The 2024 season ended with some individual glory for Bills quarterback Josh Allen, but the ultimate team success remained elusive.
”This is a guy who was ‘overrated,’ right?” Beane said of the 2024 poll that listed Allen as the NFL’s most overrated quarterback following the 2023 season. “In all seriousness, that’s how our training camp day started. Josh asked me the question. And we were getting into the overrated [discussion] to the guy who won MVP.”
The Buffalo Bills won 13 regular-season games and made it to the AFC Championship game, but they lost by three points, so the franchise is close to that elusive Super Bowl. But every offseason, there are a host of changes, and for the Bills, offensively, it looms as another unit that needs a little fixing, specifically at receiver.
One of the oft-cited reasons that Josh Allen was the correct MVP choice was that he had a worse team around him than Lamar Jackson. Perhaps it’s time for the Bills to fix that if it’s true.
Buffalo Bills General Manager Brandon Beane joins Mike Florio and Chris Simms to look back at Josh Allen’s MVP-winning season, reflect on another tough playoff exit, and why the NFL must continue to “embrace technology.