“I made some bad decisions tonight, and it cost our team,” Allen said. “A lot to learn from, a lot to grow from. That’s not the standard we hold ourselves to. That’s not the ball we play.”

The Jets’ defense pressured Allen throughout Sunday, but in the first half he used his legs to put the Bills ahead. He scored two rushing touchdowns, on a quarterback sneak and a 36-yard designed run, to put Buffalo up by 14-3. Allen’s second touchdown, which came midway through the second quarter, was the last time the Bills found the end zone.

Diggs caught five passes for 93 yards in the first half, but said the Jets changed their pass coverage after halftime, shifting from man-to-man coverage to Cover 2 zone defense. He didn’t have any catches in the second half. But the Bills’ mistakes also doomed the team the rest of the way.

There was an unusual 10-minute stoppage midway through the third quarter to take down the overhead TV camera suspended above the field after one of the cords holding it in place snapped. The delay came during a sustained Jets march, and after play resumed Wilson lost a fumble on a sack by Von Miller.

But just two plays later, the Bills gave the ball back to the Jets when Allen threw a second interception, this one to Gardner, in a mistake Allen said he could only explain as a “brain fart.”

On his way to the bench after the play, Allen slammed his helmet into the kicking net in apparent frustration. The Jets scored a touchdown off that turnover in Bills territory, taking their first lead of the game, 17-14.

In the fourth quarter, with the game tied at 17 after a Bills field goal, the Jets marched almost the entire length of the field, starting at their own 4-yard line and coming into position for a 28-yard field goal. Ten of the drive’s 13 plays were runs, taking advantage of a Bills defense that was missing linebacker Matt Milano and both starting safeties.