Josh Allen finally got the overtime result that had been missing from his résumé.
On Monday night, the Buffalo Bills outlasted the Los Angeles Rams 37-34 in overtime, and with Tyler Bass’ field goal sailing through the uprights, Allen could exhale after a long wait for his first win in extra time.
It was a notable personal milestone for a quarterback who has played in plenty of high-stakes overtime games but had come up short each time until now. Buffalo’s last overtime win before this one came in 2017, when Tyrod Taylor led the team to a 13-7 victory over the Indianapolis Colts.
Allen’s overtime record now stands at 1-7, with this breakthrough coming in his ninth season. Several of those losses came in games where he never got the ball back before the NFL changed the overtime rules, and many were against elite opposition.
Three of those seven defeats came in the playoffs. The most familiar one is the “13 seconds” loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in January of 2022. Allen also fell in overtime to the Houston Texans in his first playoff game, a Wild-Card matchup in January of 2020, and to the Denver Broncos in a divisional round game in January of 2026.
His other regular-season overtime losses came against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2021, the Minnesota Vikings in 2022, the New York Jets in 2023, and the Philadelphia Eagles in 2023. Six of his seven overtime losses were against playoff teams or teams that would go on to reach the postseason that year.
There’s one more wrinkle to this milestone: Allen is now 1-0 in overtime games with Joe Brady as his head coach, after the previous seven losses came with Sean McDermott.
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