Is This Josh Allen's (and the Bills') Breakout Season?
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The Buffalo Bills are sitting pretty atop the AFC East, and that's in large part thanks to the strong play of quarterback Josh Allen. But Allen faces a difficult test, and the ultimate measuring stick, when he and his teammates square off against Pat Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday night. The Athletic’s Matthew Fairburn joins us to discuss Allen's impressive start to the 2020 season, what he'll be watching for in the game against the Chiefs, and whether or not this is the breakout season that Allen and Bills fans have been waiting for.
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| 0:31.0 | The Buffalo Bills are sitting pretty atop the AFC East, and much of that is thanks to |
| 0:37.2 | the strong play of quarterback Josh Allen. |
| 0:39.4 | Today, the Athletics Matt Fairburn on how the polarizing Bills quarterback has performed |
| 0:54.3 | so far in 2020, and whether or not this is the breakout season that he and Bills fans |
| 1:00.4 | have been waiting for. |
| 1:01.6 | I mean, that was legitimately the best month of quarterback play I've seen from a Buffalo |
| 1:07.1 | Bills quarterback since I started covering the team in 2014. |
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