ORCHARD PARK – One must think about that Josh Allen will go into his fourth go to to NRG Stadium for the Buffalo Bills’ Thursday night time matchup with the Houston Texans with at the very least a bit trepidation.
By no means thoughts the truth that the Texans have the No. 1 defense within the NFL each in factors and yards per recreation allowed, a gaggle that has star gamers in any respect three ranges led by edge rushers Will Anderson and Danielle Hunter and cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. who determine to make issues fairly robust for the Payments’ offense.
The reigning league MVP is coming off an epic six-touchdown performance which can doubtless lead to his seventeenth AFC offensive participant of the week award, greater than any participant since he entered the NFL in 2018. Nonetheless, whereas he has loved otherworldly success all through his 7 ½ NFL seasons, none of that has taken place in Houston at a stadium that has been a home of horrors for Allen.
The primary recreation he performed there as a rookie in 2018, the Bills lost 20-13 and he suffered an elbow harm that knocked him out of the subsequent 4 video games, the one video games he has ever missed within the NFL.
In 2019 he led the Payments into an AFC wild-card recreation there, however after opening a 16-0 lead the Bills collapsed and lost 22-19 in extra time. After which in 2024, Allen performed one of many worst video games of his profession finishing simply 9 of 30 passes (career-low 30% completion fee) for 131 yards in a 23-20 loss.
Clearly, Allen shall be preventing some ghosts in a recreation that’s massively necessary for each groups, however at the very least he’ll be going into the sport feeling a bit higher about the way in which the Buffalo offense carried out within the 44-32 victory over Tampa Bay. Now the trick shall be proceed that roll regardless of the enormity of the problem Houston’s protection presents.
“Sure, in case you use it the proper manner,” he stated Sunday after throwing for 317 yards and dashing for 40 extra whereas directing seven scoring drives. “We’ve bought a recreation Thursday night time so it is a fully totally different crew that we’re going through, fully totally different protection. Undecided what the sport plan goes to appear to be, however we’ve bought to start out quick, actually wipe this one and begin (Monday) on attending to Houston.”
Right here’s the printed and betting data:
The Buffalo Payments and Houston Texans will play at 8:15 p.m. ET, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025 at NRG Stadium.
That is an unique Amazon Prime game, except the native Buffalo market (which doesn’t embody Rochester). In Buffalo, the sport shall be obtainable over the air on the ABC affiliate, WKBW, channel 7. You too can watch on NFL.com and the NFL cellular app, and in case you have a subscription to NFL+, the league’s personal streaming service, however in that case you may’t solid the video games to your TV so you could watch in your cellphone or pill.
Data as of Monday, topic to vary:
You’ll be able to pay attention on SiriusXM satellite tv for pc radio on channel 226 (Payments feed) and channel 225 (Texans feed), and on conventional radio, the Payments Radio Community has stations all throughout the state. Chris Brown has the play-by-play, Eric Wooden is the analyst, and Sal Capaccio is the sideline reporter. The community contains:
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Sal Maiorana has coated the Buffalo Payments for 4 a long time together with 35 years because the full-time beat author for the D&C, he has written quite a few books in regards to the historical past of the crew, and he’s additionally co-host of the BLEAV in Payments podcast/YouTube present. He could be reached at maiorana@gannett.com, and you’ll comply with him on X @salmaiorana and on Bluesky @salmaiorana.bsky.social.
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