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Josh Allen has thrown a touchdown pass 44 seconds before halftime, James Cook rushed 31 times for 107 yards and a late score and Buffalo beat Minnesota 23-6 to send the Vikings deeper into their unrelenting offensive slump.
Linebackers Terrel Bernard and Dorian Williams had interceptions and Tyler Bass made three field goals to stretch his franchise-record streak to 24 straight as the Bills (7-1) matched their best eight-game start since 1993 on Monday night (Tuesday AEDT). That season ended with their last of four straight Super Bowl losses.
“We stuck with it, stuck with it and eventually we broke it,” Cook said.
“We knew what type of game it was going to be, a bloody game.”
With Kyler Murray sidelined by a hamstring injury, Carson Wentz started at quarterback for the Vikings (6-2) and didn’t finish what became one of the worst performances of his 11-year career. He went eight for 25 for just 81 yards and three turnovers.
The battle of Buffalo’s highest-scoring offence in the league against the least-scored-on defence might well have gone to Minnesota had the offence been able to muster a decent drive or two.
But the Vikings had four straight possessions in the first half start beyond their 40-yard line and the furthest they made it was the Bills 48.
Minnesota recorded four sacks and an interception off a heave into the end zone that Byron Murphy ran down and returned 55 yards.
But the Bills eked out just enough in the first half to give themselves a cushion, when Allen found tight end Keleki Latu open in the back of the end zone for a 25-yard touchdown as he rolled right and was hit hard by Andrew Van Ginkel.
With 322 regular-season touchdowns — 232 passing, 88 rushing and two receiving — Allen tied Peyton Manning for the most in NFL history over a player’s first 10 years. Allen is halfway through his ninth season.
“It’s just a mindset of going out there and not being result-driven, going out there and being process-driven and understanding what they’re trying to do,” said Allen, who went 21 for 31 for 234 yards and one interception.
