Bills QB Josh Allen Lashes Out at ‘Mad’ Buffalo Fans
The Buffalo Bills are one of just a couple of teams left in the NFL this season with a 3-0 record, so there’s really no reason the team’s followers should be mad. But, you can never please everyone, and some in Buffalo still want to see some more action out of this Bills squad.
The Bills have successfully beat their first three opponents of the season, including the Baltimore Ravens, so, yes, there is really no reason to be mad at this franchise. But, MVP-winning quarterback Josh Allen is clapping back at some of the doubters who still criticize how the Bills are getting things done.
In the end, what matters most is that the Buffalo Bills pull off a win. It doesn’t have to be pretty, and people can have their opinions about it, but as long as the Bills are winning, what more can one want?
Josh Allen Talks Buffalo Bills Winning Streak
The Buffalo Bills are 3-0, and they could very well go to 4-0 on Sunday, September 28, against the New Orleans Saints, who are 0-3. There’s literally no way the Saints are feeling confident going into this game.
On offense this season, the Buffalo Bills head up the league in yards with 420 yards per game and are fourth in points. There haven’t been many wild, exciting moments on the field that people want to watch over and over again this season, but Allen knows that’s not what matters. Winning is what matters.
“Taking care of the football, that’s my main job, you know, take care of the football and score points,” he told the press on Wednesday, September 24. He added that “each and every play doesn’t need to be a home run, but as long as we’re taking singles and finding completions and staying in front of the sticks and scoring points, you can’t argue with the results.”
Allen also talked about those who are “mad” about the team not pushing the ball down the field. He doesn’t listen to those critics.
“I just want to win football games,” Allen said. “People are mad we’re not pushing the ball down field…and it’s just like we’re just trying to win football games, whatever that may be, and sometimes it’s not gonna be that easy.”
He continued, “It’s not going to be be, hey, we need to check it. Sometimes we’re going to have to take some chances down the field, and when those opportunities come up, we’re going to have to make them, but until then we’re just going to keep doing what we’re doing.”
Josh Allen Talks New Buffalo Bills Playing Field
Next season, the Buffalo Bills will be playing in the new Highmark Stadium. For Allen, the most important part of this project is the playing surface, which will be natural.
For a few years now, the NFL Players Association has said that teams should switch to natural fields, for the safety of their players. For the 2025-26 season, 17 of 32 teams play their home games on some variety of artificial turf.
“We’re grass, brother,” the star quarterback said when talking about the new stadium’s field surface on The Pat McAfee Show. “We were told about it. We like grass.” Allen said that he has some turf burns on his legs.
Texans’ Offensive Collapse Drags Stroud Down in Latest QB Rankings
After three straight offensive duds for the Houston Texans, the initial shades of doubt have effectively begun to creep in around quarterback C.J. Stroud.
The Texans have been the lowest-scoring offense throughout the NFL within three weeks of action. This offense has also resulted in the worst third-down effectiveness, ranking in the bottom-ten within both passing and rushing yards on the year, and find themselves within the bottom-five in EPA/play.
It's a nightmarish start to the year for the Texans offensively, and as a result, Stroud has begun to face a bit of heavy criticism and even has some disrespect coming his way.
NFL.com's Nick Shook recently broke down a ranking of each starting quarterback in the league through the initial three showings of the year, stacking up every talent from best to worst based on their initial sample size.
And for Stroud, he found himself all the way at number 25, residing in the fourth tier of quarterbacks, with a wild list of names sitting ahead of him.
"Houston is failing C.J. Stroud at a rate that almost seems criminal," Shook wrote. "The Texans can't protect him consistently or establish a reliable running game, their play-calling rhythm is poor and Stroud is expected to bail them out far too often. Predictably, he's falling short of that mark in a situation that is growing uglier with each week."
Of those names residing ahead of Stroud is including, but not limited to, all three other AFC South starters, backups Mac Jones (21) and Marcus Mariota (18), and the one pick ahead of Stroud in the 2023 NFL Draft, Bryce Young (24).
A brutal beginning stretch for Stroud and this offense as a whole, that now finds the Texans in an 0-3 deficit in the standings, while Houston's quarterback will be faced with doubters to prove wrong in the process.
Thankfully, a Week 4 vs. the Texans' division rival Tennessee Titans, provides a chance for Stroud and this offense to get back on its feet, and thus, start the climb back to the top of the AFC South with their first win on the board.
But, if Stroud and his surrounding unit continue to show signs of growing pains, still aren't on the same page, and falter once mire, then the chatter will start to get ugly surrounding this Texans roster.
