I love it when the sideline reporter tells Josh "You're such a kid"!!! ONE, TWO , THREE GO BILLS!!!
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Showing posts with label Josh Allen. Show all posts
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18 December 2025
03 November 2025
THE BILLS ARE BACK ( 6 - 2 ) !!!!! & Bills' Josh Allen gets blunt message from Chiefs coach after win 3NOV25
AFTER 2 humiliating and embarrassing self imposed loses, Patriots 23 Bills 20 in Buffalo on 5 OKT and then Falcons 24 Bills 14 in Atlanta on 13 OKT, the Bills have made an incredible comeback defeating the Panthers in Charlotte, Bills 40 Panthers 9 on 26 OKT and then DEFEATING the Chiefs IN BUFFALO, Bills 28 Chiefs 21 on 2 NOV!!!!! They beat the Chiefs though the Chiefs were favored by the pundits and inspite of the officials ( noting Romo and Vance commented twice during the broadcast they didn't see the penalties called on the Bills, and also noting how much Kansas City ass licking they and their sideline field fotze did during the game..... ). I always love my Bills but I am especially proud of their win over the Chiefs!!! LET'S GO BUFFALO!!!!!!
Bills' Josh Allen gets blunt message from Chiefs coach after win
Buffalo Bills star Josh Allen scored three touchdowns in the team’s 28-21 win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, extending the team’s regular season winning streak over their rival to five games.
Allen watched the Bills’ defense knock down two of Patrick Mahomes' final last-second heaves into the end zone to seal Buffalo’s win. When the clock hit triple zeroes and the final whistle blew, Allen was greeted by Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo on the field.
Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen throws during the first half of an NFL football game against the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, in Orchard Park. New York. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
The longtime Chiefs coach gave a blunt message to Allen. The moment was seen as part of a segment for "Inside the NFL."
"I don’t want you to play anymore," Spagnuolo said with a smile. "I want you to retire. Nice job."
Allen had a touchdown pass to Dalton Kincaid and rushed for two more in the win. He was 23-of-26 for 273 yards.
Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen drops back to pass during the first half of an NFL football game against the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, in Orchard Park. New York. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
"They’re the pinnacle of what you want your franchise to be. They’ve been that for the last eight years," Allen said. "Any time you get a chance to play the best and you can come away with a victory, you’re going to be feeling pretty good."
Buffalo’s defense held Mahomes to one of the worst performances of his career. He failed to throw a touchdown pass for the first time in more than a year.
The Bills have had a bunch of success in the regular season, but have still failed to get past the Chiefs in the playoffs. Buffalo has not defeated Kansas City in the postseason since January 1994.
Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) scores as Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Leo Chenal (54) and defensive back Chamarri Conner, left, defend during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, in Orchard Park. New York. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
It’s likely the two teams will meet again soon with the stakes even higher than Sunday night.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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08 September 2025
BUFFALO BILLS 41 BALTIMORE RAVENS 40 BILLS WIN THE LAST SEASON OPENER TO BE PLAYED IN HIGHMARK (RICH) STADIUM 7SEP25
OH MY GOSH, what a game!!! In the 4th quarter the Bills were down 15 points with about 6 minutes left in the game and they, the team, pulled off this comeback that had had them win in the LAST SECOND with a field goal kicked by Matt Prater, a 41 year old guy that just got into Buffalo last Thursday who wasn't with ANY team and was practicing kicking at a high school football field in Arizona. He was an unknown in Buffalo, unknown to almost everyone in the Bills organization, but EVERYONE knows who Matt Prater is now!!! I can honestly say while I was watching the game I never gave up on them, I have been a Bills fan all my life and know they can pull off amazing comebacks and they didn't let me down. This is why I love my Buffalo Bills, oh yes they do make me want to scream and shout!!! THANK YOU BILLS, THANK YOU!!!
16 November 2024
Josh Allen and the art of being The Man 16NOV24
THE beautiful thing about Josh Allen is he will turn this around and give credit to the team for their winning record, and that is why, after all the offseason roster adjustments, the Buffalo Bills, offence and defense, play and win as a team! I can not help myself, I love my Buffalo Bills!!! From the Washington Post.....
