Bills hang on for 34-31 wild-card win over Dolphins

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Josh Allen shrugged off a three-turnover outing by throwing two landing passes 3:11 aside within the third quarter, and rallying the Buffalo Payments to a 34-31 win over the injury-depleted Miami Dolphins in an AFC wild-card matchup on Sunday.

Cole Beasley scored the go-ahead landing with a 6-yard catch, and Gabe Davis prolonged the result in 34-24 with a 23-yard TD reception in a recreation the place Buffalo squandered an early 17-0 lead.

The Payments protection, which pressured six punts and two turnovers, then held on to safe the win when Miami turned the ball over on downs on its ultimate possession.

Rookie Skylar Thompson’s cross on fourth-and-6 went simply off the fingertips of tight finish Mike Gesicki with 2:22 remaining.

Buffalo was capable of run out the clock when Devin Singletary bulled his method for a 7-yard acquire to transform a third-and-7.

It was a sloppy recreation performed between two division rivals, and the result becoming after Miami and Buffalo break up their regular-season sequence in video games determined by a mixed 5 factors. The Dolphins beat Buffalo 21-19 at Miami in September, with the Payments rallying to beat Miami 32-29 final month.

Allen completed 23 of 39 for 352 yards and three TDs, but in addition threw two interceptions, which resulted within the Dolphins scoring 10 factors. He additionally misplaced a fumble whereas being sacked by Eric Rowe, with Zach Sieler recovering the ball and returning it 5 yards for a landing to place Miami forward 24-20, simply 61 seconds into the third quarter.

“It’s a one-week season, that’s it,” Allen stated. “All that issues is surviving and advancing.”

Because the AFC’s second seed, Buffalo advances to host both the third-seeded Cincinnati Bengals or fourth-seeded Jacksonville Jaguars within the divisional spherical. Their matchup shall be decided after the Bengals host Baltimore on Sunday evening.

A Payments-Bengals matchup would come two weeks after their recreation was canceled when Buffalo security Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest and wanted to be resuscitated on the sector.

Hamlin was with the group in spirit, whereas live-tweeting in the course of the recreation from house, the place he continues to recuperate. A message Hamlin posted on his Twitter account about an hour earlier than kickoff learn: “My coronary heart is with my guys as they compete at this time! … Nothing I would like greater than to be on the market with them.”

The 24-year-old Hamlin was launched from a Buffalo hospital on Wednesday and visited along with his teammates on the Payments facility on Saturday.

UP NEXT

Dolphins: offseason.

Payments: Host both Cincinnati Bengals or Jacksonville Jaguars in AFC divisional playoff subsequent weekend.

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