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The Buffalo Bills made some NFL historical past on Thursday with their 24-10 win over the New England Patriots. With the victory, the Bills achieved TWO feats that had by no means been pulled off earlier than.
First, the win over the Patriots gave the Bills three Thursday victories this season, which is probably the most in NFL historical past. Here’s fast take a look at how the Bills have fared on Thursday nights this season:
Week 1: Bills 31-10 over Rams. The Bills had been puffed up because the Super Bowl favourite throughout the offseason and so they confirmed why on this sport. Josh Allen threw for 297 yards and three touchdowns because the Bills rolled to a win over the Rams. Week 12: Bills 28-25 over Lions. This was the one considered one of their Thursday wins that was truly shut. With the sport tied at 25 and simply 23 seconds left to play, Allen drove the Bills into area vary and Tyler Bass ended up hitting the game-winner from 45 yards out. Week 13: Bills 24-10 over Patriots. The Bills completely dominated this sport from begin to end. The Patriots could not transfer the ball on the Bills protection and Buffalo’s offense did simply sufficient to ensure that this sport did not go all the way down to the wire.
Since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, there have solely been 4 groups which have performed three Thursday video games in a season. The different groups that had an opportunity to win three Thursday video games had been the 2000 Lions, 2019 Bears and 2021 Cowboys.
Of these three groups, the Lions truly got here the closest to going 3-0. Detroit received its first two Thursday video games earlier than shedding to the Vikings 24-17. As for the Bears, additionally they went 2-1, however they misplaced their Thursday evening opener to the Packers, so that they by no means had a shot of going 3-0. On the Cowboys’ finish, they went 1-2, which included shedding the Thursday evening opener to the Buccaneers, 31-29.
As for the opposite file the Bills broke, they turned the primary group in NFL historical past to beat 4 former Super Bowl-winning head coaches on the street in a single season (by way of OptaStats). Not solely did they beat a six-time Super Bowl winner in Bill Belichick on Thursday, however they’ve additionally crushed the Rams (Sean McVay), the Ravens (John Harbaugh) and the Chiefs (Andy Reid) this season.
Plenty of groups have had an opportunity to set this file, however none have been capable of do it. The Broncos can even have an opportunity to match the file, however it appears unlikely they will be capable of pull it off. Denver has already crushed one Super Bowl-winning coach on the street (Doug Pederson) this season and so they nonetheless have street video games left in opposition to Harbaugh (Week 13), McVay (Week 16) and Reid (Week 17).
The Raiders additionally had an opportunity to beat 4 Super Bowl-winning coaches on the street this 12 months, however they’re simply 1-2 with one sport remaining in opposition to a Super Bowl-winning coach.