Josh Allen and the art of being The Man
Josh Allen, Buffalo’s Atlas, is carrying the Bills more than ever as they get set to face their longtime nemesis yet again.
By Adam Kilgore
When Josh Allen staggered into the room, Beane had little to critique. The Bills asked as much of Allen as any player in the NFL, and he had carried them to within a missed field goal of potential advancement to the AFC championship game. Beane planned to gently remind Allen he needed to limit turnovers and better protect his body. Before Beane could start, Allen launched into a self-appraisal that mirrored the notes in front of Beane.
“Josh will reel it right off to you as if he was reading your mind,” Beane said. “He don’t even want to hear it from you. He’s that kid that walks in — ‘I know, I f---ing did this, this and this. And I got to be better.’”
For years, Allen has been Buffalo’s Atlas — carrying the franchise, if not the entire city — and yet he has taken on even more responsibility in his seventh season. His constant quest for improvement has yielded a quarterback playing at the highest level of an awing career. After an offseason in which the Bills reset their roster, Allen has led them back to the upper reaches of contention and mounted the league’s strongest challenge to Lamar Jackson’s MVP hegemony.
Allen will again lead the Bills on Sunday afternoon against the undefeated Kansas City Chiefs, the boogeyman who eliminated them from last year’s playoffs and has blocked Allen from the NFL’s pinnacle. The Bills have won a playoff game in four consecutive years. Patrick Mahomes’s Chiefs have ended their season in three of them.
It has not dimmed Allen’s resolve, even in a season when many expected the Bills would regress. The Bills purged a raft of veterans in the offseason — most notably with their trade of mercurial wideout Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans — to bolster their future financial outlook. Players not on their roster account for nearly $70 million against the salary cap, second most in the NFL.
But the Bills have Allen, which means they have enough to be 8-2 and cruising to a sixth straight playoff berth. Allen’s statistical résumé does not stand apart from previous seasons, aside from his career-low interception rate. Still, coaches and teammates are unequivocal in their belief he has never played better or been more in command.
“He just finds ways to improve every year,” Bills tight end Dawson Knox said, “when you don’t think that might be possible.”
In ways both obvious and unseen, Allen epitomizes what it means to be an NFL franchise quarterback. He throws military-grade passes and scrambles like a hurricane. He also organizes remote offseason workouts, calls players-only strategy sessions, picks up the tab at celebratory dinners, makes post-practice tee times and hosted the team’s Halloween party. At 28, Allen has mastered the delicate art of being both The Man and one of the guys.
“He’s basically got the weight of this entire city on his shoulders,” Knox said. “I don’t know anyone else that can do it like he does. I can’t imagine the type of pressure and stress he has to deal with. The way he does it is just mind-blowing. He hasn’t changed one bit in terms of just being a good dude. I don’t know how that’s possible with what he has to deal with.”
Taking charge
Allen grew up on his family’s farm in rural central California — “the middle of nowhere,” Allen said. His mother stayed home and raised him. His father worked the cotton, cantaloupe and alfalfa crops. When Allen reached high school, his parents made their home the social hub for Allen’s friends and teammates. They played cards and video games and pickup sports. “Not a whole lot to do out on the farm,” Allen said.
The experience provided Allen a framework for how togetherness off the field creates bonds on it. When Allen entered the NFL, he deferred leadership to older teammates. Even as he became a captain and a superstar, he allowed elder voices — Diggs, center Mitch Morse, safeties Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde — to dictate the tenor of the locker room.
As those veterans departed, Allen became one of the most tenured players on the roster. He felt emboldened to shape the team’s culture.
“I’m careful to say it, because it wasn’t just a Diggs thing,” Beane said. “Their relationship, what it was or what it wasn’t, even if it was perfect, he still would have acquiesced. It took the weight off.”
When the Bills gathered for their first offseason practices, the only wideout Allen had thrown a pass to was third-year slot receiver Khalil Shakir. Allen made it his mission to take “as many mental reps as possible” with new teammates, “whether we’re on the football field or we’re just hanging out, we’re on the golf course, talking.” He applied the ethos of his family farm to the Bills locker room.
“Getting to know somebody deeper,” Allen said. “I do believe that pays dividends on the football field.”
