Typically, a Buffalo Bills win comes at the same time that Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen is putting up some numbers on the stat sheet. But that wasn’t really the case in the Bills’ 31-10 win over the Dallas Cowboys in Week 15. Allen completed just 7 of 15 passes for 94 yards and a touchdown, and ran for 24 yards and a score. .
Buffalo’s superstar on Sunday was Allen’s backfield mate, running back James Cook. The second-year, second-round pick had a career-high 179 rushing yards and one touchdown on 25 carries for 24 yards. This works out to an average of 7.2 yards per carry. Cook also had two catches for 42 yards receiving, including an 18-yard receiving score in the second quarter. With this performance, Cook becomes the first player to have at least 200 scrimmage yards (221 yards), at least one rushing touchdown and at least one receiving touch in a game since Hall of Fame running back Thurman Thomas did it in the 1991 season. He became the first Bills player to receive a knockdown.
The disparity in performance between quarterback and running back led Allen to joke that the big win made him feel lazy.
“I felt like a kid who got an A for doing nothing in class,” Allen said after the game, via Fox Sports.
Even though Allen felt that way, he made NFL history in Week 15. He recorded his 10th game of the season with a passing touchdown and a rushing touchdown, tying Kyler Murray’s 2020 season record for the most such games in an NFL year. history.