However, the Bills answered in the most pronounced way possible with Allen leading them on a five-play, 77-yard touchdown drive. It included consecutive Allen passes of 12 yards to Stefon Diggs and 35 yards to Cole Beasley, who caught a 5-yard TD throw to tie the game at 7-7 early in the third quarter.
Allen collaborated with Diggs and Beasley to shred the NFL’s fourth-ranked pass defense that been allowing an average of 206.5 yards per game. Allen’s 375 passing yards were the most the 49ers have given up this season.
Diggs caught a game-high 10 passes for 92 yards. Beasley finished with nine receptions for 130 yards and a score. His 66 catches on the season made him the first Bill since Sammy Watkins (2014-15) with 60-plus catches in consecutive seasons.
Allen continued to stay locked in the sort of can-do-no-wrong zone he resided through the Bills’ 4-0 start and their 44-34 victory against the Seattle Seahawks.
With considerable time to throw, he showed excellent patience and poise as he went through his reads, usually finding the right place to throw the ball.
“I got into a zone,” Allen said. “When it’s spinning off your hand and you know what the ball’s doing, what the tail’s doing, that’s kind of what I felt. I understood where my guys were. Coach (Brian) Daboll called a great game plan. Our guys did a great job of executing. And in a dome-type setting, with no wind and no cold, when the ball’s spinning off your hand, you feel like you’ve got supreme control, and that’s kind of what I felt tonight.”