Each week during offseason practices, Allen took a new trio of teammates out for rounds of golf, his offseason obsession. He made intentional choices to bridge different ages and positions — one nine-hole round included Shakir, backup quarterback Shane Buechele and third-year linebacker Terrel Bernard.
Between June’s mandatory OTAs and late-summer training camp, Allen organized a trip with his wideouts, tight ends and running backs. He wanted to bring them to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in the state where he played college football. When he realized logistical hassles would mean better attendance elsewhere, he made arrangements for his teammates to stay in Nashville.
In the mornings, Allen would throw passes and instruct how he wanted routes run. In the afternoons, they might play golf. At night, they would extend dinner long into the night, talking football and sharing personal stories before Allen grabbed the bill.
It can be challenging for a franchise quarterback to connect with teammates, especially younger ones. They face pressure other players cannot fathom. They make more money. Their fame opens doors — Allen played Pine Valley this offseason; ask your best golf sicko friend if you don’t know what that means — but also burdens every public movement. Their stature promotes ego.
“That’s the cool part — I don’t even think about that,” Shakir said. “He doesn’t make guys feel like he’s above everybody else. That’s not him. That would never be him. That’s Josh. He’s such a dope person inside and out.”
Allen’s ability to connect stems from both his natural outlook and his self-awareness. As his fame has grown, Allen realizes that rookies and young players new to the team may regard him at first as the star from highlights and national commercials. “Probably the first time they all see him throw a pass, it’s just like, ‘Wow!’” offensive coordinator Joe Brady said. Allen ensures they view him a teammate they can approach and ask for help, not a distant figure they have to worry about impressing.
“He understands the locker room, understands the people, understands how to communicate with certain guys,” Brady said. “That’s a unique and special trait. When you’re the quarterback, the city, the organization is always on your shoulders. Every decision is magnified. Every throw. Everything. That’s a lot.”
During the season, Allen takes teammates out to eat and invites them and their wives to his home. Allen and his girlfriend, the actress Hailee Steinfeld, hosted the Bills’ team Halloween party. They dressed up as circus ringleaders and greeted every Bills player at the door.
“The attendance matters, too,” Buechele said. “If you have a party and only a couple guys go, that kind of shows. But the whole team was there, and they wanted to be there, and we wanted to be around everybody. It’s a testament to Josh.”
On a recent Monday, longtime Bills left tackle Dion Dawkins and former Bills center Eric Wood, now a Bills radio analyst, hosted charity events on the same night. “He could have told Eric, ‘Hey, man, I already committed to Dion’s thing,’” Beane said. “But instead he goes to both.”
Allen undertakes those commitments with a particular weight. Being a franchise quarterback in a small city may not be more difficult than being one in a bigger market, but it is undoubtedly a different, more intense obligation. Allen’s visage covers 11 stories of the Statler, an iconic downtown building. His No. 17 adorns backs in dive bars, hospitals and offices on Fridays — only seven players moved more jerseys this season, per the NFL Shop. He is the most recognized person in town, the most important player on the most important team, the reason hundreds of thousands people will be happy or sad on Monday morning, one man responsible for civic well-being in a way that’s both ludicrous and inevitable.
“It’s not easy being Josh in any city,” Beane said. “But in Buffalo, he can’t go anywhere.”
On a Saturday in October, two days before the Bills played a Monday night game, Shakir held a pet adoption event at a local brewery.
“My wife called me,” Beane said. “She was like, ‘This place was a zoo. Then Josh got there. I felt so bad for him. They’re trying to have a roped-off area, and people were just swarming him.’ But he handles it so well. I just don’t know many people that would care enough. He knows him showing up is going to do something for Khalil Shakir.”
“He’s a pleaser,” quarterbacks coach Ronald Curry said. “He plays for more than himself.”
‘Whatever he touches, it’s been good’
Every offseason, Allen identifies facets he wants to improve. “There’s always something,” he said. Last January, he chose to focus his spring and summer on the mental side of football. He wanted to comprehensively understand an offense Brady was rebuilding around him. He determined he would throw fewer interceptions.
Bills Coach Sean McDermott said Allen’s “command of our offense” has reached a new level. Brady described the evolution of Allen’s grasp as the difference between knowing the offense and being able to teach it. Allen already knew where every player should be on a given play. Now, he can tell teammates their assignment and explain the multilayered rationale behind it.
