Josh Allen passed another Buffalo Bills milestone in Sunday鈥檚 34-10 victory over the Tennessee Titans.
By throwing for 323 yards, Allen notched his 30th career 300-yard passing game, counting playoffs. That pushed the Bills quarterback ahead of Hall of Famer Jim Kelly, who passed for 300 or more yards 29 times in his career.
Allen now has played in 111 games, including playoffs. Kelly played in 177 games counting playoffs. The NFL game is more pass-oriented than when Kelly played in the 1980s and 1990s. Allen has attempted 332 more passes in his first 100 starts than Kelly did in his first 100 for the Bills.
Here鈥檚 a position-by-position breakdown of the game, based on video review and scored on a scale of 0 to 5:
Quarterback (4.5). Two of the best throw-and-catch plays were from Allen to tight end Dalton Kincaid. The first converted a third-and-12 situation, with Kincaid showing great hands to make a sideline catch in front of safety Quandre Diggs. It set up the Bills鈥 second TD. The second went for 25 yards to Kincaid on a third-and-8 play to the right sideline. He beat safety Mike Brown in man-to-man coverage.
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鈥淭hat first one, they were playing zone,鈥 Allen said. 鈥淲e had a route out of the backfield with our running back. Felt like the corner attached (to the running back). He (Kincaid) did a good job of maintaining leverage on the safety and he made a heck of a catch. That second one was just man-to-man, trusting him to go make a play. I put a lot of air under it, and he ran under it and made a play.鈥
Head coach Sean McDermott singled out the second play.
鈥淭hat was a huge play, great throw, great catch, and to have the time to do that 鈥 and that鈥檚 not even throwing for depth; you鈥檙e throwing for width, 鈥檆ause it was an outside breaking route. Big-time play.鈥
On an early third-down failure, Allen might have had room to run but opted for a downfield throw for Keon Coleman, who was well covered. On a third-down failure in the second quarter, Amari Cooper slipped coming out of his break, and Allen had to scramble.
Offensive line (4.0). The pass protection was good against a Titans team that lacks edge rushers. Right tackle Spencer Brown shut out the Titans鈥 best rusher, Harold Landry, who has good speed but not a good power rush.
Allen was 5 of 7 for 112 yards and a TD vs. Titans blitzes, according to Buffalo News charting, and he was 4 of 5 for 70 yards on play-action passes.
Dion Dawkins gave up one pressure when he was beaten for his first sack of the season on an inside power move by Arden Key. It was hard to tell if Dawkins was expecting inside help from David Edwards.
It was another good game for O鈥機yrus Torrence, who power-blocked Jeffery Simmons on James Cook鈥檚 11-yard TD run. Edwards and Connor McGovern had superb blocks on that play, too. Torrence also bulled T鈥橵ondre Sweat on Ray Davis鈥 22-yard run in the third quarter. That play was an adjustment by the line. The Titans had shown a five-man defensive line on a couple of run stuffs earlier.
鈥淲e were trying to figure out what they were going to do to match our personnel and trying to understand the front structures they would have with base defense vs. nickel,鈥 Edwards said. 鈥淭hey brought more D-linemen in and took a linebacker out 鈥 that took some time.鈥
Receivers (4.0). It was a strong showing all around, from Kincaid, Cooper, Coleman and Khalil Shakir. Noteworthy: Cooper showed a shifty move to beat man-to-man press coverage at the line on his 19-yard back-shoulder catch.
Running backs (2.5). On a day when passing was the more favorable approach, it was good to see the Bills have better balance on first down. There were 13 runs and 12 passes, with Allen going 9 of 11 for 143 yards on first-down throws. Davis got a good block on the edge from Mack Hollins and ran over two tacklers on his TD run.
Defensive line (4.0). Greg Rousseau had a sack (shared with Dawuane Smoot) plus six other hurries as he exploited a matchup against the Titans鈥 revolving door of right tackles. A.J. Epenesa beat 342-pound rookie left tackle JC Latham with a wide move on the second quarter sack-fumble play in which six blitzed vs. seven blockers.
On the key fourth-and-1 stop in the third quarter, DeWayne Carter defeated guard Peter Skoronski and tight end Chig Okonkwo to stop Tony Pollard, with help from safety Taylor Rapp, who shot a gap.
DaQuan Jones got a well-deserved sack late. He was held on a near-sack on the previous play but got no call. He beat Dillon Radunz the next play for a takedown, with hurry-help from Rousseau and good coverage on the outside by Christian Benford.
鈥淲e鈥檝e just got a problem at right tackle,鈥 said Titans head coach Brian Callahan after the game.
Linebacker (4.0). It was another excellent game from Terrel Bernard, who had four stops near the line of scrimmage, including another leaping tackle on a short-yardage run. And he recovered a fumble. The Bills ran the dime defense (six defensive backs) on 19 plays (28%).
Defensive backs (4.0). The Titans have three standout wide receivers but opted to use heavy personnel on half their plays (24 of 48) the first three quarters 鈥 a sign they didn鈥檛 trust their pass protection and they wanted to try to play ball control. Rasul Douglas was strong in coverage, coming close to two interceptions. Calvin Ridley was held to three catches on nine targets, and one was the checkdown in the Hail Mary situation at the end of the first half. The Bills rushed five men on that play and used Hollins as a deep safety in the end zone.
The Bills blitzed a season-high 16 times, according to News charting, and the Titans netted only a 5.0-yard average on those plays.
Special teams (3.0). Brandon Codrington had four punt returns of 10-plus yards. A 27-yard Bills punt late in the second quarter almost was blocked when Javon Solomon missed a block on the edge. Baylon Spector made a diving tackle on the opening third-quarter kickoff to prevent a big return.