The "throw" was Allen's 258th touchdown pass of the regular season and postseason, tying him with Jim Kelly on Buffalo's history list. Allen has played 18 fewer games and has scored 99 scrimmage TDs to Kelly's seven.
Sunday's jaw-dropper was the type of highlight you'd expect to see on a Hall of Fame highlight reel, but when Allen gets enshrined in Canton five years after he retires, will this one even make the cut?
"You flip back through the games and see he does something like this all the time," Bills tight end Dawson Knox said. "How do you pick the top 10 plays from him, the top 100 plays? I don't even know if that would make it. Maybe 65th?"
Perhaps it's an oxymoron to be conditioned for surprise, but that's how it feels watching Allen perform most games.
Plays like these are not happy accidents. Teams drill these situations.
"A little bit of backyard football," said rookie receiver Skyler Bell, who also was trying to give Allen an outlet on the play. "We work on it a lot, too, but you just need that little kid in you to go out there and find space.
"You've got to know where you are on the field and your relation to the quarterback and where he's moving to, where his eyes are, where the play is flowing, and where all your teammates are to get deep or intermediate. It takes practice to be on the same page like that."
And when Allen is the one with the ball, then everybody better remain on high alert.
"When it happens for him to, I don't know, drop-kick a f--ing ball, you're, like, 'All right,'" Anderson said. "That's just Josh being Josh. He made something out of nothing."
Funny that Anderson would mention Allen's potentially booting the ball.
Coleman mentioned something similar when asked whether it's tricky to catch an unorthodox ball that is arriving slower and with a weird trajectory.
"It's my job to catch every pass that comes my way," Coleman said. "Don't matter if it's upside down, if it's pitched, kicked. I just got to catch it."
Coleman continues to step up after a strange offseason that included owner Terry Pegula saying Bills football boss Brandon Beane didn't want to draft the Florida State receiver with the 33rd overall pick two years ago. Coleman had four receptions for a team-high 59 yards and has three TDs this year.
They have needed him, especially with receiver DJ Moore sidelined again by a shoulder injury. Tight end Dalton Kincaid missed a large chunk of the second half with a rib injury but returned and finished with seven catches for 38 yards. Kincaid, a Las Vegas native, had four catches for 52 yards and no TDs in his previous three games.
The Bills have reached their bye week at 5-1, one loss behind the undefeated Kansas City Chiefs in the conference race and one win ahead of the New England Patriots in the AFC East.
It's difficult to imagine the Bills maintaining this pace with such an awful defense. They have surrendered at least 29 points in five games, the only outlier being the winless Los Angeles Chargers, who might be on the verge of firing offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel.
Then again, with Allen at the controls, anything is possible.
"There's no part of me that's surprised," Knox said. "It's so normal for us to see him do that week in, week out. But the rest of the world is, like, 'Holy cow!' There's a reason why we all think he's the MVP every single year."
This article originally appeared in [The Athletic](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7703553/2026/10/19/josh-allen-flip-pass-touchdown-jim-kelly/).