Josh Allen on Bills run game: ‘If we can run it like that we’re gonna continue to’
Buffalo bested Cleveland in Detroit on Sunday 31-23, after the game was moved due to weather.
While the snow on the ground in Orchard Park displaced the contest, it was the ground attack in the dome at Ford Field that helped the Bills get the win in front of a number of fans who had traveled to watch the game.
Bills running backs Devin Singletary and James Cook both contributed 86-yards apiece en route to 172 total yards rushing.
The ground support took the pressure off of quarterback Josh Allen, who is playing while recovering from an elbow sprain.
“If we can run it like that we’re gonna continue to run it. That’s no secret,” Allen said to the media after the game. “Very impressed by the way we ran the football.”
Singletary averaged 4.8 yards per run on 18 carries as well as a TD, the RBs third rushing touchdown in his last two games.
Cook had a career day, logging 86 yards on only 11 carries which included a 29-yard run while averaging 7.8 yards per rush.
“We’ve just got to keep building each and every week,” Cook said per Jay Skurski of The Buffalo News. “The more balance we have, the better we can be – the more dangerous we can be. We showed that we can do it, now we’ve just got to keep doing it.”
The winning effort by the Bills offense on the ground marked the first time two of the teams’ running backs netted 85-plus yards rushing in the same contest since Dec. 24, 2016, versus Miami when LeSean McCoy (128 yards) and Mike Gillislee (91 yards) piled it on against the Dolphins.
Allen, who is currently the Bills’ leading rusher this season with 71 carries for 483 yards and four TDs, talked about the impact the ground support had in Buffalo’s offensive performance.
“It’s huge,” Allen added. “Understanding the game plan and what we were trying to do, they found holes, and our offensive line blocked their tails off. So again, that’s going to help us out going forward, and we can continue to utilize our run game and it’ll be successful for us.”
