Josh Allen’s leap over Anthony Barr still has a life of its own eight years later, and Barr is leaning into the joke.
Bills fans brought the clip back around again on the anniversary of the play, the one that helped launch Allen’s reputation for doing things most quarterbacks would never even try. Barr saw it on his timeline and answered with a quote-tweet and the Arthur shaking fist meme, the classic sign of fake outrage over something that clearly still sticks in the mind.
The hurdle happened in Allen’s rookie season, when Buffalo went into Minnesota as 17-point underdogs and rolled out with a 27-6 win at U.S. Bank Stadium.
Early in the game, Allen faced a 3rd and 10 with Barr in front of him. Instead of sliding or taking the hit, Allen went up and over the linebacker, keeping the drive alive.
Buffalo was already ahead 17-0 at that point, and a few plays after the leap, the Bills scored again to keep pulling away from the Vikings.
Barr has joked about the moment before, and on his “Bent Outta Shape” podcast with former teammate Eric Kendricks, he made it clear the play doesn’t really bother him - mostly because it came from Allen.
“Yeah, he jumped over me, okay. He hurdled me like I was a child,” Barr said on his “Bent Outta Shape” podcast with former teammate Eric Kendricks.
“He flew through the air, Jordan-esque, right, boom. And I didn’t even go low, which is the crazy part.
I was going for a form tackle, and I just tackled air, whiffed, fell straight on my face... I will say, I’m happy that it was Josh Allen that did it.
If it was Joe Shmoe, I couldn’t live with that. But, okay, it was a future NFL MVP.
Hey, if that’s going to be played forever, whatever, I can live with that.”
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