Patriots need revenge on Josh Allen after NSFW reaction to Bills win

If you weren’t rooting for a 3-6 New England Patriots–Buffalo Bills first-round playoff matchup ahead of Sunday’s showdown in Foxborough (or even in the aftermath), you certainly should be now.

A few weeks after the weirdest game of this season or any other season, Patriots fans got a better look at Josh Allen’s offense on Sunday in Foxborough, even without Cole Beasley or Gabriel Davis available.

Allen played — we have to admit it — a damn near perfect game in the rematch. He went 30-47 for 314 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions. He led his team in rushing with 12 attempts for 64 yards. He turned Isaiah McKenzie into a monster (11 receptions for 125 yards).

And, when the Bills needed it most, Allen and Co. became impossible to stop on both third and fourth down, eventually clinching the win with one final, powerful drive.

That was enough to put the fire back in his eyes, apparently, because the second he got back to the tunnel, he uncorked an NSFW celebration aimed back at his doubters. As if … there wasn’t … significant reason to doubt him coming into this showdown?

The Patriots need revenge on Josh Allen for his NSFW taunt.

Oh, please. It’s not as if Patriots fans had a reason to doubt Allen or anything, right? Two decades of evidence of Bill Belichick shutting down every upstart quarterback known to man? A game literally three weeks ago where Allen tried to take over the windy StormBowl with arm talent and failed spectacularly, losing to Mac Jones’ three pass attempts?

Come on, Josh. It’s not like Pats Nation didn’t have a reason (or three) to doubt you.

Bottom line, we respect the screams, but New England fans know we can’t let it end like this. If Allen gets the last word — and the word is this loud — that’s no way to enter the 2022 season, when Mac Jones will be one year older and more comfortable in the offense that he’s largely mastered already.

Look at the wave Allen’s riding into the postseason now! This … cannot continue. Combine it with the Miami Dolphins’ seven-game surge, and you’ve really got something a little frustrating.

Bottom line, perhaps it’s not the worst thing possible that the Patriots and Bills just flipped seeding ahead of a potential January showdown. The last time the Pats had to travel north to Buffalo, things didn’t exactly go as planned for the Bills.

Give us another bad weather game, and perhaps Josh Allen won’t be quite as clear in the aftermath about who the f*** he is.

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