Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens break down Josh Allen's performance against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs and discuss why he may have overtaken Lamar Jackson as the frontrunner for league MVP. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Uh let's start with the Bills who come away with a win in this one.

What did you see from them today?

Uh I saw one of the, one of the absolute plays of the year from Josh Allen, uh late in this game, right, like that closing touchdown.

Um Just an absolutely thrilling play and he could have been dropped behind the line of scrimmage and to, to score from that situation, it felt like one of those moments where there's a bunch of places where you could have like just sort of screenshot it and been like, can you believe he scores from this predicament?

You know, it was just, he, he was phenomenal and it was a, it was a good reminder that, you know, Josh Allen in a bad matchup against a good defense, um with multiple receivers, you know, dinged or out, you know, you got play, um because he still finishes with a, like he wasn't perfect today, still finishes with a rushing score, passing score.

Um, you know, over 50 rushing yards.

He was awesome.

I mean, like this is all this, this game as it does every year, it just felt like prelude, right?

Like we, we, we are surely going to get this again.

Like if Josh Allen ends up winning the MVP this year.

Um This will I think be the moment where the tide turned because obviously Lamar and the Ravens lose to a divisional opponent.

Not that I think that was all Lamar Jackson's fault again.

We're gonna talk about that game here in just a second, but that was definitely, I mean, producer Collins messaged me as soon as it happened that that was, he's like, that's Josh Allen's MVP moment on that game winning touchdown there and, you know, maybe it ends up being that way.

It certainly was a signature moment in his, for a guy that, you know, again, he's, he had that one game against the Texans where, you know, it looked like I joked that the api wasn't updating because his statistics were so bad.

But, um, there was, there was definitely a lot of moments where he has elevated everybody around him.

I think this was the encapsulation of that, of him elevating all of these different playmakers on offense.

So certainly, if he ends up winning the award, this will be uh one of the moments you point to.

Yeah, and if he wins the award, um I, I think part of the case is gonna be that we're, we're just gonna, we're gonna look at this receiving core and we're gonna say, man, he had the usual Josh Allen season and he did it without Steph Diggs and without, you know, somebody who in our, in our minds is just like a complete absolute wide receiver one, no question about it.

Um to, but I mean, he's running it back, putting up numbers again, um and is probably going to finish with a season that looks very much like all of the other Josh Allen seasons that could have won MVP awards, right?

And, and again, if he does it in these circumstances with a signature moment, like, like he gave us today.

Um Yeah, you can, you can make the argument right now.

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