Michael Jordan never played pro football, but his legacy even ascends the gridiron. The dynasty run with the Chicago Bulls is enough for sports fans across the world to draw comparisons with clutch plays from players of today\u2019s generation. It happened recently when the Buffalo Bills won a playoff game after trailing in the final two minutes.<\/p>\n
The Bills secured a narrow victory in the NFL playoffs wild card round against the Jacksonville Jaguars, 27-24, on Sunday. Quarterback Josh Allen led the team to victory following the script of their many comeback victories this regular season. This earned him the comparison with His Airness from Fox Sports analyst Chris Broussard.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe\u2019s clearly the best quarterback left in the conference, so they were already on notice. But I thought what was so impressive yesterday, like you said, with Superman mode, is like he goes dynamic. I think it wasn\u2019t Superman because it wasn\u2019t dynamic. It was just steady. It was almost like Jordan in the first three peat is Superman mode, and yesterday, Josh Allen was Jordan in the second three peat. Not quite as dynamic, not as spectacular, but just killing you, killing you mid-range here. And, you know, just, and that\u2019s what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bills\u2019 QB had 273 passing yards and three touchdowns, including a 10-yard pass near the end of the game. Josh Allen signed a 6-year, $330 million contract in March last year and justified it against the Jaguars. It wasn\u2019t the 29-year-old\u2019s best game statistically this season, but it had its challenges. Allen required two trips to the medical tent, including one for a concussion test that had to be cleared. Despite this, he completed 28 of 35 passes, not his explosive best, but enough to guide the Bills to the win.<\/p>\n
Broussard compared it to Michael Jordan\u2019s second three-peat era. The Bulls legend came back from his first retirement and would lead Chicago to glory again. During his second run, the points scored on average were 30.4, 29.6, and 28.7 points per season. Again, good MVP numbers, but not dominating as the first three-peat. The numbers from the 90-91 season were 31.5, 30.1, and 32.6 points per season. During the 92-93 postseason, MJ would end with 35.1 points in 19 games.<\/p>\n
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The comparison from Broussard was done to highlight that Josh Allen\u2019s steady performance and mental ability to deliver in clutch moments reminded him of MJ.<\/p>\n
The Michael Jordan and Josh Allen connection is not new<\/p>\n
Allen<\/a> has now won six times this season when tied or trailing in the fourth quarter, including overcoming two double-digit deficits. It was during his second season in the league when he received a comparison with MJ. It was after Allen had just led another fourth-quarter comeback, his fourth of the season and sixth of his career, \u201cBecause Josh Allen\u2019s name starts with a J and end with an N, said left tackle Dion Dawkins about Allen being so good in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n That was cryptic in the first instance, and later Dawkins clarified. \u201cIf you want to go down history lines, fourth quarter starts with J and ends with N, is who? Michael Jordan, but Josh Allen has that Jordan feature in him.\u201d Since then, the Buffalo Bills<\/a>\u2018 star has only increased his stock value. Even Michael Jordan couldn\u2019t resist narrating his story.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Allen collaborated with Gatorade for the \u2018Is It In You?\u2019 campaign, narrated by none other than Michael Jordan<\/a>. \u201cSo iconic! It\u2019s so cool to be a part of. Having MJ in it is pretty dang cool,\u201d Allen said. Now, we saw another Jordan-like performance from the Bills QB. With the season on the line and Buffalo trailing by four with 3:58 remaining, Allen delivered.<\/p>\n The post $330M Quarterback Draws Michael Jordan Comparison During NFL Playoffs: \u201cJust Killing You\u201d<\/a> appeared first on EssentiallySports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan never played pro football, but his legacy even ascends the gridiron. The dynasty run with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,1261,2066,217938,30316,1237,6580,1385,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-412143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-chicago-bulls","12":"tag-chris-broussard","13":"tag-dion-dawkins","14":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","15":"tag-josh-allen","16":"tag-michael-jordan","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412143","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=412143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}