The Buffalo Bills (5-9) travel to Foxboro for a 1 p.m. Eastern clash Sunday against the likely AFC East champion New England Patriots (9-5), and this will be the first time rookie quarterback Josh Allen will start against Bill Belichick and the Patriots.
The last time these two teams met, Oct. 29 in Orchard Park on Monday Night Football, Derek Anderson was the Bills’ quarterback—having been signed to bail out a quarterback-starved Buffalo team. Anderson played like a quarterback who had been chasing his children around the living room a few weeks earlier, and despite holding Tom Brady to zero passing touchdowns, the Bills suffered a 25-6 loss.