The Buffalo Bills hadn’t won on Monday Night Football since 1999. Nineteen-ninety-nine! That streak is over, after the Bills confidently returned to relevancy with a 34-24 win over the San Francisco 49ers. The Bills defense stood strong when it mattered, and the offense was surgical in stringing together scoring drives, as the Bills put together a lead that couldn’t be surmounted.
The MNF game, which had been billed as a matchup of two physical, fundamentals-driven teams, sure started off that way. Buffalo’s first drive went 11 plays, 74 yards. San Francisco’s was 13 plays, 97 yards.