NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Bills-Lions 2026 Week 2 TNF Recap: Josh Allen is in The Matrix

Episode Date: September 18, 2026

Gregg Rosenthal and Nick Shook recap Josh Allen going beast mode against the Lions on Thursday Night Football. Are the Lions in trouble after starting the season 1-1? Can Josh Allen carry the Bills to a spot in the Super Bowl? Those answers and more!  NFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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for the second week in a row has gone for two rushing and two passing. But that's not all. He went for three passing in the end. Five touchdowns total on the opening night for Highmark Stadium.

We should have known that the Lions were walking into a buzzsaw. 41 to 31. The Buffalo Bills roll over Detroit on a really exciting night. in Buffalo. Nick Shook is with me.

Thank you to everyone. Joining us live, listening to us as a podcast. We shouldn't be surprised at this point, but man, Josh Allen to start this season, fillets the Houston Texans, and then puts a 40 burger up.

What stood out to you most, Shook, from this performance? It was the pace with which the bills started this game. They came out red hot. It was like they sprinted out of the gate and no team would have been able to keep pace for them.

That's how energized they were. That's how successful. they didn't have a third down on their first scoring drive and then by half time, and after their first four drives, it was touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown. They had what?

Six total touchdown drives, eight total drives. Six touchdowns, two punts. That's the game. That's a really tough team to beat and that's a team that played inspired football tonight. Yeah.

Look, the Lions defense has problems. We will get into it. The great offenses will take advantage. The fact that the bills did this not as aggressively, but close to the Houston Texans, puts it in a different light. But yes, the Detroit Lions have given up, what, 30 points in the second half and overtime last week and 41 here. That's 71.

Not many stops tonight. There were two punts, and one of them happened when there was a drop by the Buffalo Bills. We're seeing a lot of these great highlights, and the running game from Josh Allen was fantastic. But what stands out to me, partly, shook, is the 12 personnel, the heavy packages. I know Jordan Roderig is at home watching this and enjoying it. And the aggression with like how they are getting heavy is really next level. You remember when they drafted Dalton Kincaid, they said, oh, we're calling it 11 and a half personnel because he's kind of a receiver, kind of a

tight end. It was before it got super trendy. Tonight, you know, before the kneel down drive, they were playing more than half the time in either 12 personnel with two tight ends on the field or 13 personnel with three tight ends on the field. And they were effective when they had three receivers as well. DJ Moore's injury might have played into that. But it is really opening up my guy, Dalton Kincaid. What the heck? Let's listen to Chris Brown and Bill's radio call that Dalton Kincaid touchdown. Allen and the shotgun takes the snap back to pass looking over the middle, rips it and it's complete for a touchdown to Galton Kincaid. A 16-yard touchdown pass.

Allen ripped a laser right over the middle. That throw was on a rope to Kincaid, and they are just completely picking on that linebacking for and safety across the middle of the field for the lines. That was awesome, and that play, I think, shows what this offense wants to do and just how in the Matrix, Josh Allen is right now. We can get to the running,

but he's really seeing the field really well. What did you see out of this heavy personnel two tight end, three tight ends, and then how Josh Allen is orchestrating it all. Well, I saw how it gives so many teams so many problems. I mean, if you look at the distribution between groupings tonight, it was 23 plays in 11, 21 and 12, and 20 and 13. And 13 really showed up in the fourth quarter when they needed to put the game away on the ground. But what it does is that makes them incredibly multiple and difficult to predict

because you have such a rushing threat in the backfield in James Cook, who was over 100 yards by half time tonight, by the way. And then you have the two tight ends who can both make plays. obviously Kincaid has been off to the better start of the two, but Dawson Knox makes a cameo appearance in this game as well when it comes to catching passes for touchdown. So everything works because they can attack you in so many different ways to the point that you didn't even really notice that DJ Moore left the game with an injury.

You didn't really notice that Keon Coleman left the game with an injury because it was guys like Josh Pollard getting opened downfield. It was great. It was great. Look, Keon Coleman had one of his, okay, I don't want to exaggerate. He had a pretty good rookie season. But just the fact that you mentioned, DJ Moore goes out with a shoulder injury. They called it a stinger and a shoulder injury at first and then it just appeared to be a shoulder injury. They got x-rays.

