ORCHARD PARK – One must think about that Josh Allen will go into his fourth go to to NRG Stadium for the Buffalo Bills’ Thursday evening matchup with the Houston Texans with no less than slightly trepidation.
By no means thoughts the truth that the Texans have the No. 1 defense within the NFL each in factors and yards per sport allowed, a bunch 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 powerful for the Payments’ offense.
The reigning league MVP is coming off an epic six-touchdown performance which is able to possible end in his seventeenth AFC offensive participant of the week award, greater than any participant since he entered the NFL in 2018. Nevertheless, 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 sport 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 following 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 sport there, however after opening a 16-0 lead the Bills collapsed and lost 22-19 in additional 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 will likely be preventing some ghosts in a sport that’s massively vital for each groups, however no less than he’ll be going into the sport feeling slightly higher about the best way the Buffalo offense carried out within the 44-32 victory over Tampa Bay. Now the trick will likely be proceed that roll regardless of the enormity of the problem Houston’s protection presents.
“Sure, in the event you use it the correct manner,” he mentioned Sunday after throwing for 317 yards and speeding for 40 extra whereas directing seven scoring drives. “We’ve received a sport Thursday evening so it is a utterly completely different workforce that we’re going through, utterly completely different protection. Unsure what the sport plan goes to appear like, however we’ve received 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, excluding the native Buffalo market (which doesn’t embrace Rochester). In Buffalo, the sport will likely be out there over the air on the ABC affiliate, WKBW, channel 7. You may as well watch on NFL.com and the NFL cellular app, and when you’ve got a subscription to NFL+, the league’s personal streaming service, however in that case you may’t forged the video games to your TV so you could watch in your telephone or pill.
Info as of Monday, topic to alter:
You possibly can hear 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 concerning the historical past of the workforce, 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 observe him on X @salmaiorana and on Bluesky @salmaiorana.bsky.social.
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