Mitchell Trubisky completed 22 of 29 passes for 259 yards and four touchdowns and Ray Davis rushed for 151 yards on 21 carries to help the Buffalo Bills defeat the New York Jets 35-8 Sunday in the final regular season game played at 53-year-old Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y.
Buffalo (12-5), which will move into a new facility next season, will open the AFC playoffs on the road as the No. 6 seed against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Josh Allen, who has a sore right foot, extended his streak of games started to 135, but jogged off the field after handing off to James Cook on Buffalo’s first play from scrimmage.
Trubisky tossed a 17-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dawson Knox with 8:17 left in the first quarter and threw a 2-yard TD pass to Davis with 4:58 left in the second. Buffalo’s other first-half TD came when running back Ty Johnson took a direct snap and scored from 6 yards out with 11:43 remaining in the half. It was 21-0 at halftime.
Trubisky hooked up with Gabe Davis for a 2-yard scoring pass with 7:46 left in the third, and his completion to Keon Coleman for the two-point conversion pushed the lead to 29-0. Trubisky capped Buffalo’s scoring on a 6-yard TD pass to Johnson with 12:05 to play.
Buffalo place-kicker Matt Prater aggravated a right quad injury and left the game in the third quarter.
Rookie quarterback Brady Cook made his fourth straight start for the Jets (3-14) and was 11 of 22 for 60 yards. He threw a 2-yard TD pass to Andrew Beck with 7:33 left and then completed a pass to Quentin Skinner for the two-point conversion.
Buffalo had a 470-122 edge in net yards.
New York running back Breece Hall did not play due to a knee injury. Hall finished the season with 1,065 yards rushing and averaged 4.4 yards per carry.
The Jets, who haven’t made the playoffs since 2010, became the first NFL team to finish a season without recording a defensive interception.
–Field Level Media
