ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Josh Allen threw two landing passes, James Prepare dinner scored on a 5-yard run and completed with 120 yards dashing, and the Buffalo Payments leaned on a balanced offensive assault in a 31-7 win over the Denver Broncos in a wild-card playoff recreation on Sunday.
The Payments methodically wore down the Broncos by scoring on six of their first seven drives in constructing a 31-7 lead in an outing the place they completed with a 23-minute edge in time of possession.
And Buffalo didn’t flinch after rookie Bo Nix capped Denver’s five-play game-opening drive with a 43-yard landing move to Troy Franklin.
With Buffalo main 13-7, Allen broke the sport open with a 24-yard landing move to sliding working again Ty Johnson behind the top zone on fourth-and-1 with 3:06 left within the third quarter.
On Buffalo’s subsequent possession, Allen accomplished a 55-yard move to Curtis Samuel on the primary snap of the fourth quarter.
The five-time defending AFC East champion Payments superior to the divisional spherical for a fifth straight postseason, and can face the third-seeded Baltimore Ravens subsequent weekend.
The Ravens, coming off a 28-14 win over Pittsburgh on Saturday, routed Buffalo 35-10 at Baltimore in Week 4 this season. The outing will mark the second playoff assembly between Allen and Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson after Buffalo defeated the Ravens 17-3 within the 2020 divisional spherical.
Prepare dinner grew to become Buffalo’s first participant to prime 100 yards dashing in a playoff recreation since Corridor of Famer Thurman Thomas had 158 yards dashing in a 1995 wild-card playoff win over Miami.
Allen completed 20 of 26 for 272 yards and elevated his playoff whole to 23 passing touchdowns, breaking the franchise document of 21 held by Corridor of Famer Jim Kelly.
The seventh-seeded Broncos have been outclassed of their first playoff look since their Tremendous Bowl-winning season in 2015.
Nix completed 13 of twenty-two for 144 yards in an outing the place Denver punted 4 occasions and turned the ball over on downs twice.
