Buffalo Rumblings
The Buffalo Bills (12-5) have made the playoffs in the last seven seasons with Josh Allen as their starting quarterback, but unlike the previous five years where the Bills won the AFC East title, this year’s run to the Super Bowl begins on the road with the Bills as the AFC’s No. 6 seed.
Allen and the Bills have a tough task in front of them, drawing Trevor Lawrence and the red-hot Jacksonville Jaguars (13-4), who earned the No. 3 seed by winning the AFC South and bring an NFL-best eight-game winning streak into Sunday’s 1 p.m. EST clash.
Today’s edition of Buffalo Rumblinks leads off by previewing the Wild Card round matchup between the Bills and the Jaguars.
The Jacksonville Jaguars are the hottest team in the league right now, with an eight-game winning streak heading into Wild Card weekend. They have not lost since a 36-29 loss to the Houston Texans in Week 10.
Recently, playing in Jacksonville has been a house of horrors for the Bills, including one of then ugliest games in team history: a 9-6 setback on Nov. 7, 2021, when Josh Allen was picked off twice and sacked four times and Jacksonville’s aggressive defense kept the Bills out of the end zone, and Lawrence and the Jags won despite amassing only 218 yards of total offense.
The Bills have not won in Jacksonville since the 2013 NFL season and have not won a road playoff game since knocking off Dan Marino and the Miami Dolphins in the 1992 AFC Championship game.
We break down how Lawrence and Jacksonville’s passing attack has caught fire during their eight-game winning streak; how trade deadline acquisition Jakobi Meyers has made an immediate impact; how the pressure will be on Allen’s receiving targets to come through in the clutch against the Jags’ zone defense; how James Cook and Buffalo’s offensive line will be challenged by Jacksonville’s league-leading run defense; how Allen and Buffalo’s aerial attack can take advantage of Jacksonville’s secondary; and more!
