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BILLS 56

DOLPHINS 26

ORCHARD PARK — Josh Allen and the Bills placed an emphatic stamp on their breakout season with a 56

26 rout of Miami on Sunday in a game in which the Dolphins could have clinched a playoff berth with a win.

The loss put Miami’s postseason hopes in the hands of the Jaguars, who needed to upset the Colts but didn’t come close.

The Dolphins (10-6) didn’t get results they needed to clinch their third playoff berth in 18 years, after Cleveland beat Pittsburgh and Baltimore routed Cincinnati. Allen threw three touchdown passes and Isaiah McKenzie scored three times, once on an 84yard punt return, in a game Buffalo blew open by scoring on four consecutive second-quarter possessions.

With the victory, the Bills (13-3) clinched the AFC’s No. 2 playoff seed and matched a single-season record for wins, set in both 1990 and ’91, and won their first East Division title in 25 years.

Allen finished 18 of 25 for 224 yards passing in playing just the first half before he was replaced by Matt Barkley to start the third quarter. Allen upped his total to 4,544 yards passing to eclipse the team’s single-season record of 4,359, set by Drew Bledsoe in 2002.

Buffalo’s 56 points were the second most in team history, and two shy of the record set in a 5824 victory over Miami on Sept. 18, 1966, when the two were members of the American Football League. The Bills also finished the season with 501 points, topping the franchise record of 445 set in 1991.