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Allen Takes the 7-1 Bills to the Meadowlands

LIVE — Bills 10, Jets 6 at halftime: Sanders' second field goal, in the final seconds, kept the Jets close.

Miles Rook2 min read Updated Nov 15, 2:35 PM ET

Josh Allen in 2025 (archive); Allen and the Bills visit the Jets on Sunday. Photo: WuTang94, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Summary

The league's best record against its loudest rebuild — Buffalo's trap game is the one it schedules itself.

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LIVE — Bills 10, Jets 6 at halftime at the Meadowlands. Josh Allen's 1-yard touchdown run and a Tyler Bass field goal built Buffalo's lead, and Jason Sanders answered with two field goals for the Jets, the second with 12 seconds left in the half. Allen is just 6 of 13 for 71 yards; James Cook (13 carries, 56 yards) has carried Buffalo's offense, and Geno Smith is 9 of 16 for 113 yards.

The Buffalo Bills (7-1) visit the New York Jets (2-7) at MetLife Stadium at 1 p.m. ET on CBS, in the early window's widest talent gap. Buffalo has the AFC's best record. The Jets have the AFC's loudest everything else.

Buffalo's numbers travel. The Bills are unbeaten on the road and score a league-best 32 points a game, and Josh Allen's offense just hung a win on Minnesota in its last outing. Tight end Dalton Kincaid has become the middle-of-the-field answer when defenses sell out against the run, and there is no obvious week on the schedule where this offense can't get to 30.

The Jets' season ended as a competitive matter weeks ago; what remains is evaluation and a stockpile of first-round picks they've been speeding toward. Last week they lost 35-12 to Kansas City. Their defense still shows up — it's the one unit on the home sideline with a pulse — and division games at home are where pride occasionally beats math.

For Buffalo, the danger is only ever the same one: looking past a beaten team toward the games that decide the AFC's top seed. The Bills have been the conference's most complete team for two months. Sunday asks them to be its most professional one for three hours.

Buffalo is working on a short week — the Bills beat Minnesota on Monday night — and short weeks on the road are how good teams talk themselves into bad Sundays. The Jets' only real path is to make the afternoon ugly early and let the Meadowlands crowd remember it hates losing to Buffalo more than it hates this season.

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