Orchard Park, N.Y. — It had been 84 starts since the last time Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen finished a game with less than 100 yards in a game he started and finished.
But that’s exactly what happened on Sunday night in the Buffalo Bills’ 31-10 blowout win over the Dallas Cowboys.
Allen didn’t need to do much on Sunday evening at Highmark Stadium because Buffalo’s run game erupted for 266 yards – the most ever in the Sean McDermott era. Allen finished with 94 yards on 15 passes in a quiet day for the NFL’s no. 4 ranked passing offense.
The last time Allen threw for less than 100 yards in a game he started and finished was in 2018 as a rookie in a 13-12 win over the Tennessee Titans. Allen had 82 passing yards in that game.
How did the Bills quarterback feel about his opportunity to sit back and watch as another player carried the load for the Buffalo offense? He felt like a kid again.
“I felt like the kid that didn’t do anything in the class project but got an A,” Allen joked. “But again, I’ll do this 10 times out of 10 times, man.”
Allen admitted that the plan going into the game wasn’t to rely heavily on the run game. But once the team started having success on the ground, offensive coordinator Joe Brady remained determined to execute in the run game. Bills coach Sean McDermott credited Brady for recognizing that the run game was working and for staying with it.
McDermott said that when teams take away the passing attack, the run game has to produce.
“You need to be able to play that way down the stretch because of weather or they’re taking away your fastball,” McDermott said. “I just believe it philosophically, holistically you’ve got be able to show that you can do that. Be a two dimensional offense or in this case a one dimensional offense via the run. It just helps the whole football team. It keeps their explosive offense on the sideline. Their explosive players.”
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