most passing yards by a buffalo bill in one game before 1989

Before 1989, Joe Ferguson had the most passing yards for the Bills in a game, with 419 yards versus the Dolphins on October 9, 1983.

Interpreted as:

most passing yards by a buffalo bill in one regular-season game before 1989

	NAME	YDS	DATE	TM		OPP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Joe Ferguson J. Ferguson	419	10/9/1983	BUF	@	MIA	38	55	69.1	7.6	5	1	114.1	9.1	1.8	1	12
2	Jack Kemp J. Kemp	378	10/11/1964	BUF	@	HOU	14	26	53.8	14.5	3	3	97.9	11.5	11.5
3	Vince Ferragamo V. Ferragamo	377	9/8/1985	BUF	vs	SD	31	46	67.4	8.2	0	2	74.3	0.0	4.3	1	6
4	Joe Ferguson J. Ferguson	367	9/23/1979	BUF	vs	NYJ	19	30	63.3	12.2	5	0	145.4	16.7	0.0
5	Jim Kelly J. Kelly	359	10/25/1987	BUF	@	MIA	29	39	74.4	9.2	2	0	119.5	5.1	0.0	3	29
6	Bruce Mathison B. Mathison	357	12/8/1985	BUF	vs	NYJ	22	39	56.4	9.2	0	2	65.9	0.0	5.1	3	26
7	Dennis Shaw D. Shaw	353	9/19/1971	BUF	vs	DAL	18	30	60.0	11.8	4	3	101.1	13.3	10.0
8	Dennis Shaw D. Shaw	348	10/18/1970	BUF	vs	MIA	24	32	75.0	10.9	2	2	104.7	6.3	6.3
9	Jim Kelly J. Kelly	342	11/2/1986	BUF	@	TB	29	39	74.4	8.8	3	0	126.2	7.7	0.0	1	18
10	Joe Ferguson J. Ferguson	340	9/23/1984	BUF	vs	NYJ	31	46	67.4	7.4	2	0	103.5	4.3	0.0	3	30
11	Joe Ferguson J. Ferguson	339	10/28/1979	BUF	@	DET	17	35	48.6	9.7	1	2	68.6	2.9	5.7
12	Joe Ferguson J. Ferguson	338	10/12/1981	BUF	vs	MIA	20	29	69.0	11.7	3	0	142.6	10.3	0.0	0	0
13	Johnny Green J. Green	334	10/30/1960	BUF	vs	HOU	18	49	36.7	6.8	2	1	66.2	4.1	2.0
14	Joe Ferguson J. Ferguson	331	12/17/1977	BUF	@	MIA	25	40	62.5	8.3	1	3	65.7	2.5	7.5
15	Joe Ferguson J. Ferguson	330	9/16/1982	BUF	vs	MIN	25	45	55.6	7.3	3	1	91.9	6.7	2.2	2	13
16	Joe Ferguson J. Ferguson	317	9/30/1979	BUF	@	BAL	14	23	60.9	13.8	3	1	126.4	13.0	4.3
17	Dennis Shaw D. Shaw	317	10/4/1970	BUF	vs	NYJ	12	21	57.1	15.1	2	2	93.9	9.5	9.5
18	Jack Kemp J. Kemp	317	10/26/1963	BUF	vs	BOS	18	36	50.0	8.8	1	1	78.1	2.8	2.8
19	Joe Ferguson J. Ferguson	316	12/2/1979	BUF	vs	DEN	27	46	58.7	6.9	0	1	70.6	0.0	2.2
20	Jim Kelly J. Kelly	315	10/9/1988	BUF	vs	IND	21	39	53.8	8.1	3	1	95.6	7.7	2.6	0	0
21	Jim Kelly J. Kelly	315	12/6/1987	BUF	@	RAI	22	36	61.1	8.8	1	0	98.7	2.8	0.0	2	12
22	Jim Kelly J. Kelly	315	12/7/1986	BUF	vs	CLE	20	39	51.3	8.1	2	0	95.6	5.1	0.0	2	7
23	Jim Kelly J. Kelly	305	9/13/1987	BUF	vs	NYJ	25	42	59.5	7.3	3	1	95.8	7.1	2.4	2	13
24	Jim Kelly J. Kelly	302	10/17/1988	BUF	@	NYJ	16	27	59.3	11.2	3	1	119.7	11.1	3.7	1	10
25	Joe Ferguson J. Ferguson	301	11/9/1981	BUF	@	DAL	19	42	45.2	7.2	1	4	38.0	2.4	9.5	0	0

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