Bills start Super Bowl pursuit off on strong note, blow out Rams

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The Buffalo Bills proved exactly why they are the favorites to win the Super Bowl in February.

Not only did they travel to Los Angeles and take down the defending Super Bowl champions - they utterly destroyed them, 31-10.

Entering Thursday night, Super Bowl champions were 19-3 since 2000 in Week 1, but the Bills clearly don't believe in trends - they do believe in covering the spread by a lot as they were 2.5-point favorites entering the matchup.

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Quarterback Josh Allen #17 of the Buffalo Bills throws a pass during the first quarter of the NFL game against the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium on September 08, 2022 in Inglewood, California. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

The Bills didn't trail for the entire game as Josh Allen - the favorite to win the MVP - connected with Gabriel Davis for a 26-yard touchdown early on.

Buffalo got up to a 10-0 lead in the second quarter, but Buffalo turned the ball over three times in the first half (two picks by Allen and a fumble by James Cook on his first NFL carry). With that, the Rams knotted things up with a Cooper Kupp touchdown that resembled the game-winner from Super Bowl LVI, and then Matt Gay blasted a 57-yard field goal at the end of the half. 

"First off, that first half, being careless with the football a little bit, putting our defense in bad situations," Allen said postgame. "But they bowed up for us, they gave us a chance. Going in with three turnovers at halftime and it being even, that was a huge boost for us. We knew that if we came out and tried to execute the way we know we can execute, we were gonna move the ball and score, and