They ruled them out. So we will see. Yeah, you're a little worried about him, at least in the near term. But Keon Coleman made some catches early, but the one that stands out to me was a contested catch, wasn't open by much, on the sideline, third and long. the Lions actually got this game to within 10 points. They got the ball with only down 10 points in the fourth quarter. And for a game that felt like it was just going to be a laffer when it was 21-0, it felt tight.

But when the bills got the ball back and they had one of their rare third and longs on the night, Keon Coleman made it happen. And so I think you've got to feel pretty good about the diversity. Do you think they can survive without DJ Moore for a little while if that turns out to be, you don't want to be? to be doctor from the sideline, but sometimes when you fall hard on it, it's like an AC joint sprain, and that's a multi-week type of injury. Yeah, it's, I was concerned about collarbone when he first fell on the side of his shoulder

and grabbed right here because that's usually like a telltale sign. So we still... He wasn't like holding it when he came off the field. So I think in the end that probably... Usually when you break your collarbone, you see somebody holding their arm too, and he was not holding his arm. So that's a good sign. but the concern level is not super high with can they weather this because their ability to

roll with the heavy tight end personnel is and because James Cook is in that backfield, it allows them to still be a great threat, not to mention the fact that you have Josh Allen. You can kind of establish the run, boot action out of that, and because you have Allen, he is a threat and they can still move the ball that way. Does it limit them a little bit? Yes. But as we saw tonight, it wasn't really about to do. It wasn't about Keon Coleman. And yes, they got an early lead, so it wasn't a great example of how they would approach

a four-quarter game. But as it stands right now, I still feel very good about this offense. I mean, they've been incredibly explosive. The Lions defense has problems, like we said, but they were explosive against the Texans. And two games in, they look, I mean, the Joe Brady offense is flying about a time at the LSU in 2019. Why are they so different? It's the same guy calling the offense.

And yet, it is really different. It's a healthy Kincaid number one. it's DJ Moore, you know, for the time that he's been on the field, number two. But they are throwing the ball so much deeper down the field. They were dinking, Doug, and Josh Allen. It was like they had done, you know, they kind of made our beautiful big boy a little boring, you know. Like Josh Allen was just dinking and dunking down the field the last couple of seasons, low average depth of target.

And now he's ripping it. I think Kincaid is kind of the key to all of it. And you look at the snap distribution. Jackson Haas, their third tight end, played 34 snaps tonight. That's the same as Khalil Shakir. Dossan Knox plays 51. Kincaid plays 47. So everything that Dalton Kincaid fantasy owners were hoping for, he goes seven for 95 in a touchdown

in this game. My prediction that he finishes, you know, top three among tight ends and goes over a thousand yards. I mean, he's practically a quarter of the way there. I went and looked it up, Shook. I would give you my entire life savings if you can name me the, all-time leader in Bill's seasoned for a tight-end yardage, if you can name that man. In the next three seconds, you can't cheat in his podcast. I'm drawing a blank.

It's Paul Costa from the 1967. Yeah, I'm not giving you a chance to take my life. I've worked hard. But Kincaid's like, you know, a third of the way there already after just a couple weeks. Let's talk about that running game. James Cook goes for 135 yards on the ground. They were moving people. And then there's Josh Allen who through 11 carries before the kneeled downs.

Can you guess his success rate if we're just playing games here? I'd like to put you on the spot. 100%. 100% success rate. You don't see that. Every time they got in third and short, you know, second and short, fourth and short. It's Josh Allen. It's on the goal line.

He got a couple touchdowns. He runs for 69 yards. I've long said it is the most successful play in football. And now it's a historical play because Josh Allen scored the very first touchdown in Highmark Stadium on the ground. James Cook right behind Allen under center. First and goal from the one. They push it over the left side. And he looks to be over the goal line.

