Why 2025 is Bills' best chance yet to win a Super Bowl

Josh Allen is in year eight as the starting quarterback of the Buffalo Bills, and after plenty of seasons ending in heartbreak from falling short in the playoffs, this time around could be his best chance at finally capturing that elusive Lombardi Trophy.

Not only is Allen at the peak of his powers, playing at potentially the highest level he has ever been, but the AFC has never been this wide open at any point in his career. 

He and the Bills (9-4) have consistently run into the machine that is Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs (6-7), who have crushed their Super Bowl dreams in four of the last five seasons, with Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals (4-9) having been the other team to get the best of Buffalo.

Almost all of those losses have been no fault of Allen’s, who has actually elevated his play come the postseason (25 passing touchdowns, four interceptions, 101.7 QBR, 668 rushing yards and seven rushing touchdowns), leading to that much more frustration that they continuously haven’t been able to get over the hump.

While the 2024 MVP should by no means be afraid to take on Mahomes and the Chiefs or Burrow and the Bengals again in January, he likely won’t have to thanks to their regular-season woes, which creates a clear path for a trip to San Francisco to play in Super Bowl LX on February 8.

Sure, you could say formidable opponents in Drake Maye and the New England Patriots or Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos still stand in their way, but it ultimately comes down to the quarterback and best player on the team at the most important time of the year, and no signal-caller in the AFC comes close to matching what Buffalo has in Allen.

The Bills may not get a better opportunity than this to win the first Super Bowl in franchise history, and with the MVP running the show, there’s no reason to think they won’t do it.

Josh Allen might not win the award, but he’s the MVP

Los Angeles Rams star quarterback Matthew Stafford might have a leg up just based on pure stats, but football fans all know that Allen is the true MVP of the league.

Nobody can match Stafford’s ridiculous ratio of 35 passing touchdowns to just four interceptions, though what Allen is doing with much lesser weapons and a middling defense is more impressive.

His combination of arm talent (3,083 passing yards, 22 passing touchdowns) and rushing ability (487 rushing yards, 12 touchdowns) at 6-foot-5, 237 pounds is almost unlike anything we've seen in the NFL, and it's been on full display in 2025.

Maye, who has the second-shortest odds to win the MVP award at +200 per DraftKings, behind only Stafford at -180, even admits that his division rival is the true MVP, despite his +1500 odds.