When the Buffalo Bills traded up five spots in the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft to draft Josh Allen, the expectation was that he would become the face of the franchise. The hope was that he would be the franchise quarterback that the Bills had been missing since Jim Kelly. Allen certainly had a lot of growing early on in his career, but he showed plenty of flashes as well that impressed Bills Mafia.
Then once the 2020 season came, everything clicked for Allen. Since that season, Allen has become a consistent MVP candidate and hasn’t looked back, and he won the MVP award from the 2024 season ahead of Lamar Jackson (and yes, Allen deserved it more). Since coming into the league, Allen has become a player that doesn’t just break records, but he has created history as well.
He has helped the Bills win division titles, playoff games, and create some of the best memories for the fanbase. However, he still has two major accomplishments left to do. First is to make the Super Bowl, and then ultimately help bring the Lombardi trophy to Western New York. For as great as he is, he hasn’t been able to overcome that major challenge yet, but it’s also important to note that he can only do so much and that he needs the rest of his team to pick up the rest of the slack.
Josh Allen's Super Bowl take has former NFL coach pushing back
On the show First Things First, former NFL head coach and current analyst Eric Mangini recently reacted to a statement by Josh Allen, in which Allen talked about how the city of Buffalo “winning a Super Bowl is the last greatest sports story in all of the world.” Allen then said he wanted to be the one that brings that joy to Bills Mafia. Mangini pushed back on that and talked about how Buffalo needs to reach the Super Bowl first.
“I think the first step is probably getting to the Super Bowl, like that might be a nice step. It’s gotten a lot harder because now the New England Patriots are a totally different franchise than the first part of your career, so that’s problematic. You had the opportunity last year with no Lamar [Jackson], no Joe Burrow, no Patrick Mahomes, so you had that.” said Mangini.
“And then even if you get there, you’ve got all the problems that the NFC creates as arguably the stronger conference. So, let’s take the first step of getting to the Super Bowl.” Mangini added.
Josh Allen: “This city winning a Super Bowl is the last greatest sports story in all of the world... I want to be the guy that does it.” Coach Mangini reacts:
— First Things First (@FTFonFS1) June 8, 2026
“It’s a little bit self-aggrandizing isn’t it… Let’s take the first step of getting to the Super Bowl.” pic.twitter.com/KmqKK3Lmlm
Mangini does bring up valuable points that Bills fans may not like. We constantly talk about how the Bills are Super Bowl contenders, but when they haven’t reached the Super Bowl while quarterbacks like Drake Maye and Sam Darnold were just in it last year, it gives that little bit of reality of what Buffalo needs to do.
The Bills have been one of those teams that has had major disappointment throughout their history and when they turned things around when Allen came into the picture, it’s hard not to root for them. If Buffalo can deliver a Super Bowl to the fanbase, it would do so much for the city and the fanbase that have been very faithful through the good and bad times.
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