8-time Pro Bowler just took a vicious shot at Josh Allen

It’s Super Bowl week, and since many thought Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills would be playing in this game, naturally, the quarterback’s name is everywhere you look.

On ESPN’s First Take Wednesday morning, the cast opened up a debate on which quarterback, between Allen, Joe Burrow, and Lamar Jackson, has the best shot of reaching the Super Bowl next season.

Despite Allen being the only player among the three to even lead his team to the postseason in 2025, and beating both quarterbacks during the season head-to-head to do so, it’s Allen who seems to have earned less faith in getting over that hump. At least, that’s how star New Orleans Saints edge rusher Cameron Jordan sees it.

Saints star Cam Jordan casts doubt on Josh Allen’s Bills postseason resume

“Joe Burrow has proven he can get to the Super Bowl. I would love to see Lamar Jackson get to the Super Bowl,” Jordan said. “Josh Allen, if I thought anything, I thought this year was the year. I said, ‘Oh, all these guys are out. It’s his time.’ And he proved what I thought about him: He plays excellent during season, he shows up, he is Superman, and at the same time, he can’t win those big games, right now.”

Allen did turn the ball over four times against the Denver Broncos, and those turnovers played a bigger role in the Divisional Round loss than ex-head coach Sean McDermott’s defense did. However, it’s not as though that’s a regular occurrence for Allen. Allen has thrown just six interceptions in 15 postseason games. While he’s fumbled 15 times in the postseason, only four were lost. 

Of course, four of those 10 turnovers came against Denver and are still fresh on everyone’s minds.

“Again, he could always switch up the narrative years from now, next year,” Jordan added before emphasising why Jackson should be poised to take the next step he didn’t take in 2025.

But that’s just it. Allen isn’t the one who needs to ‘switch up the narrative,’ it’s the entire Bills organization. It was Allen who left the field with a lead against the Kansas City Chiefs in the 13-second game. It was Allen who played nearly perfect football in Duval to knock the Jacksonville Jaguars out of the Wild Card to pick up his first road postseason win. 

More importantly, especially with Jordan dismissing Burrow’s relevancy to the conversation and going to bat for Jackson, it’s Josh Allen who has a winning record, 8-7, in the postseason. 

Jackson, who Jordan seemed to back up the most in this debate, has played in just eight playoff games, where he holds a 3-5 record and has turned the ball over 11 total times, having one more interception than Allen and the same number of fumbles lost.

Jackson has won an MVP, but has reached the AFC Championship just once, where he turned the ball over twice. Allen has just one turnover in two AFC Championship appearances.

Need I remind that Jackson has been in the league just as long as Allen and had a head coach who had already won a Super Bowl at his disposal with consistently elite rushing attacks and defenses, prior to Zach Orr taking over as defensive coordinator in 2024? He has had five top-3 scoring defenses compared to Allen’s three.

Of course, the 2025 season requires a heap of context. Injuries, those sustained by Burrow and Jackson and the rest of their respective teams, played a huge role in their missing the playoffs. But both were healthy when they lost to Allen.

The 2026 season will have its own context. The Bills and Ravens have new head coaches and need to fortify their defenses this offseason to keep up with their offensive prowess. While the Bengals won’t be settling in with a new head coach themselves, they have bigger defensive issues than any team in the league not named the New York Jets. 

Jordan has a fringe Hall of Fame-caliber resume, and at 36, just finished another disappointing season with the Saints with 10.5 sacks, bringing his career total to 132.5, second only to Von Miller among active players and 17th all-time. He’s earned his right to speak about quarterback play, no doubt. 

But in this discussion, he’s not just misguided, he’s wrong. Allen has proven himself to be not just a capable postseason quarterback, but an elite one. Framing his entire postseason career around his most recent performance, which just so happened to be the worst of the 15 showings he’s offered, is disingenuous at best. 

These three quarterbacks all have a mountain of pressure because they’ve all proven they possess the talent to win a Super Bowl. But all three have failed in a variety of ways over the years, no matter how close they’ve gotten. To position Allen as the biggest failure of the three, though, as the guy who just can’t get it done, it simply doesn’t stack up with the way reality has played out over the past decade.