He is. Josh Allen in for a one-yard touchdown run. And the bills are on the board first in the debut regular season game here at Highmark. It is so funny how their sneak has evolved to the point where they're still going over the left side, just like they did a couple of years ago and got stuffed by the chiefs, arguably. And yet now, instead of just doing the regular sneak where you take the snap and immediately lunch forward, Alan's doing a little bit more of a shuffle, a pronounced hop, skip to the left, a gather of sorts, and then pushing forward. And of course, it worked on a night like tonight.

He is in the zone right now where he's obviously got all of the, his physical traits. And I thought there was a couple throws. He was a little inaccurate on tonight if you wanted to pick nets. I mean, he was incredible, but his accuracy is so improved that you're surprised when he misses a throw or two. And he missed a couple. That's going to happen. But mentally right now, I think he's really seeing the field. Before, you know, we kind of hit the lions struggling defense of it all and talk a little bit about the other side of the ball. Just give me any thoughts on this. Bill's running attack and kind of how the lion struggled

and maybe where you finished this game thinking about where the lions are at right now. They do not have Brian Branch. They do not have Kirby Joseph. For the most part, they're healthy on defense otherwise. That's a big, you know, but it's their two key safeties. Like, what do you think their problem is? Because everyone's saying, oh, you can't just play man coverage all the time. haven't the last couple weeks. They didn't blitz like crazy or anything tonight.

Anything they tried basically didn't work. So it's hard to really just blame it on the scheme. Well, two of the players who you just mentioned are crucial to their back end of their defense, Brian Branch and Kirby Joseph. And so I think you kind of give them a little bit of a break in that regard. But like, you know, you could look at last week's game and be like, well, they were solid until everything kind of fell apart and they got hit by an avalanche of offense in the third and fourth quarter against the Saints. And the Saints threw for 3.78. And that game. That's a big number. And tonight, the bill's through for, what, 243? So not quite as big of a number, but they rushed for 200 yards. So what I'm seeing right now is bad all over the place.

And no matter how much I kind of like a little bit of their front, I don't like the product of this defense overall, whether it's Rocky Sten getting hit for a holding call on a play that should have been an interception in this game in the first half, or just the inability to respond and to cover well enough. I mean, we're talking like quick fires. Like this is not plays breaking down because of extended dropbacks and scrambles and improvisation. This is stuff that they're just not covering. So there's a lot of concern right now with this team. And the offense wasn't good enough to keep up in the first half.

Jared Goff was very good in the second half. And one of my notes that I had written about around halftime, maybe early third quarter, was that they're really going to need James and Williams to take the next step at some point because it can't be Jemir Gibbs getting a billion touches, which he didn't get as many tonight. That's an improvement. but they still rely on him heavily.

It can't be Amin Rae St. Brown trying to make, get open all the time in the receiving core, and then Sam Leporte. You're going to need a fourth option if you're going to have to put up the number of points that this defense is requiring you to put up right now. So, yeah, they're one in one. It's early. Don't want to overreact or anything. But this is like the lions of, what, two years ago where we thought,

yeah, they're really good offensively, but we don't really know if their defense is going to hold up and they got hit by injuries late, except it's week two and their defense isn't holding up. they're awful, and they were awful down the stretch. And I think it comes down to personnel. You get Branch and Joseph back at some point, but the way they've talked about Kirby Joseph's injury, if you're not familiar with him,

he really emerged in Detroit as like an all-pro caliber, deep safety, but has not been healthy whatsoever. I think they're hopeful maybe Brian Branch comes off as Achilles a little sooner than expected, but either way, they're both on injured reserve right now, but that's not going to change their cornerback. situation. It's, it's Rock Yesin. It's DJ Reed who hasn't really lived up to the contract that they gave him. And then Avanti Maddox, who's kind of a journeyman at Slot got hurt tonight and carted off. And

at safety, they've just got guys that haven't played a lot in the NFL. And then I look at their linebacker position. It's been a rough couple weeks for Jack Campbell, who they gave a huge contract to and they need him to be a pillar. And maybe he's suffering from the players around him, you know, having to do too much. Like he's starting next to Devin, Devin White, who wasn't signed for most of the offseason. But Jack Campbell's struggled a little bit in coverage this season. He has missed some run fits,

missed some tackles. And they just have a lot of problems that I don't know if scheme and just one or two safeties is going to help it. And I agreed with, I was thinking about throwing out of take shook. It's like this offense needs to be capital E elite to survive how bad this defense is. But the offense played great tonight.

