Game Recap

Bills 47, Jaguars 10 | Final score, stats to know + game highlights

Sep 23, 2024 at 10:37 PM

Dorian Alerte

Contributing Correspondent

Buffalo Bills vs Jacksonville Jaguars, Regular Season, September 23, 2024 at Highmark Stadium.

Location: Highmark Stadium

Attendance: 70,316

Final score: Bills 47, Jaguars 10

Records: Bills (3-0), Jaguars (0-3)

Next opponent: Bills at Ravens on Sunday, September 29 at 8:20 pm ET

Lineup Notes: Lancaster native LB Joe Andreessen and DE Javon Solomon made their NFL debuts, DE Dawaune Smoot played in his 100^th career game, LB Baylon Spector made his first career NFL start.

The rain before kickoff did not stop the Bills (3-0) as they dominated all three phases of the game, defeating the Jacksonville Jaguars (0-3) 47-10 on Monday night.

Bills QB Josh Allen orchestrated the offense, passing for 263 yards and finding four different receivers for touchdowns, as well as leading the charge in the running game, rushing for 44 yards. RB James Cook captured a touchdown on the ground in addition to 39 yards rushing and 4 catches for 48 yards. WR Kahlil Shakir led all Bills receivers catching all six of his targets for 72 yards and a touchdown. LB Dorian Williams amassed 10 total tackles and S Damar Hamlin caught the lone interception of the game.

1. Aggressive early

The offense started the game off hot with Allen completing five of his first six passes, including a 19-yard catch on the first play from scrimmage to Cook. Then on an early fourth down and three from the Jacksonville 44-yard line, Allen found WR Khalil Shakir for a long completion of 12 yards before Cook ultimately punched it in for the first score of the game from the six-yard line.

The defense matched the offense's energy, forcing an early three-and-out of QB Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars offense with CB Rasul Douglas forcing incompletions in the direction of WR Brian Thomas and Gabe Davis.

Allen continued to air out the ball on the next drive, finding TE Dalton Kincaid on a 28-yard completion up the right sideline that brought them back into the red zone on back-to back possessions.

They were aggressive on another fourth down in the red zone, converting on a fourth-down-and-one from an Allen run. Allen then threaded the needle to Kincaid in the back of the end zone, scoring a touchdown on back-to-back drives to start the game.

2. Capitalizing on short fields + Two-minute drill

The Bills continued their dominant evening when S Damar Hamlin intercepted Lawrence on a pass late in the second quarter.

With the ball at the Jaguars' 41-yard line, the Bills found pay dirt again. Allen found Shakir, who bounced around and ran into the end zone for a 27-yard touchdown, increasing their lead to 27-3.

DB Ja'Marcus Ingram put an end to any hope the Jaguars had of cashing in on their following drive, sacking Lawrence on third down and forcing a punt, giving the offense the ball for one final possession before the first half ended.

Aided by two offsides and an unnecessary roughness penalty, Allen fired a pass into RB Ty Johnson who ran behind the defense into the end zone, increasing the lead to 34-3.

3. Anything you can do…

The Jaguars started the second half firing on all cylinders with Lawrence throwing his first touchdown of the game to TE Brenton Strange, shrinking the Bills lead to 24-points.

The Bills offense responded with a K Tyler Bass 27-yard field goal to bring the lead to 27 points.

After the defense forced two stops of the Jaguars offense, Bass knocked down a 47-yard field goal, expanding the lead back to 30-points.

Rookie RB Ray Davis nailed the final blow into the Jaguars, finding the end zone and bringing the score to 47-10 in favor of the Bills.

4. Rookies for 6

The Bills offense continued to roll on their third drive as it did during the first two as Allen executed an 8 play 68-yard drive to completion. On his first catch of the game rookie WR Keon Coleman caught a pass from Allen and took it 24-yards into the end zone for his first career touchdown.

In the fourth quarter, after a strip sack forced by DE Javon Solomon, Davis was able to punch in a touchdown from 3-yards out, scoring his first career touchdown.

5. Facing pressure

The Bills defense got to Lawrence all evening, ending the game with 4.0 sacks as a defense, two of which came on one drive spanning from late in the third quarter into the beginning of the fourth quarter.

DE A.J. Epenesa got to Lawrence early in the drive on a first-and-ten, but the Jaguars were able to respond. DE Von Miller stopped the offense in their tracks and ended the drive on 10-yard sack on fourth-and-goal, giving the offense the ball.

Ingram, DE Casey Toohill and Javon Solomon got to Lawrence for 1.0 sacks each as well, with Solomon forcing a fumble.

Key Stats and Facts:

Rookie WR Keon Coleman caught his first career touchdown in the second quarter.
Rookie RB Ray Davis scored his first career touchdown in the fourth quarter.
S Damar Hamlin caught his first career interception.
Von Miller is now tied with Derrick Thomas for No. 17 on the NFL's all-time sack list (126.5).
Coleman is the fifth different Bills player to catch a touchdown pass this season, tied with the Saints for the most in the NFL so far this year.
Monday marked the 6^th time Josh Allen has thrown for 200 yards and 3 TDs in the first half of a game. Only Patrick Mahomes (8) has done so more in the first half since 2018.
The touchdown to Ty Johnson marked the fourth time in franchise history the Bills have scored 34 points in the first half of a game.
The Bills have won eight consecutive regular season games, which marks the NFL's longest active winning streak. The Steelers have the next longest streak with five wins.
Josh Allen has thrown four touchdown passes in a half for the second time in his career (1^st half vs. Pit on 10/9/22).
Monday marked the first time the Bills have scored touchdowns on 5 straight drives at any point in a game since the last 5 drives vs. Oakland on 9/18/2011.
The Bills 31-point halftime lead equals the third largest in franchise history. and is the largest since 1992.
This is the fifth time the Bills have scored 30-plus points in the first three games of the season and the first since 2011.
With four touchdowns, Josh Allen now has 25 total touchdowns in Monday NFL games and is tied with Patrick Mahomes for the fastest players to reach this milestone (nine games).
The Bills recorded their third 3-0 start since 2019 (2019, 2020).

Scoring Plays:

9:39 1Q | BUF 6 JAX 0 | James Cook left tackle for 6 yards, TOUCHDOWN. Tyler Bass extra point is Blocked.

3:34 1Q | BUF 13 JAX 0 | Josh Allen pass short right to Dalton Kincaid for 6 yards, TOUCHDOWN.

10:43 2Q | BUF 13 JAX 3 | Cam Little 41-yard field goal is GOOD.

6:25 2Q | BUF 20 JAX 3 | Josh Allen pass deep right to Keon Coleman for 24 yards, TOUCHDOWN.

2:11 2Q | BUF 27 JAX 3 | Josh Allen pass short right to Khalil Shakir for 27 yards, TOUCHDOWN.

0:24 2Q | BUF 34 JAX 3 | Josh Allen pass deep left to Ty Johnson for 16 yards, TOUCHDOWN.

11:20 3Q | BUF 34 JAX 10 | Trevor Lawrence pass short left to Brenton Strange for 6 yards, TOUCHDOWN.

5:06 3Q | BUF 37 JAX 10 | Tyler Bass 27-yard field goal is GOOD.

7:48 4Q | BUF 40 JAX 10 | Tyler Bass 43-yard field goal is GOOD.

4:08 4Q | BUF 47 JAX 10 | Ray Davis right guard for 3 yards, TOUCHDOWN.