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Josh Allen, who hadn’t turned the ball over in his previous six playoff appearances, threw two interceptions and lost two fumbles. PJ Locke also picked off Allen.
“Extremely difficult,” a teary-eyed Allen saeid afterward.”I felt like I let my teammates down.”
The Bills failed once again to reach the super Bowl with Allen under center, even though Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, and Lamar Jackson weren’t in contention this time, as that trio of franchise quarterbacks all missed the postseason.
Sean Payton insisted the game should have ended earlier in overtime when a Denver defender was held in the end zone before Allen escaped on second-and-9 from his own 8-yard line.
Coming off the first road playoff win of his career, Allen’s first three turnovers helped Denver build a 23-10 lead before he threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Keon Coleman and a 14-yarder to Dalton Kincaid to give Buffalo a 24-23 lead early in the fourth quarter.
Allen also fumbled the ball at the Denver 23-yard line late in the fourth quarter, but right tackle Spencer Brown recovered the loose ball, setting up Brandon McManus’s 31-yard field goal for a 27-23 Buffalo lead.
Also in the second half, Allen threw an interception when locke cut in front of wide receiver Curtis Samuel, who appeared to be open for what would have been a 43-yard touchdown.
The Broncos scored 10 points in the final 22 seconds of the first half to take a 20-10 lead into the locker room, and they got their third takeaway just two plays into the second half on Jonathon Bonitto’s strip-sack of Allen that was recovered by Malcolm Roach at the Bills 17-yard line, leading to wil Lutz’s short field goal to make it 23-10.
Bo Nix’s 29-yard TD pass to Lil’Jordan Humphrey broke a 10-10 tie and then Bonitto stripped Allen of the ball after a long scramble up the middle. Devon Key recovered for Denver with two seconds left before halftime and Lutz’s 50-yard field goal as the half expired made it
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