They knocked Jets QB Aaron Rodgers out of the game early Monday night, then watched their own signal-caller, Josh Allen, consistently undermine the offense in a loss that may come back to haunt Buffalo in a really bad way.

Last Week: 4

How do you lose that game? Aaron Rodgers goes down, and all you have to do is play smart, disciplined football. Josh Allen scoffs at discipline, unfortunately, and turned the ball over four times. They have the Raiders on the schedule next week- they better take care of business.

(Last week: 4)

Monday: Lost 22-16 to New York Jets

That’s it. Mark Sanchez is off the hook. Eleven years after the “Butt Fumble,” Sanchez should finally be allowed to live in peace thanks to Josh Allen’s fourth-quarter fumble that looked very similar to Sanchez’s infamous play and capped a horrible night for the Bills’ quarterback. It was Allen’s fourth turnover of the game and helped the Jets take the lead with less than two minutes to go. Before that play, Allen was picked off three times by New York safety Jordan Whitehead.

Go live your life, Mark!

Last week: loss at New York Jets, 22–16 (OT)
Next week: vs. Las Vegas

The narrative is shifting quickly on Josh Allen, from impenetrable franchise quarterback to turnover machine who has stacked a few bad games on top of one another. With Brian Daboll gone for a second straight year, it’s worth taking a game like this against an elite defense and wondering what Allen needs to get back to form. For so long, Allen’s mobility seemed like the equalizer, but when facing a team equipped with enough different body types like the Jets and so much speed, he had to rely on a dropback game that was wildly uneven. A suspicious offseason in Buffalo, where we were certainly not as confident in the Bills as we normally are, bleeds into Week 1.

The Jenga tower that is the Bills could be starting to fall, far earlier than expected.

Buffalo’s 11-play, 75-yard drive in the second quarter on Monday night — capped by a fabulous Josh Allen-to-Stefon Diggs touchdown against a very good Jets defense — felt like a massive statement. The message? “We’re back.” Then the Bills were held out of the end zone for the next 35 minutes of football. After the touchdown, Allen threw two picks (giving him three total on the night) and lost a fumble. Just too many careless passes and poor overall ball security. Allen made big throws late, and his offensive line gave up a number of pressures, but he just seemed to make his job a lot harder than it needed to be. The Bills have a Super Bowl-caliber squad, but it’s predicated on the offense being much better than what we saw in the season-opening loss to the Aaron Rodgers-less Jets at MetLife.

That was a terrible loss against the Jets. Losing that game was inexcusable after Aaron Rodgers went down. Josh Allen has to stop forcing the ball.

Josh Allen cost the Bills that game. He can’t turn it over four times. When the Bills got the ball first in overtime, they didn’t even get a first down. Allen is a fantastic quarterback and the Bills will be fine — especially with the Jets probably taking a step back without Aaron Rodgers — but Monday night was a pretty ugly loss.

Week 1 Ranking: 4

Josh Allen remains one of the league’s most talented quarterbacks, but he has to figure out a way to rein in his worst impulses. He tossed three touchdowns against the Jets on Monday night (all to safety Jordan Whitehead) and gave New York a free field goal by fumbling deep in his own territory in the fourth quarter.

The Bills are absolutely a Super Bowl contender. But there’s only one word that comes to mind for Buffalo’s overtime loss to a Rodgers-less Jets squad: disaster.

Preseason ranking: 5

Best debut performance: DE Leonard Floyd

Week 1 stats: 1.5 sacks, 3 tackles, 2 QB hits, tackle for loss

The Bills were looking for pass-rushers to step up with Von Miller missing at least the first four games still recovering from surgery on his right ACL. Floyd made an impression throughout the opener against the Jets. Floyd consistently went after Jets QB Zach Wilson and played well alongside third-year pass-rusher Greg Rousseau, which is good news for Buffalo defensive line moving forward — even if it was against the not-as-talented Jets offensive line.