ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Josh Allen’s memorable week started with singer and actress Hailey Steinfeld accepting his proposal for marriage and ended with the Buffalo Bills quarterback celebrating his three-TD outing in an AFC East-clinching 35-10 win over San Francisco by making snow angels alongside coach Sean McDermott on Sunday evening.
“He’s the one which received me to do it,” Allen mentioned of interrupting McDermott’s tv interview to lay backwards right into a snow pile. “I’m not the largest snow angel fan, since you get chilly down there, my toes are freezing proper now … but it surely was enjoyable.”
As for Steinfeld saying “Yes,” throughout his bye week proposal, Allen mentioned: “Felt good. Felt free.”
He may simply as nicely have been referring to his efficiency by braving bone-chilling temperatures and a persistent snowfall in changing into the NFL’s first quarterback and seventh participant within the Super Bowl period to attain a landing passing, speeding and receiving. Sandwiched between his 7-yard landing cross to Mack Hollins and an 8-yard scoring run, Allen scored a receiving landing on a cross he threw in his newest do-everything efficiency.
With Amari Cooper corralling a brief cross with a one-handed catch, the receiver was within the midst of being wrapped up by two Niners defenders when he pitched the ball again to Allen. The QB sprinted to the left nook of the tip zone and dived previous for the pylon for the rating.
“It’s received to be up there. I want he received credited for one thing there, an help or a passing landing,” Allen mentioned of Cooper. “I simply type of chased the ball to be there and we made eye contact. … It was dope.”
Cooper mentioned he acted on intuition in a play that would nicely have been drawn up within the snow on the sideline.
“I used to be questioning what he was doing over there,” Cooper mentioned. “I figured he was over there as a result of he needed the ball, so I gave it to him.”
Snow flew like confetti in celebration from the packed stands because the Bills (10-2) scored on 4 of 5 possessions spanning halftime to construct a 28-3 lead, beginning with Ray Davis’ 5-yard run. James Cook scored on a career-high 65-yard run and completed with 107 yards speeding.
The defending NFC champion 49ers (5-7) unraveled as they dropped their third straight and misplaced working again Christian McCaffrey to what coach Kyle Shanahan mentioned was a possible season-ending harm to the posterior cruciate ligament in his knee.
Shanahan believes McCaffrey was damage on an 18-yard run up the center. The All-Pro working again stayed within the sport and on the following play appeared to step awkwardly together with his left foot on the snow-slicked discipline and went down instantly. After being examined on the sideline, he limped to the locker room and was dominated out at the beginning of the second half.
McCaffrey had 53 yards on seven carries when he exited the sport, his fourth after lacking the primary eight of the season with Achilles tendinitis.
“It feels darkish and gloomy and completely miserable, truthfully I’ll really feel that most likely in a pair hours,” tight finish George Kittle mentioned. “The solely solution to make this really feel higher is to go reap the benefits of subsequent week and attempt to get a win.”
Very little went proper for the 49ers in an outing they misplaced three fumbles and Jake Moody missed two of three field-goal makes an attempt. San Francisco was additionally lacking 5 starters resulting from harm and is now in jeopardy of lacking the playoffs a season after shedding the Super Bowl to Kansas City.
Moody opened the scoring with a 33-yard discipline aim and Isaac Guerendo scored on a 15-yard run. Brock Purdy, coming again after lacking one sport with a sore throwing shoulder, completed 11 of 18 for 94 yards.
Allen completed 13 of 17 passing for 148 yards and two touchdowns, three rushes for 18 yards and a rating, and nil catches for 7 yards and a TD. He was serenaded by followers with chants of “MVP!” and sat out many of the fourth quarter.
“It’s a superb feeling. This one feels slightly bit completely different this early within the season,” Allen mentioned of clinching the division whereas additionally staying within the hunt to catch Kansas City (11-1) for the AFC’s prime seed. “It’s going to be enjoyable, I imply, to go on the market and play free and play relaxed and play free. I believe that could possibly be a harmful staff.”
Allen now has scored 247 profession TDs (186 passing, 59 speeding and two receiving) to interrupt Hall of Famer Jim Kelly’s franchise file of 244.
Buffalo has received seven straight since back-to-back losses to Baltimore and Houston, and is 10-2 or higher for the fifth time in staff historical past and first since 1991. The Bills grew to become the NFL’s eighth staff, and first since Indianapolis in 2009, to clinch a division title with 5 video games remaining.
Buffalo prolonged its run of scoring 30 or extra factors to 6 straight video games, whereas the Niners dropped to 0-5 when scoring 20 or fewer.
Up subsequent
49ers: Host Chicago subsequent Sunday.
Bills: At the Los Angeles Rams subsequent Sunday.
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