{"id":153912,"date":"2025-09-19T07:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153912\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T07:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:57:07","slug":"nfl-buffalo-bills-beat-miami-dolphins-31-21-to-extend-winning-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153912\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: Buffalo Bills beat Miami Dolphins 31-21 to extend winning start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Buffalo have won the AFC East division title in each of the past five seasons and have now won 13 of their past 14 regular-season meetings with Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rookie running back Ollie Gordon II gave Miami the lead before Buffalo tight end Dalton Kincaid forced the ball in after collecting an Allen pass and last season&#8217;s Most Valuable Player then made a shovel pass to Jackson Hawes for the rookie tight end to score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miami made it 14-14 at half-time as Tagovailoa found Waddle with the first of his two touchdown passes, before James Cook &#8211; who finished with 108 rushing yards &#8211; matched a team record by making it seven regular-season games with a rushing touchdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miami levelled again as Tagovailoa found receiver Hill in the back of the end zone before they handed Buffalo a reprieve as Zach Sieler was penalised for roughing the punter, giving the Bills a new set of downs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five plays later, Shakir got in from a screen pass &#8211; the 200th regular-season touchdown pass of Allen&#8217;s career &#8211; before Bernard&#8217;s interception gave Prater the chance to clinch the win with a 48-yard kick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought the grit, the mental toughness of our football team was on display throughout the game, particularly in the fourth quarter there,&#8221; said Buffalo coach Sean McDermott.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bills host the New Orleans Saints in week four while Miami welcome another AFC East rival, the New York Jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo have won the AFC East division title in each of the past five seasons and have now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-153912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}