The Bills are starting the playoffs with a road game in the Wild Card round for the first time since 2019.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — It’s a new season now at One Bills Drive: the postseason.

‘Every single drive matters in the playoffs, especially when you’re going against good teams and good quarterbacks like we’re going against this week,” said Bills quarterback Josh Allen.

The Bills, no strangers to the playoffs, are in this position now for a seventh straight year.

“One, this doesn’t happen everywhere,” Bills fullback Reggie Gilliam said. “It’s really hard to make the playoffs and a lot of guys, veterans included, haven’t even made the playoffs before. So we want to tell the rookies and let them know how big of a deal it is.”

However, for the first time since the 2019 season, their playoff journey starting on the road with a trip to Jacksonville.

“Typically more hyped crowds. You have to be very good on snap timing,” Allen said. “It allows defenses to hide their hand a little better. When they see a leg go up, they can move it while we can’t change. We’re going to have to be very good at pre-snap and post-snap reads and getting through them and run game, pass game, you name it. We’ve just got to make sure that we’re executing our details.”

While Sunday against the Jags will be the first playoff taste for the rookies on this team, the Bills as a whole are the most playoff tested team in the AFC. The veterans on this team say the key to success is not changing things up, instead continuing the process that brought them here in the first place.

“All the work that we put in starting in April leads us to this moment,” Bills tight end Dawson Knox said. “The countless hours and days of preparation, the hard practices, camp, the whole regular season, all of it gets you ready, puts in that preparation. To go do what we need to do this week.”

A trip to Jacksonville is the first step in a postseason the Bills hope ends next month in Santa Clara, Calif.

“It may seem a lot different, playoff football, but the way that we pride ourselves in our standard and making sure that we are playoff caliber throughout the season, we’re not practicing any longer this week,” Allen said.

“We’re not doing anything extra in terms of preparation. We feel like throughout the year this is how we prepare. This is how we try to win football games, and I think the process is the process and the standard that we have is the standard. So, you know, we’re not trying to change a whole lot, just the mindset of going in there, being ready to play.”