The Buffalo Bills are lucky to have a 10-7 lead on the Jacksonville Jaguars at halftime. Through 30 minutes, Buffalo hasn\u2019t completely resembled the team most of Bills Mafia grew accustomed to watching in 2025. That\u2019s not to say they\u2019ve played off or poorly. It\u2019s just that today has been all about Buffalo\u2019s passing offense instead of its run game \u2014 thanks, no doubt, to that top-ranked run defense of the Jags.<\/p>\n
Beyond luck, the Bills are incredibly fortunate that quarterback Josh Allen is still on the field, and still standing. Allen entered today\u2019s game with a foot injury that he\u2019ll have to just play with this postseason, but Allen has hit and on the ground early and often, and a frequent vistor to the medical tent. Allen has been observed for a concussion (cleared), then later a nasty looking right hand injury after hitting his lineman\u2019s helmet. To top it off, while running in a touchdown, Allen appeared to hurt his knee.<\/p>\n
But\u2026 Allen is a warrior and his teammates need to rally around his play.<\/p>\n
A few things stand out through 30 minutes: Linebacker Shaq Thompson came to play, with an interception, a massive stop of quarterback Trevor Lawrence on a 4th & 2 scramble near Buffalo\u2019s goal line to prevent any points off a turnover, and then later a near second interception. Thompson has been huge in the first half. Also impressive was wide receiver Keon Coleman\u2019s 36-yard catch to set up the Bills\u2019 first touchdown.<\/p>\n
That officiating mess at the end of the half deserves a featured article. Jacksonville should not have been given an opportunity to try for three points \u2014 and it\u2019s pretty fun that they missed in the end. At no point, was the fact that an official got in defensive end Joey Bosa\u2019s way while trying to get onsides addressed.<\/p>\n
Running back James Cook III may not get going today, so Buffalo needs to make up for that in the passing game. Allen is dialed in, and he\u2019s shown up in a big way. It\u2019s time for the rest of the team to rise to the challenge. Can they do it?<\/p>\n
We\u2019re about to find out. With that, here\u2019s your open thread for the rest of Bills-Jaguars, playoff edition. As always, be kind to one another \u2014 and in all things\u2026 Go Bills!<\/p>\n
Bills at Jaguars first-half stats (courtesy NFLGSIS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills are lucky to have a 10-7 lead on the Jacksonville Jaguars at halftime. Through 30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26931,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-114355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-buffalo-bills-discussion","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}