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Analysis: Bills’ play-action passes were dominant against Detroit Lions

The Buffalo Bills offense dominated the Detriot Lions defense in Week 15, lighting up the scoreboard to the tune of 48 points. Josh Allen turned in another MVP-caliber performance and was the day's highlight for the Bills, but the entire offense looked unstoppable from start to finish. The offensive line was dominant, numerous offensive weapons got involved, and offensive coordinator Joe Brady called an outstanding game. The Bills were successful at almost everything they did, but they found chunk plays when using the play-action pass, let’s take a look at what made them successful.

Buffalo Bills’ play-action passes by the numbers

Josh Allen dropped back to pass 38 times on Sunday against the Lions and on eight of those plays, the Bills ran a play-action pass look which was 21% of their called pass plays.