Bills-Texans looked like an AFC Championship preview in Week 1, and Buffalo was a step ahead

(Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images) | Getty Images The game was billed as a potential AFC Championship Game preview. Given how it played out, sign us up for a rematch sometime in January. The Houston Texans hosted the Buffalo Bills in the early slate of the first full Sunday of the 2026 NFL season, and these two playoff hopefuls threw haymaker after haymaker in an instant classic, won by the Bills by a final score of 36-31 But the score alone does not do this game justice. The teams combined fo

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