in the league,” corner Cam Lewis said, via the Buffalo News.

Added guard David Edwards: “He’s just special. What he does throwing the ball, it’s really hard to describe how good he is as a player. I think he’s one of the all-time greats.”

“Almost a perfect game,” tight end Dawson Knox said, according to ESPN.

The Bills entered the season needing Allen to carry the load after an offseason of change, and he’s been better than even Buffalo’s top brass could have expected.

Through three games, he is the only player in the NFL with nine total touchdowns and zero interceptions, marking the first time in his career that he has no INTs in the first three games.

The Bills’ 37-point victory was their second-largest in the last 30 seasons (40-0 over Houston in Week 4, 2021) and the club’s second-largest prime-time victory of all time (38-0 in Week 3, 1992 over Indianapolis). The performance marked Buffalo’s most first-half points since Week 12, 1992, against Atlanta.

“It feels good, I can tell you that. This could have easily been a game where we had 10 days off and slowed down, but we didn’t feel that from our guys, there was a lot of urgency all week, we trained really hard and had a really good game plan,” Allen said on the team’s official website.

Allen fumbled on the opening drive of the 2024 season. Since then, the quarterback has been sublime, avoiding the turnovers that plagued him in previous seasons, playing within Joe Brady’s offense, making sound decisions at the line, distributing the pigskin like a souped-up point guard and using his legs to extend drives when needed.

According to NFL Research, the Bills are 18-0 and are averaging 35.8 points per game, while Allen hasn’t thrown a single pass since 2020.

Monday night underscored the pick-your-poison offense the Bills have employed this season. Allen connected on 10 different targets before leaving the game early in the fourth quarter of the blowout. Six different players scored touchdowns.

Keon Coleman, who was benched for being late in the first quarter, noted that the lack of a key target makes the Bills’ offense more dangerous for the defense.

“The motto – we all eat. So, everybody’s going to eat, everybody’s going to step out and do what they have to do when the ball comes into their hands. So just showing the versatility of our team and showing that we have playmakers,” he said.

As one of three undefeated teams in the AFC (Chiefs, Steelers), things get a lot tougher for Allen and the Bills. Four of the next five games are away: at Baltimore (1-2), at Houston (2-1), at New York Jets (2-1), vs. Tennessee (0-3), at Seattle (3-0).