The Bills visit the Jets with a 7-1 record and a chance at their best start since 1991

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The Buffalo Bills are off to their best start in 33 years, Josh Allen and the high-scoring offense are clicking, and they're tied for the ...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills are off to their best start in 33 years, Josh Allen and the high-scoring offense are clicking, and they’re tied for the top record in the NFL.

In a season during which many things have gone right so far, the Bills know better than to overlook a struggling AFC East rival when they face the New York Jets on Sunday at MetLife Stadium.

“This is a division game on the road, it’s going to be as hard as it gets, right?” first-year coach Joe Brady said. “We showed that we can go on the road and win a hard game. We’ve got to go do it again.

Coming off a 23-6 victory at Minnesota on Monday night, Buffalo is 7-1 — tops in the AFC and tied for the NFL lead with San Francisco. It’s the first time since 1993 the Bills have opened a season 7-1 or better. A win over the Jets (2-7) — who they’ve beaten in their past five meetings — would give them their best start since 1991, when they began 10-1 on the way to a second straight Super Bowl appearance.

“We know we’re always going to get everybody’s best, as we should,” Brady said. “And we’re going to have to bring it to be able to come out with a win. We know it’s not going to be easy, but we wouldn’t want it any other way.”

The Bills lead the NFL in total yards and points per game, with their 256 points through eight games ranking as the third most by a team with a first-year head coach in the Super Bowl era, trailing only the Mike Martz-coached 2000 St. Louis Rams (330) and Sean McVay-coached 2017 Los Angeles Rams (263).

It would seem the ultimate mismatch for a team struggling as badly as the Jets, who have dropped four in a row, have a coach in Aaron Glenn sitting on a blazing hot seat and a slumping, underperforming defense.

But of New York’s seven losses, just two have been by more than one score, including its 35-12 defeat last Sunday at Kansas City. That has Glenn and the Jets hopeful they can stave off stretching the franchise’s postseason drought to 16 straight seasons.

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