There are athletes who carry the weight of a single loss across an entire offseason, and Josh Allen was one of them — until Sunday in Houston. In a season opener that felt more like a reckoning, the Buffalo Bills quarterback threw and ran for all four of his team's touchdowns, dismantling the NFL's top-ranked pass defense in a 36-31 victory that quietly closed a painful chapter. Under a new head coach and with something to prove, Allen offered the league a reminder that defining moments need not be permanent ones.