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WATCH: Week 15 mini movie of Bills win over Lions

WATCH: Week 15 mini movie of Bills win over Lions

The Buffalo Bills held off a dangerous Detroit Lions team in Week 15 to win, 48-42, in what many considered a “Super Bowl preview”.

Quarterback Josh Allen and the offense continued their red-hot streak by scoring 48 points, their second straight 40-point game and eighth straight 30-point game. Meanwhile, the defense made a few game-altering plays to hold off a Lions offense that ranks first in the NFL.

The Bills improved to 11-3 on the year and currently sit in second place in the AFC.

In a game full of highlight-reel plays, relive the high-scoring showdown with a mini-movie from the Bills’ official YouTube channel:

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Bills’ Sean McDermott ‘feels good’ about Lions win despite points allowed

Bills’ Sean McDermott ‘feels good’ about Lions win despite points allowed

The Buffalo Bills tamed the Detroit Lions on Sunday on the road 48-42, ending their 11-game win streak.

The Rust Belt squads clashed at Ford Field, with their hopes set on a trip to New Orleans this postseason to compete for and win the Super Bowl.

Two teams from their respective conferences, both playoff-bound with several games left to play in the regular season, and boasting two of the NFL’s best offenses.

The Bills faced one of their greatest tests of the 2045 NFL season in one of the league’s top squads and highest-scoring offenses led by Detroit QB and Connecticut personal injury law firm pitchman Jared Goff.

And while the Lions showed why they are one of the top clubs in the league by fighting to stay in the game on the scoreboard, the Bills piled on the points and never slowed down while their defense held its own.

And that feat has their head coach feeling good about leaving Detroit with the victory.

“Well, I feel good about it, I do, I feel good,” Sean McDermott said to the media postgame.

He is now the fifth coach in NFL history to win 11 or more games in five consecutive seasons, joining Andy Reid and Bill Belichick, Tom Landry, Tony Dungy,

“You gotta celebrate wins in this league,” he added. “I mean, it’s just hard to win, it’s hard to win here. This team… they haven’t lost anything since the second week of the season. We were coming off the (disappointing) game the week before and getting back late, having the snow day, I mean, good Lord. Extremely grateful.”

The Bills’ offense led by QB Josh Allen continued to put up historical numbers, and their defensive unit was looking to bounce back after struggling to stop the Los Angeles Rams’ offensive attack in a loss the week prior.

They did just that, applying pressure to Lions QB Jared Goff and logging three sacks on the day, with last week’s experience serving as motivation.

“I would just say we came out with an attitude and it showed,” said CB Taron Johnson after the game. “We learned from last week and tried to carry that chip on our shoulder. We need to do that every single week, just making sure we do that when it comes to the next games. Yeah, I feel like we took it personal last week and we showed it today.”

The effort on both sides of the ball did not go unnoticed.

“I thought the entire offense and offensive staff did a lot of good things,” McDermott noted. “Coming out and being able to run the football was important for us, credit to our offensive line. It’s everyone, tight ends, wide receivers blocking, and the running backs. I thought Joe did a good job changing some things up and Bobby as well. So great job by the staffs.”

The Bills will next host the Patriots and Jets at home in Orchard Park back-to-back weekends before heading to New England for their final game of the regular season and second against the Pats.

The team is in pursuit of the No. 1 playoff seed in the AFC and home-field advantage as well as a first-round bye.

Those achievements that have alluded them thus far in Allen and McDermott’s tenure may finally be within reach.

Despite 48 points vs. Lions, Bills’ Josh Allen wants to ‘find more’

Despite 48 points vs. Lions, Bills’ Josh Allen wants to ‘find more’

The Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions squared off Sunday in a meeting of two NFL heavyweights who are hoping to contend for the ultimate prize.

They would win this heavyweight bout with a final scorecard of 48-42.

Josh Allen and the Bills came out dominant, attacking on the ground with Allen adding two rushing touchdowns in the first quarter as he continued to solidify his case for the league MVP award.

Just like in their Week 14 matchup with the Rams, the Bills’ offense kept scoring, carving up the Lions’ defense as well.

Allen would go 23 for 34 with 362 yards two passing touchdowns to go with 68 yards and two touchdowns on 11 carries rushing. He became the first player in NFL history with 35 or more passing and rushing TDs in four consecutive seasons.

He also threw what appears to be the fastest 50+ pass of the Next Gen Stats era.

“Still, offensively, I think, we need to find some more,” Allen said of the offensive performance after the game. “There’s too many plays we left out there. I know to nitpick a game like that in which we scored 48 sounds kind of dumb, but still feel like we left some out there.”

