Monday Night Football featured two of the least likely offenses in the NFL to run play action. Saints quarterback Drew Brees was basically last in play action last season among regular starters and Raiders quarterback Derek Carr wasn’t too far ahead of him. It’s early in 2020, but the returns so far seem to be the same for those teams on play action.
Not so the case for Josh Allen and the Bills.
In 2019, Allen ran play action 105 times in 16 games, tied for the 20th-most in the league with Mitchell Trubisky, who did so at a higher rate with the Bears because he played in one fewer game.