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The A.F.C. East Is Still Josh Allen’s Division

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Jordan Palmer envisioned months ago a version of the scene that greeted Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen late Sunday afternoon. The most critical moment of the most critical drive of the most critical game of the Bills’ season, and whether they would win or lose — whether they would cede the division title back to New England — depended on how Allen, his pupil, handled it.

“Everything in his world,” Palmer said in early September, “is going to come down to that.”

The final score at Gillette Stadium — Buffalo 33, New England 21 — offered a quantifiable affirmation.