The Bills attacked the Lions’ poor short-field coverage on the ground and in the air, as Detroit ranked 30th in receiving yards allowed to slot receivers going into the game.

On a day in which the offense was spread out and distributed across the Bills’ offensive weapons’, slot WR Khalil Shakir had a receiving TD with 39 yards, RB James Cook added two rushing TDs and 133 total yards, rookie RB Ray Davis had 29 total yards and a receiving touchdown, and a former sixth-round pick (2019) by the Lions turned Bills RB, Ty Johnson, had a career day with 123 total yards including 114 receiving yards.

The Bills scored 30+ points for an eighth consecutive game to tie a league record, while also becoming only the fifth team to accomplish the streak and first since the 2013 Broncos.

They also scored 40+ points in consecutive games for only the third time in team history (1990 & 2021.)

Allen appears to be solidifying his MVP candidacy in the process.

“It’s the best I’ve seen him play and not surprised,” head coach Sean McDermott said. “When he sets a goal for himself, for a team, I mean, he’s hard to stop.”

Still, the QB sees ways he can be better.

“I think we’ve got guys who are bought in,” Allen added. “And the run game, it sets up the pass game and vice versa. I felt like I missed a couple of throws tonight and we’ll always try to find a way to get better.”

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Bills vs. Lions: Teammates react to another Josh Allen showcase

Bills vs. Lions: Teammates react to another Josh Allen showcase

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen impresses a lot of people, including the ones that know him best.

Allen played a huge role with four touchdown passes against the Detroit Lions (12-2) in a 48-42 win for the Bills (11-3) in Week 15.

Allen had another multi-touchdown effort with four this time. The MVP conversation continues to grow, including in his own locker room.

Allen’s teammates reacted to another big game from the QB in Detroit. Plenty of praise was found.

“Josh is the best player in the league,” cornerback Taron Johnson said.

‘”It’s hard to describe,” tight end Dawson Knox added. “Sometimes you just turn into a fan.”

A roundup of reaction from the Bills locker room on Allen can be found in the WKBW-TV clip below:

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National reactions: More MVP praise for Bills’ Josh Allen vs. Lions

National reactions: More MVP praise for Bills’ Josh Allen vs. Lions

Another game, another slew of MVP praise for Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen.

Allen had a huge outing in a 48-42 win over the Detroit Lions. The QB was 23-for-34 passing with 362 yards and four total touchdowns.

Allen has been the 2024 NFL MVP favorite for weeks, and he keeps making the gap further and further.

The Bills (11-3) will have to clean up some things around him, specifically on defense, but snapping the an 11-game winning streak for the Lions (12-2) was awfully impressive… thanks to Allen.

Those chants for Allen to win the MVP have echoed in western New York and across the NFL world.

With that, here is a national media reaction roundup following the Bills’ win over the Lions:

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Bills’ Josh Allen gets X-ray following win vs. Lions

Bills’ Josh Allen gets X-ray following win vs. Lions

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen had a medical update following another huge performance, this time against the Detroit Lions.

Allen led his team to a 48-42 win over the Lions (12-2) in Week 15. The QB had another four touchdowns and MVP chants kept on coming.

After the outing, Allen ended up going and getting a X-ray in a sign no one wants to see to Buffalo… but at least the man himself says it’s no big deal for now.

Allen played through whatever the issue might be, so that’s a good start. He went on to explain that he felt a little “funky” after a hit… and Allen’s health status will now be watched throughout the upcoming week before the Bills (11-3) face the New England Patriots in Week 16.

Here’s where the hit that Allen took potentially was:

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Jared Goff put up one of the rarest stat lines in NFL history and still couldn’t overcome Josh Allen

Jared Goff was historically perfect but Josh Allen ascended to a different plane of existence.

I want you to visualize something as you read this.

Pretend you don’t know the results of Sunday’s matchup between the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions. Pretend you didn’t see Dan Campbell try an onside kick with 12 minutes left in the fourth quarter in a 10-point game.

If I told you that Jared Goff threw for 494 yards (8.3 yards per attempt), five touchdowns, and had zero interceptions, you’d think his Lions won in a rout, right? That is essentially a perfect game from a starting quarterback. It is tantamount to playing flawlessly.

I see no fault in it. That’s an obvious Lions blowout win on paper.

Well, dearest readers, the Lions wasted this Goff effort and lost. Why?

Because for as perfect as Goff was, NFL MVP favorite Josh Allen (430 yards from scrimmage, two passing touchdowns, two rushing touchdowns) might as well have been levitating for the Bills. That’s right, Allen was even better than Goff in a performance where he had five touchdown passes and nearly 500 passing yards.