“That two-way street of communication has been better than it’s ever been with him,” Knox said.
Allen has thrown only four interceptions this season, one of which bounced off rookie wideout Keon Coleman’s chest. Allen made slight tweaks to his throwing form in the spring, shortening his stride and tightening the path of his arm. But his turnover avoidance hinged mostly on his mentality.
Rather than playing every second-and-long as a life-and-death struggle, Allen has treated them as an opportunity. Allen has recognized, Brady said, that beating defenses playing safeties deep in shell-like alignments requires patience. During practice, Allen sometimes will bypass an open receiver so he can read the entire progression of a play and throw a checkdown.
Even with his increased discernment, Allen has not sacrificed the playmaking that forms the essence of his game. Two weeks ago, against the Dolphins, Allen was hemmed in by pass rushers near the goal line. He darted forward. Two Dolphins converged on him. As they blasted him, Allen flicked a pass at a three-quarters arm angle. It zipped into reserve tight end Quintin Morris’s hands in the end zone.
“It’s insane,” Knox said. “He’s got three guys tackling him, and he throws a touchdown pass. I turn into a fan sometimes on the field with him.”
“He’s in such a groove right now, whatever he touches, it’s been good,” Curry said. “Even his interceptions, those are good decisions. He’s Josh Allen for a reason. He’s going to make those plays every Sunday. That’s just what he does.”
Allen has even managed to lessen, if far from eliminate, his exposure to physical danger. Beane has for years implored Allen to avoid injurious hits, to stop hurdling tacklers and lowering his shoulder into linebackers.
“He’s always holding that ball to the sideline,” Beane said. “When I was getting on to him after three or four games again, he smirked at me and said, ‘You know there’s some stat out there that my completion percentage is higher than anyone’s from within one yard of the boundary.’ And I’m like, ‘Okay, d---head, I get it.’”
Early in the season, Allen took a blow that damaged his left hand and forced him to wear a protective wrap. Since then, Beane said, Allen has improved at “protecting himself and understanding we need him fresh in January, not walking in there taped together.”
“I don’t want to brag too much,” Beane said, grinning. “We still got some games left. I could have to yell at him.”
A new tone in Buffalo
While pushing Allen to reduce risky throws, the Bills have never worried internally about Allen’s interceptions as much as the outside football community has. Many of them, Beane said, were heaved on third and long — effectively punts. Several others occurred when Allen threw to the right spot, but his wideout ran the wrong way.
The latter form of excusable picks reveals another way Allen excels in his role. He has received extensive criticism for his interceptions and countless chances to explain them away, to snap just once and fault a wideout’s mistake. He has not done it.
“We all know guys, even when they don’t directly point fingers, you read between the lines,” Beane said. “Josh never even gives you anything between the lines.
“Josh looks at the man in the mirror first. We could put up 35 points in a game and lose. He’s going to sit there and think of a play that could have made it 38 or 42. If you walk in our locker room after a game, he might have had four touchdowns, he might have 80 yards rushing, and he’s got f---ing blood all over him, whatever, and he’s just distraught that we didn’t win the game.”
Allen struck that precise pose last January, sitting in front of his locker in full uniform, still padded and bloodied, after the Chiefs beat the Bills in the divisional round. The Chiefs had come to Buffalo for Mahomes’s first road playoff game after the ugliest regular season of his tenure. The Bills were on the precipice of a roster overhaul, maxed out and built to topple Mahomes. None of it mattered.
Allen has used the result as fuel, and the Bills have coalesced around him. The Bills’ current era has been defined by regular season brilliance and playoff bitterness, with a backdrop of unease. Diggs could be unpredictable. McDermott could grow tight in close games. With Allen further asserting himself as the franchise leader this season, the tone in Buffalo has shifted.
“A lot of guys that are happy to be where they’re at,” left tackle Dion Dawkins said. “I can’t say that for the previous years. But this is a different team. Everybody is just happy all of the time.”
Dawkins noted that the sun was unseasonably still shining, the Western New York winter gloom still at arm’s length. The Chiefs are coming to Buffalo again. Turbulence may yet strike the Bills. But they have Allen, and so they know they have everything they need.
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