Much has been made of the Buffalo Bills' shortcomings in the playoffs over the years, and with Josh Allen at the helm, fresh off an MVP-winning season, he is the sole hope of ending it.
With the Bills never winning the penultimate prize, but with Allen, Sean McDermott, and one of the most well-rounded rosters in football, 2025 feels like the year that if Buffalo were to do it, it's now.
For NFL.com, in naming an MVP candidate for every AFC team, Allen easily is Buffalo's pick, but ending the Super Bowl drought now rests squarely on his shoulders.
"Like Lamar Jackson in Baltimore: As Allen goes, so go the Bills," NFL.com writes. "Buffalo slashed salary and took weapons away from Allen last offseason, and he responded with one of his cleanest campaigns to date, winning his first MVP award and leading the Bills to the AFC Championship Game. Yes, Buffalo suffered another heartbreaking loss to the Chiefs, but Allen was hardly to blame.
"The Bills signed him to a massive contract extension and likely understand that if they’re going to end the franchise’s Super Bowl drought in this era, it’s going to come riding the shoulders of Allen."
There's no denying that time is running out for Allen and the Bills to end the Super Bowl drought. With the roster that Brandon Beane and Sean McDermott have assembled, it does feel like gut-check time for the AFC East champs.
Of course, winning all the regular-season games won't mean a thing, with Allen now having the unenviable burden of the regular season not mattering at all, with the pure focus being on what happens in the playoffs.
When the Bills do get to the postseason, it will be there that the "real" season starts for Allen, who by the time that rolls around, might be a two-time MVP winner.
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