I mean … Allen’s leading receiver was Ty Johnson! No disrespect to Johnson, but the Bills shouldn’t be beating the NFL’s best team on the road when he’s the leading receiver! Also, Allen’s defense couldn’t get a single stop and was basically in prevent mode for most of the afternoon.

None of that mattered.

No one would deny the guy wearing the No. 17 Buffalo jersey on Sunday. Allen was out there making casual basketball-style passes to his playmakers in the fourth quarter, folks.

He is not of this world:

Goff was great and literally made NFL history in the process, but Allen was on a different plane of existence. That was the difference in a decisive Buffalo victory:

The Lions are banged up on defense and really need to get healthy. There’s no need to panic about losing to Allen’s Bills. Detroit will be right there in January, regardless. This is just one of those days where you tip your cap to Allen, who, at all costs, was not going to lose.

Josh Allen, Bills outlast Jared Goff, Lions in high-scoring game

Bills topple Lions in game that saw 90 points scored

The Buffalo Bills went into Detroit and kept up where they left off in Los Angeles a week prior. The only difference was the result.

Buffalo lost in a game that saw 86 points scored in Week 14 against the Rams. On Sunday at Ford Field, 90 points were scored and the Bills came away with an impressive 48-42 victory.

The margin was six points but the Bills were in good shape throughout.

They led 38-21 after a Tyler Bass field goal early in the fourth quarter and were never up by less than the final margin.

Josh Allen was brilliant once again. He threw for 362 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for two more. In the last two games, he has accounted for 10 touchdowns.

For the Lions, Jared Goff had to throw and kept throwing to try and lead Detroit back. He wound up 38-of-59 for 494 yards with five touchdowns.

Between the quarterbacks, there were 856 passing yards, seven touchdown passes and no interceptions.

The Bills also became the second team in NFL history to do something when it came to scoring and allowing points in back-to-back games.

In 1966, the Giants scored 40 and gave up 40 in back-to-back weeks. That was the only other team in league history that happened until Sunday.

The Giants lost both of those games, 72-41 to Washington and 49-40 to Cleveland en route to a 1-12-1 season. The Bills are having a wee bit more success.

Dan Campbell was so spooked by Josh Allen that he had the Lions try the most absurd onside kick

Dan Campbell broke his own rules and was punished for it.

Dan Campbell is known for making incredibly aggressive fourth-down calls. They have endeared him to Detroit Lions players and fans alike, specifically because of how much trust he shows in his juggernaut Super Bowl-caliber team. People love that kind of moxie.

However, after an extremely early onside kick call against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Campbell might want to reconsider how he approaches these special teams’ sequences moving forward.

With the Lions getting ripped apart by likely NFL MVP Josh Allen, Campbell showed too much fear about trying to stop the superstar quarterback. In a futile fourth-quarter comeback attempt, Campbell followed a Lions touchdown by having them try an onside kick … with 12 minutes left in the fourth quarter. Mind you, it was only a 10-point deficit at the time.

None of that is a typo. You read that right, dearest readers.

In effect, Campbell broke his own rule about trusting his team because he didn’t show much faith in the Lions stopping Allen and a scorching-hot Bills offense with almost an entire quarter to play. Campbell was appropriately rewarded for his overzealousness (and fear) with an easy return by Mack Hollins, who set up yet another Bills touchdown in a 48-42 Buffalo win.

Even Jim Nantz seemed perplexed by the call:

Given that onside kicks must always be announced and have an extremely low percentage of being recovered by the kicking team, Campbell had too much dip on the chip here. Yes, the Lions defense couldn’t do anything to Josh Allen. But an onside kick with 12 minutes left is basically giving a short field to an unstoppable Bills offense. It is tantamount to punting the game away if you don’t recover the ball. This was not a fourth-and-short play with the NFL’s premier offensive line.

It was literally calling for a lucky bounce of the ball.

Campbell had to know all of this, and he did it anyway. It’s pretty jarring to see him actually NOT trust this Lions team. Suffice it to say, that’s not the Campbell we’re used to seeing.

Mack Hollins of Bills returns Lions’ onside kick attempt to Detroit five

Bills take advantage of Lions’ onside kick attempt

Dan Campbell loves to gamble. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. On Sunday the Lions coach got a case of the Honolulu blues.

Detroit was left black and blue by the Buffalo Bills and it got worse when Campbell had his team attempt an onside kick in the fourth quarter.

Mack Hollins grabbed the high bounce and took off for the end zone. He was tackled at the five and on the next play Ray Davis caught a TD pass from Josh ALlen.

After the PAT, the Bills led 45-28 at Ford Field.