I really don't even. think, I know they had a couple. They got stuff. Initially, they did not. Initially, they were very slow. It was like two drives. I hear that. The offensive line was missing three starters total.

Cade Mays is out for half the season, so we're not expecting the center back soon. But Blake Miller, their starting right tackle, was out. That was a surprise. Christian Mahogany, their guard was also out. They both got hurt in week one. There was some reporting that indicated both of those guys might have played if this game was on Sunday. It is brutal going on the road in week two for Thursday night football

after you haven't played any tackle football all year. So I'll give them a little bit of a pass. But golf played awesome in this game. Gibbs was awesome. Amon Ra was awesome. Like La Porta looks so good this year. He's moving well in blocking. Maybe you're right.

They're not like top five offense, but they're the least of my problems. They'll get healthier on the offensive line. They just need this defense to wake up. Yeah, I just worry about like competitiveness. And if this defense can't find a way to, put it together even if they get, you know, those two safeties back, you're just going to have to score. Like, I think it is going to need to be capital E elite to be competitive against the best

teams in the NFL. Now, in a week-to-week basis, you can still win games like this. You can, you know, withstand a massive comeback in week one against the Saints because you're at home because you have an offense that can still go down the field and score a touchdown when you need it most. But against these best teams, the elite tier of teams, when you're on the road, when they just drop a 28-pointer on you out of nowhere, you got to be able. One of my points on game day preview tonight was how do the Lions keep up with this Bill's offense? Shorten the game, ball control, methodical drives.

You cannot afford to go three and out. What did they do? They went three and out in the first possession. And they didn't really wake up until they were down double digits. And I know they got a garbage time TD to get it to 31 points, but Goff was dealing. He ends up with four touchdown, 327 yards.

Amman Ra ended up with 142 yards in two touchdowns. I actually have liked what I've seen mostly out of Drew Petsing's offense. There was a drive after half time. They really dedicated just to Amman Ra. He had four catches, 37 yards, and a touchdown. And then Jemir Gibbs was incredible in this game. I know it feels off topic here, but, you know, our producer Eric lovingly puts together

a highlight reel of the Jemir Gibbs drive. And I want to see it. I mean, this is a guy that went three catches, 31 yards, and a touchdown on one drive. and then also rips off two straight explosive runs. And in a game where Josh Allen goes for five touchdowns, I'm sitting here thinking, like, is Jemir Gibbs the best player in this game? You said like they didn't have to use him too much.

He still ends up with 22 touches total, 113 yards from scrimmage and a touchdown. And some of these moves, man, he might be RB1 right now. I know Bijon's awesome, but some of the routes that Gibbs is running like on that touchdown and the way that he's breaking tackles, the power, this is Alabama Gibbs right now. He's just carrying the load and he's just a joy to watch right now.

So I was tracking, first off, I was tracking his touches going into this drive. I had posted on social media that he was up to eight. By the end of this drive, I think he was over 10. And then I was tracking him on that specific play where he scored the touchdown where I watched him motion out of the backfield and I'm thinking they're going to go to him. Like Jared Goff is definitely going to go to him. I watched Gibbs motion to the right, get out of the backfield, And the cut that he makes to get past the first defender

as he heads toward the end zone makes me think it's a Texas. Or as some people call it an angle route, which is just like 45. It's like, I don't know, the point of a triangle if you flipped it on its side. I'm not good at math, or geometry. But instead you see the replay from above,

and it's straight up the seam. It's just that he does that little shuffle to the left to get past that defender. And then the best part of that catch is he leaves up in the air to grab it and he takes a blow to the back that would have forced that football out of a lot of players. For him, no problem. Hangs on, scores, physical player,

somebody that I just need to make sure they keep together and don't rely on him too much over the course of an entire season because he's so fun to watch. I mean, he's, what, the highest paid running back? He deserves it. And when he puts in nights like tonight and days like last week, they're getting their money's worth out of him for sure. Look, we work hard on this show.

