Is this the year?
That's certainly what Bills fans want to believe. It's what Josh Allen wants to believe. It's what the entirety of western New York wants to believe.
A Super Bowl victory, a Lombardi trophy coming back to Buffalo? It wouldn't get better than that.
In the season's final episode of Hard Knocks, Allen was asked by NFL Media's Kyle Brandt if he has ever pictured his Super Bowl-winning speech.
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Allen confirmed he has, then quickly painted a beautiful picture of a parade in Buffalo.
"I can see the parade, I can feel it," Allen said. "Five degrees, brisk, rolling down, hearing the bus roll over all the salt and the ice. Thousands upon thousands of fans filling up downtown Buffalo. I can see where we're going up on the steps at city hall. I see it all. Gotta make it turn into reality."
Now that's a vision.
Throw in some snow falling and it couldn't be any more picture perfect.
Fans in other parts of the country might not appreciate Buffalo. It's a hard-nosed, rust belt city. It's not glamorous or as big a market as many of the others in the NFL.
But there aren't any other fans like Bills Mafia.
And there aren't any other quarterbacks like Allen.
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He's made for this city, this fanbase, this team. He's a fun-loving, hard-working, physically imposing QB, and he was just the NFL's Most Valuable Player.
He came to Buffalo from Wyoming. Allen's football journey wouldn't have even made it there if Eric Dungey hadn't chosen to forgo his spot at Wyoming to instead go to Syracuse, leaving the QB scholarship open for Allen.
There hasn't been shine on this trip. It's been grit and mud and snow and challenges all along the way.
And now Allen is the most talented player this franchise has ever seen, capable of doing anything on a football field. He even caught a touchdown on a lateral last season that only he would've been so bold as to pursue, and of course it was in the snow when he did that against the 49ers.
Nobody does that, except for number 17.
This is the QB meant to bring Buffalo a Super Bowl. And he's got the vision.
Like he said: Time to make it a reality.
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