Throwback win for Bills
Allen, defense show top form as team matches 1993 start
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.— Josh Allen regained his early-season groove by throwing three touchdown passes and scoring one rushing, and the Bills beat the Seahawks 44-34 on Sunday.
The Bills defense played a major role in rattling the Seahawks’ Russell Wilson, who was sacked five times, threw two interceptions and lost two fumbles.
The Bills (7-2) matched their best record through nine games since 1993, a season that ended with the Jim Kelly-led team making their fourth consecutive, and final, Super Bowl appearance.
Allen finished 31 of 38 and equaled a career best set earlier this season with 415 yards passing, becoming the first Bills player to top 300 yards four times in one season since Drew Bledsoe did it seven times in 2002.
The Bills offense came alive after Allen combined for just 846 yards passing and five touchdowns— including one rushing— in splitting the previous four games.
The Seahawks (6-2) blew an opportunity to match to match their best record through eight games.
Theywere 7-1 in 2013.
The Seahawks became the NFL’s sixth team to score 25 or more points in each of their first eight games, but was undone by turnovers and a defense that surrendered 420 yards.
The 44 points allowed were the most in coach Pete Carroll’s 11 seasons with the Seahawks and the most for the franchise since a 48-10 road loss to the Packers on Dec. 27, 2009. It was just the eighth time since Week 9 of the 2011 season the Carroll-led Seahawks have lost by 10 points or more.
Wilson has turned the ball over seven times in his last three games, after throwing a seasonworst three interceptions in a 37-34 overtime loss to the Cardinals twoweeks ago.
He finished 28 of 41 for 390 yards with two touchdowns.