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‘“Is it a passing touchdown? I wouldn’t get a passing and receiving. I’d assume it’s a pass ‘cause you’re rushing,” Allen thought aloud.’

‘According to NBC, Allen became the first quarterback in NFL history to pass for a touchdown, rush for a touchdown and catch a touchdown in a single game.’

‘”I thought Josh was over there because he wanted the ball, so I gave it to him,” Cooper explained.’

‘“That was lit!” Mahomes wrote on X.’

‘As the snow continued to fall on Buffalo’s Highmark Stadium, quarterback Josh Allen hit wide receiver Amari Cooper in the red zone on a quick slant. After being stifled by several San Francisco 49ers defenders, Cooper decided to give his quarterback a chance to shine, and lateraled it to him.’

‘Amid the wintry conditions in Orchard Park for the Bills-49ers snow game on Sunday Night Football, cameras caught a snowball being launched into the path of the kick as the 49ers attempted a 33-yard field goal. 49ers kicker Jake Moody sent the ball sailing through the uprights to give San Francisco the early 3-–0 lead, but that snowball sure came close.’

‘After the game, Bills quarterback Josh Allen and coach Sean McDermott soaked in the winter weather while celebrating the team’s dominant 35–10 victory. During their postgame interview, Allen and McDermott embraced the wintry climate and laid down on the ground to make some snow angels.’

‘“This is going to be concerning for people trying to travel to the football game. We do not expect the game to be postponed or anything like that. The game will go on,” Erie County executive Mark Poloncarz said at a news conference via the Associated Press. “Now, we’ve had games that are colder than that. Just got to dress appropriately. So people need to be prepared. It’s the first real cold of the season. We haven’t had anything like this all year.”’

‘The Buffalo Bills quarterback announced Friday that he proposed to his longtime girlfriend Hailee Steinfeld during the bye week. He captioned the photo, “11.22.24,” indicating the celebrity couple got engaged last weekend on Nov. 22.’

‘A whopping 31.2 million people watched Buffalo’s’ exciting 30–21 win over Kansas City. It topped the Ravens-Chiefs season opener on NBC, which was watched by 28 million people, as the most-watched game of the season.’

‘As you can see, when Allen hit the top of his drop, a few things were true. Star defensive tackle Chris Jones (No. 95) got immediate pressure, the Bills had no receivers open … and there was an opening rush lane on the right side as the Chiefs didn’t use a spy for Allen.’

‘The huge number was first reported by Sports Business Journal’s Austin Karp. The game is now the “fourth-best national window on record for the NFL,” and sits among the 10 best non-Thanksgiving games on record, Karp added.’

‘”Right now he’s the best quarterback,” Woody said after acknowledging that there are other good quarterbacks. “He can play whatever way you want to play. If you need him to air it out and throw it all over the yard, Josh Allen can do that. If you want him rumbling and tumbling all over the field, guess what? He can do that.”‘

‘“The standard that we’ve set as a team, as a culture, whoever’s playing is expected to play at that level and that standard,” fresh-faced, third-year linebacker Terrel Bernard told me from the victorious locker room Sunday night. “That’s been our motto. We lost a lot of great players, lot of veterans and captains on this team last year. New guys got to step up and play to that level and rise to the occasion. That’s what we’ve been doing.”’

‘The call on Josh Allen’s game-winning 26-yard touchdown run was brilliant because, to me, it picked up on the one thing that opponents of the Kansas City Chiefs have failed to realize time and time again. They have one of the smartest defenses on the planet and are one of the best tackle-in-space teams in the NFL. All of the legal traffic created by these conflicting routes peeled off valuable Chiefs defenders one after another and drew them into assignments that took their eyes off the quarterback. It prevented any of them from reading the play, reacting and making a move on the ball. Allen took the fourth-and-2 play to the house, giving the Buffalo Bills a 30–21 lead. That was the final score.’