Josh Allen knows what the goal is.
A Bills Super Bowl win that brings the Lombardi Trophy home to Buffalo.
A three-time Super Bowl champion and former NFL head coach has expressed his confidence that Allen can do just that. Not just once, but multiple times.
Jason Garrett, who backed up Troy Aikman on the Dallas Cowboys teams that beat Buffalo in Super Bowls XXVII and XXVIII, believes Allen is not only going to win a championship. He believes Allen is going to win more than one.
"Josh Allen will win a Super Bowl, and I believe he's gonna win multiple Super Bowls, and he's knocking on the door," said Garrett on The Dan Patrick Show.
Garrett was responding to Patrick, who had pushed back the way the national audience usually does. "I love Josh Allen,
but he's a regular season quarterback," said the host.
Garrett made reference to NFL history rather than on Allen's playoff results alone.
"I'd be careful of that," cautioned Garrett. "For years, they said John Elway is a regular season quarterback. But you and I both know that John Elway put that city of Denver on his shoulders and he carried them there."
Elway had the arm, the highlights, the losing-in-the-playoffs narrative, and a late-career payoff. The Hall of Fame quarterback lost three Super Bowls before turning 30 and did not win his first until he was 37 years old. Allen is 30 years old and entering his ninth season. He and the Bills are looking to get started winning hardware sooner.
And Elway wasn't the only all-time great quarterback and former Super Bowl winning Bronco mentioned.
Garrett went further. He compared Allen to the greatest quarterback-position player in NFL history Peyton Manning, the Hall of Famer who won the NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP) award a record five times during his career, and who won his first Super Bowl at the moment where Allen finds himself— nine seasons in, at age 30.
"Let's go back 20 years. You're doing the show and we're having the same conversation about Peyton Manning. God, he throws all these touchdown passes, but in the big games, New England knows how to shut him down," Garrett added. "That's a story that's been a story for a long time in a lot of different sports. How the guy can't break through, the guy can't break through, the guy can't break through, he's not good enough, and then he breaks through. The circumstances around him are better, and then he's able to do that."
Allen is statistically ahead of Manning through eight seasons, albeit with one MVP Award to his name.
In the November 16 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Allen accounted for six touchdowns to surpass Peyton Manning's record of 288 for the most career touchdowns by an NFL player age 30 or younger. Allen carries an 8-7 postseason record into his ninth season. Manning, meanwhile, went into his breakthrough 2006 postseason with a 3-6 record in his first six playoff appearances.
Manning won his first ring at 30. Allen turns 30 in May and is already entering Year 9. The window is open, and he's had some more playoff success at this age than his historical predecessor.
Now it remains to be seen if that will translate toward taking the next step and winning a championship.
The Buffalo Bills have built the 2026 season around the idea that Allen is close. The numbers, the comparisons, and the predictions all point in the right direction and suggest he's trending in it. The only thing left is to see what the result is.
Allen is knocking on the door. The 2026 season may be the one he finally opens it.
This article originally appeared on Bills Wire: Former NFL coach Jason Garrett: Bills' Josh Allen 'knocking on door'
