As recently as a year ago, there were plenty of people who felt Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen was the best in the business, better than even Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs.
When Mahomes led the Chiefs to their second Super Bowl championship in four years after winning his second regular season MVP, he seemed to settle that debate. But after the virtuoso performance Allen had against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, one has to wonder if there is some serious merit to that debate.
Going up against a team that was undefeated coming into Week 4, Allen was on top of his game, completing 21 of 25 pass attempts and throwing four touchdown passes. After he had subpar performances in Week 1 and Week 3, it seems like he and his team are back to being at or near the top of the football world.
On ESPN’s “Get Up,” former quarterback Dan Orlovsky said that when Allen is on top of his game, there’s no one better, not even Mahomes.
Perhaps Allen isn’t as good as Mahomes in the clutch, at least not yet, and he certainly cannot make the type of unorthodox flick passes Mahomes makes with regularity in third and fourth-down situations. But Allen is one of the best dual-threat signal-callers in the game, and moving the chains with one’s legs is a talent Mahomes doesn’t really have.
He ran for only 17 yards in Buffalo’s 48-20 win over Miami, but he did score a rushing touchdown, and in his team’s Week 3 blowout win over the Washington Commanders, he tallied 46 rushing yards and a touchdown on just three rushing attempts.
Ever since Josh Allen emerged as an elite QB, the Bills have known nothing but playoff failure. One of their recent playoff defeats came in heartbreaking fashion to Kansas City in the 2021 divisional round, and they would love nothing more than another shot at the defending world champs this January.
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