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Josh Allen’s Bills Nearly Perfect in Dismantling the Patriots - The New York Times
Jan 16, 2022 1 min, 25 secs
Bills 47, Patriots 17.

— For Bills fans, there are playoff victories — rare as they might be — and then there are playoff victories over the Patriots, the first of which happened on Saturday when Buffalo trounced New England, 47-17.

No team has given the Bills more grief in the last 20 years than the Patriots, a team that won the A.F.C.

Heading into Saturday’s game, the Patriots had a 77-46-1 franchise record against the Bills, a .626 winning percentage.

The departure of Tom Brady to Tampa Bay and the arrival of Josh Allen in Buffalo have reset the scales a bit: The Bills have won three of their four regular games against the Patriots the past two seasons.

On a freezing Saturday night at home, the Bills were nearly perfect against the Patriots, who have toyed with the team mercilessly for years.

For the game, Allen completed 21 of 25 passes for 308 yards and five scores.

Last season, the Bills swept the Patriots, who were without Brady for the first time in two decades, and established a longer postseason as their target.

championship game evolved the team, under Josh Allen, from happy-to-be-here playoff entrants to title contenders even if that planned path ran through New England.

On Saturday, in the second coldest Bills home game ever — 7 degrees at kick off — Jones forced passes under pressure.

Fittingly, Kelly, a Hall of Fame quarterback, wore a Josh Allen jersey while Thomas wore a Devin Singletary jersey to honor the Bills’ current running back who, like Allen, showed off his versatility on Saturday.

The Bills won two home playoff games last January against the Indianapolis Colts and Baltimore Ravens, but both games were played in front of only a few thousand fans.

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