A lot of programming. We got a pick show coming up on Friday. I want to treat myself. I want to hear Dan Miller call a touchdown for the first time this season on NFL Daily. Maybe the best in the game covering the Detroit line. Golf's going to work out of the gun. Gibbs in motion to the right. Goff back and looking, lofting end zone.

Cotsamir Gibbs. Touchdown Detroit Lions. Gibbs went in motion right. Goff came back to him. Connection for the touchdown. C.J. Gardner Johnson, the former lion in coverage. But golf found him, and the lines were on the board for the first time tonight. Oh, he had to calm it down because, you know, at that point, they're down 21 to 7.

And so he's representing the home crowd. But always good to have Dan Miller on the call. What do we think about the bill's defense tonight this season? Look, they've given up over 30 points in both games. Dionne Walker has been outstanding. Shout out to Jordan Rodriguez, who has been talking him up forever. I mean, he is having a breakout season. and he was great tonight.

So was Greg Rousseau. But otherwise, not a ton of stops right now out of this Bill's defense. Yeah, and I think a lot of that has to do with what's going on in their secondary. They're in a bit of a transition in the back end. Like Davison-Igbenosin, you know, getting a holding call in the second half.

I was like, that's not a surprise. That's what happened to him at Ohio State all the time until his final year. He kind of cleaned it up. They're relying on some guys just who don't have a ton of experience back there. But I really like most of their front seven. Guys like Walker, guys like Rousseau.

They lost Ed Oliver in warmups, so he wasn't able to play and they still were able to hold up in the front. And Terrell Bernard, quietly having a nice first couple of games here. You know, he recovered the fumble to close the win over the Texans. And he's kind of just in the mix pretty consistently there. They could be better. They obviously could be better. But with an offense like this, I'm not as concerned about it as I am about Detroit.

Yeah, if you don't have DJ more for a long time and you want to win the Super Bowl in general, Obviously, the defense is going to need to improve Jim Leonard, the new defensive coordinator, mixing it up tonight. I think eventually the lines kind of figured out what they were doing despite being short-handed on the offensive line. But you look at the bill's schedule. They're in Highmark Stadium now for three straight weeks. It's rare that that happens.

They are home for the Chargers, home for the Patriots. So they could try to put a little distance between them and the Patriots, depending on how this first month of the season goes. they're at home and can you get to 4-0 with a head-to-head win, that would mean the Patriots have at least two losses, maybe three. You have to beat the Chargers too, but this is what's in front of this team that is absolutely one of the favorites in the AFC, and Josh Allen with nine touchdowns through two weeks is going to be at the front of a lot of conversations.

What did you think about the first night, Highmark Stadium? It was an occasion, and it was cool. It was also cool that Al Michaels has announced, 10 different openings of stadiums? I mean, you know you've been around a while to announce 10 openings of stadiums. Any thoughts on the vibes and everything in Buffalo tonight?

What were the stadiums that were involved? Lincoln Financial Field. I think Cowboys now 18T Stadium might have been one of those as well. There was a number of them. So-Fi was one, but it must have gone back a while. Yeah.

I mean, it got to the point where the footage got all grainy because it was like the old CRT footage, four-by-three ratio, right? That's how long he's been around. That was very cool. I thought that the pomp and circumstance matched the occasion. And what was really cool was their intros.

Look, I actually am pretty romantic about what was once known as Ralph Wilson Stadium. They had a number of different names, Rich Stadium at one point. High Mark, I think New Era Field at one point. Because of the way that it was built, it was in the ground, and you had the grandstands above the upper decks, and it looked really cool with the aerial shots at night. But this is like going from, you know, one bedroom on the... the second floor and your windows right next to the dumpster out back to the penthouse.

And I know people have made issues with the whole sightlines thing and whether you know, you can't see... Yeah, they fixed all that. Maybe I have no idea. It looked spectacular tonight. The pregame intros, they got all the lights lit up among the fans. It's dark. You got all the pyrotechnics shooting off the roof.

