Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills only AFC East team highly praised on latest B/R list

The Buffalo Bills are off to a great start this season, but they are coming off an embarrassing primetime loss last Sunday night against the Baltimore Ravens. They currently sit at 3-1, on top of the AFC East and they clearly look like the best team in the division and it’s not even close.

When you examine the rest of the division and how they have performed, it is a mixture of inconsistency and overall bad football. The Dolphins have been hit with a major injury bug that started with Tua Tagovailoa in Week 2 against the Bills. The Jets have shown too much inconsistency. One week they show off their dominance, then they lose the following week to a rookie quarterback who only passed for 60 yards against them. With the Patriots, it has just been awful for them aside from their shocking Week 1 win over the Cincinnati Bengals.

Buffalo will be looking to turn things around in Week 5 against the Houston Texans. The anticipated matchup of Stefon Diggs taking on his old team will be the storyline of the week. However, it will be exciting to watch Josh Allen and C.J. Stroud battle it out for their respective teams. 

Even though the most recent memory of the Bills is not a great one, they still enter this week as one of the best teams in the NFL. Alex Ballentine from Bleacher Report created a one-sentence list that describes each NFL team through the first four games of the season.

Ballentine only gave one sentence of praise to the Bills, while the rest of the AFC East were viewed as nothing higher than inconsistent football teams.

"Josh Allen continues to make up for deficiencies, and the Bills have looked like Super Bowl contenders...except a Sunday Night Football blowout loss to the Baltimore Ravens in Week 4."

- Alex Ballentine, Bleacher Report

The Buffalo Bills are still the leader of the AFC East

I know, it’s only been four games. However, it is easy to see that the Bills are still the team to beat within the AFC East. Sure, they got destroyed by the Ravens last Sunday night. At the same time, the rest of the AFC East has had some sort of embarrassing loss.

With Miami, they were crushed by the Bills 31-10 infront of their home crowd. The Jets couldn’t score double digit points against a Denver team that has a rookie quarterback in control. Then the Patriots are so limited that they would be lucky to get close victories.

As Week 5 starts up this weekend, it will be important to see how the Bills respond from last week. Houston is a solid football team, but they have not been as dominant as people were predicting heading into the season. The Bills and Texans will test each other and it would not be surprising if this game comes down to the wire.

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