The Bills had been shut down by the Patriots on a windswept Monday night and, six days later, their season was officially on life support. At 7–5, a loss in Tampa against the defending Super Bowl champion Buccaneers and Tom Brady would mean falling two games behind their old nemeses from Foxboro and make the rest of December and January a steep uphill climb.
Then, they fell three touchdowns behind the Buccaneers, and their walk to the locker room for halftime might as well have been across a metaphorical Green Mile.
But the Bills would soon figure something out—Josh Allen wasn’t going out like that.