It's great. I do. I am very curious to see, because I was monitoring on Twitter that it was still so loud there that everybody was all charged up. What happens, getting ahead of myself here, but what happens if you're in a key playoff game and that stadium's rocking and the sounds reflecting off the roof like it does in Seattle? Does that change things for the bills? Because in the past, they were in a stadium that had no roof or no overhang. It might be better. It might be better. It would be better. And I guess it was also perfect that Josh Allen had another fantastic night to open the stadium,

considering he is the bills in a nutshell. These are the good old days. I think Bill's fans that have been around long enough to see their team not make the playoffs for almost two decades can't appreciate that. And the opponent tonight was fitting because it's these two franchises that have just struggled and struggled for so long. And they are right now in the best stretch for the lions that they've ever been in, you know, since the Super Bowl era started. I know they won some titles before that. But the stat that Campbell and Gough have already won the most games of any head coach quarterback combo in Lions history is nuts. And yet, because Jared Goff is a very good quarterback, deserves to be on QB Island,

really. Like, he's not Josh Allen. The fact that it's Josh Allen in his prime, new stadium, these teams, they do feel different. And that stadium with the canopy that's holding in the sound, at least according to what it sounded like from home. And then I also was checking out on social, on Twitter, on Blue Sky. guy of some people that are at the game and they're saying like bills fans like it is deafening

there they did a great job with him with the introductions coming out and it was just it was an occasion and I want to see it with the snow and everything I want to see what it looks like but that is going to be a very tough place to play especially shook if they get the bare naked ladies to sing the Canadian national anthem before every game that was a nice touch they're going Canada before every game that's a nice little paying homage to uh there time that they, because they spent a little bit of time in Canada. Let's not forget. Well, I mean, they've got a million, they're Canada's team. They're trying to be Canada's team. They already are. But, you know, how many Canadians are in the crowd there tonight? So I appreciate

them. Unless you're in the Pacific Northwest, then you're, then that portion of Canada's team is Seattle. But that's neither here nor there. There was a time, I would like to remind people not that long ago where Bill's fans thought their team was going to leave town because they couldn't get a stadium built. That's why they did the whole flirting with Toronto thing in playing a game at the Skydome, formerly the Skydome, now the Rogers Center, pretty much annually for a few years. They were testing the waters. And now you got new digs, man. You got the newest stadium in the NFL. What a nice end to the story, or at least a nice next chapter in the Bill's story, that you finally get a new stadium. It's right across the street from where your old one was.

And I know there's some Lions fans out there. There's some in the chat that are worried, like the window is closing. You got a lot of young, great talent. Panais, Sewell, by the way, doesn't look quite as comfortable, maybe at left tackle as he did it right? But you have young talent to build around, but it's not like the bills, where I feel like their fans should absolutely be thinking Super Bowl every year, especially this year after the start. Let's wrap up with one more call just to honor Josh Allen and this offense on this night. Let's hear that Josh Palmer bomb.

Once again, Josh Palmer coming up in a big spot. Allen in the shotgun. There's a snap. It's a blitz. Alan, back to pass, gets rid of it. Looking deep down the middle, wide open is Josh Palmer. Who's going to go for a 43-yard touchdown? Okay, I need to talk about this play real quick. I need to talk about this.

I'm not trying to pile on Avanti Maddox because I know he leaves his injury later in this game. That is Dagger. The route that Palmer scores that touchdown on is almost never thrown to in Dagger because the intent of that route is to run off a DB or two down the seam and create a hole in the defense for the dig from the furthest outside receiver to run underneath it. What you're trying to do is create space and you have to have

time to throw that pass over the middle. They never throw the streak, the nine on dagger. They never do. But because of Ante Maddox comes down and chases the first crosser, who's already going to get picked up in coverage, by the way, it's wide open. And of course, it's Josh Palmer, the guy who scored the game winning touchdown last week. What a start for Josh Palmer. He has two catches this year. Not a downfield receiving guy. Two catches for 77 yards and the two biggest plays you could argue of each game. That was third and 11. You can try to blitz Josh Allen. He'll kill you. You can you can lay back in coverage like they did most of the night and they'll kill you that way too. You know, hopefully we get a closer primetime game for the next one. It'll be rammed.

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