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Bills 36, Ravens 10 | Final Score, recap + highlights

Location: Highmark Stadium

Final score: Bills 36 Ravens 10

Records: Bills (6-1), Ravens (4-4)

Next opponent: Bills vs. Vikings Monday, Nov. 9 at 8:15 p.m. EST

The Buffalo Bills won their 12th straight game coming off a bye week on Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens, maintaining a lead from the first possession of the game through the final whistle. The 36-10 victory was more than double Buffalo's largest margin of victory on the season to this point. With the win, head coach Joe Brady became the first coach in team history to begin his coaching career with a 6-1 record.

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The Bills won the opening coin toss on Sunday, electing to receive as they have multiple times this year. A kickoff out-of-bounds penalty gave Buffalo the ball at its own 40-yard line, with a pair of chunk plays helping move the ball down the field in a hurry.

Coming off a play-action boot to his right, QB Josh Allen found a wide-open WR Khalil Shakir in the flat with tons of grass in front of him. Shakir turned on his afterburners, picking up 26 yards before he was brought down.

Shakir continued to dazzle on the opening drive, finding open space over the middle of the field one play later for 18 more yards through the air. Another play after that, the 26-year-old again caught a pass in the right flat, barreling into the end zone from six yards out before he was later called out of bounds at the one-yard line.

It took Allen two quarterback sneak attempts, but on his second he reached the ball over the plane, opening the day with a touchdown on the first drive of the game.

Up 7-0 early, the Bills offense got the ball right back after a Ravens three-and-out to start their day. Buffalo settled for a 56-yard field goal off the foot of K Tyler Bass, his 19th make in a row. That streak is good for the Bills franchise record, also holding the longest active run in the NFL.

Allen took hold of a record of his own in the fourth quarter, finding WR DJ Moore in the back of the end zone for an 11-yard touchdown pass. The touchdown pass was Allen's 259th of his career, surpassing Hall of Famer Jim Kelly for most pass touchdowns in Bills history.

In the win, Allen finished 21-of-34 passing with 289 yards through the air and two touchdowns. On the ground, he added 30 yards on seven attempts with his one score. Moore was efficient in his first game back after missing the last two weeks with a shoulder injury. He earned 82 yards on four catches, along with a touchdown.

TE Dalton Kincaid narrowly edged out Moore to lead the team in receiving on Sunday. He caught four of his six targets for 86 yards, including a 23-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter to put the game to rest.

Baltimore was hit badly by the injury bug on Sunday, with former MVP QB Lamar Jackson leaving the game with a thumb injury on the team's first play of offense. Backup QB Tyler Huntley entered in relief but also left the contest with a toe injury in the second quarter.

Huntley exited the game just 2-of-4 passing, with zero yards.

Undrafted rookie QB Joe Fagnano out of UConn came in as the team's emergency signal caller. Fagnano finished his first NFL game 10-for-21 passing with 91 yards through the air, an interception and a fumble.

The Bills defensive front was ravenous in getting after the quarterback all game long, picking up four sacks and 12 quarterback hits in the win. Eight different players tallied a QB hit for Buffalo, including the first career sacks for DL Landon Jackson and OLB TJ Parker (had 0.5 entering the game).

Buffalo's early defensive success continued into the second quarter, with a huge play on the first drive of the frame. Defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard brought the heat on a third-and-eight, with the pressure getting home.

S Cole Bishop flew into the backfield untouched on the blitz, crashing into Huntley's back and forcing a fumble in the process. The bouncing ball couldn't find a home for a moment, before ILB Kaleb Elarms-Orr pounced on it for the recovery at the Baltimore 20-yard line.

The Bills offense got the ball down to the one-yard line, but couldn't punch it in, settling for a 22-yard chip-shot field goal from Bass.

With time winding down under two minutes in the first half, Buffalo's defense again looked to get the ball back into the offense's hands. OLB Greg Rousseau set the tone with a sack on the opening play of the drive.

Three plays later, S Geno Stone jumped a pass but let it slip through his hands and off his helmet. CB Davison Igbinosun watched as the ball got launched up into no man's land, plucking it out of the November air for his first career interception.

With just over a minute left in the second quarter, a 14-yard Allen rush was enough to set Bass up for a 51-yard field goal before the end of the half. With the make, Bass continued his big day and became the first kicker in Bills history to make seven straight field goals of 50+ yards.

Buffalo hit the ground running in the second half offensively, led by a 49-yard bomb to Moore. Allen found Moore in single coverage with Ravens former All-Pro CB Marlon Humphrey, testing the matchup. Moore flew deep down the middle of the field on a post route, leaping up and high-pointing the ball in tight coverage for the third-longest passing play of the year for the Bills.

Just one play later, RB James Cook III took a handoff up the middle, bouncing it out to his right and galloping into the end zone for a five-yard touchdown run to extend the lead to 23-10. With Allen's rushing score on the first drive of the day, Sunday became the 16th regular-season game in which Cook and Allen each had a rushing touchdown, the most by any teammate duo in NFL history.

Cook tallied 80 rushing yards in the game on 21 carries (3.8 average), with two catches for 21 yards through the air.

After the Bills defense forced its second three-and-out of the game, Allen and the offense started their third drive of the day backed up at the 16-yard line. Allen's first play was a play-action pass, throwing to TE Jackson Hawes underneath. Hawes bobbled the pass up into the air, with Broderick Washington Jr. catching the floating ball for a Ravens interception.

Baltimore's offense got to work at the 17-yard line, picking up a first down for the first time of the game on the inaugural run of the drive to RB Derrick Henry. The next play also went to Henry, easily making his way in for a rushing touchdown from two yards out for the Ravens' first points of the contest, and only touchdown of the day.

Henry accounted for 53 rushing yards in the loss, with the bigger story coming at the wide receiver position. WR Zay Flowers came into the game second in the NFL in receiving yards per game, averaging 101.3, but was held without a catch on Sunday.

Up next for Buffalo is a Monday Night Football matchup with the no longer undefeated Minnesota Vikings. The Bills will hit the road on Monday, Nov. 9 at 8:15 p.m. EST, looking to stay hot.

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