The Buffalo Bills made things a whole lot harder than they needed to be Sunday afternoon.
Five turnovers, a 10-0 hole, and plenty of mistakes along the way made Buffalo’s 24-16 win over the Los Angeles Chargers anything but pretty. But the Bills found a way out of it, improved to 3-0, and managed to rewrite a few more pages of the record book in the process.
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Some we were waiting for. Some we weren’t.
Either way, there is plenty to Shout! about after Week 3.
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Khalil Shakir only needed one catch Sunday to break his tie with Jay Riemersma and take over 17th place on the Bills’ all-time receptions list. He got exactly that. Shakir now has 205 receptions in his Bills career.
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Dawson Knox had one target Sunday. Good thing he caught it. Knox’s lone reception gave him 233 for his career, tying Cole Beasley for 15th place on Buffalo’s all-time receptions list. One more, Dawson. Same assignment next week.
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The Bills became just the 10th team since the merger to open a season with three straight games against teams that finished above .500 the previous year and win all three.
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Josh Allen joined Jim Brown (1958), Stephen Davis (1999), and Priest Holmes (2003) as the only players in NFL history to open a season with multiple rushing touchdowns in each of the first three games.
Yes, players. Not quarterbacks.
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Greg Rousseau had two more sacks Sunday, giving him six through the first three games of the season. That makes Rousseau the first player in Bills history to record at least two sacks in each of the first three games of a season.
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Plus, there are the records that we already told you about:
Joe Brady became the fifth-youngest head coach in NFL history to begin his career 3-0, joining Josh McDaniels, John Madden, Bill Cowher, and Mike Tomlin.
Allen’s two rushing touchdowns gave him 85 for his career, tying Marshawn Lynch for 17th place on the NFL’s all-time rushing-touchdown list.
And those two touchdowns also gave Allen 108 for his Bills career, tying Andre Reed and Thurman Thomas for the most touchdowns in franchise history.
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Three games. Three wins. Two milestones we were waiting for, several we weren’t, and another week with plenty of reasons to keep the record book handy.
Plenty to Shout! about. Again.
