ORCHARD PARK — All’s settled for the Buffalo Bills, except who they’re playing here in two weeks.

With a 33-0 lead over the Jets, Buffalo’s unofficial victory cigar came out in the form of Mitchell Trubisky with a quarter left in Sunday’s game. The game’s outcome had long been decided, but with that substitution, the Bills could rest as the AFC’s No. 2 seed, and Josh Allen could likely rest his 2024 regular season and MVP case.

Allen wasn’t the only quarterback who watched the fourth quarter from the sideline, either. Buffalo shut out Aaron Rodgers’ offense — denying his 500th career passing touchdown — as he exited with a 40-0 deficit before former Bill Tyrod Taylor engineered two touchdowns to make it a 40-14 final score.

In what may be one of the last games of Rodgers’ Hall of Fame career, the Bills made it a miserable one for the 41-year-old. If Allen is at the top of his game — still the favorite in a seemingly tightening MVP race — his counterpart was far from it, with a passer rating of 39.6.

The Buffalo defense took a bend-but-don’t-break approach until the Jets’ offense was the one broken. The Jets’ first two drives ended deep in Buffalo territory: a turnover on downs at the Bills’ 24, then a Rodgers interception from the 12. Defensive end Greg Rousseau deflected Rodgers’ pass up and into the ready arms of defensive tackle Jordan Poyer.

They turned over the Jets three times: Phillips and Christian Benford’s picks on Rodgers, and Ed Oliver’s forced fumble on receiver Garrett Wilson, recovered by Matt Milano. But with a safety and a fourth-down stop, that turnover number, in effect, was five.

“Takeaways (are) always a big key to the game,” Benford said in the locker room. “Handing the ball back to the offense, getting good field position for our offense, getting points on the board.

“Having all those takeaways, all those sacks, all those three-and-outs, it was a key.”

They sacked Rodgers four times and were credited for seven quarterback hits. Rousseau and DaQuan Jones’ combined sack made Rodgers the most-sacked QB in NFL history since they became an official NFL stat in 1982, passing Tom Brady.

AJ Epenesa’s sack even put points on the board in the second quarter. Epenesa breezed past the left tackle in the end zone and blew up Rodgers on his blind side. In the locker room after, Epenesa could not remember the last time he earned a safety; maybe in high school in Edwardsville, Illinois, he thought.

“It’s amazing,” Epenesa said. “It’s just a little cherry on top that it was Aaron Rodgers, someone of his caliber. He’s so prolific, he’s done so many things. Any young rusher wants to get the big ones and stuff like that feels great.”

Of his pick, Benford described thinking he could keep up with receiver Allen Lazard, but giving just enough space to try to tempt Rodgers to make a throw.

“I wanted to show Aaron like ‘it’s right there, throw it,’ and once I (saw) him crank back, then I kind of hit my other gear to get up under,” Benford said.

Usually defenders are the ones getting flagged for sideline contact with quarterbacks, but after a 24-yard return to the sideline, Rodgers gave Benford a shove out of bounds for a 15-yard penalty.

“It is what it is,” Benford said. “I was tired, so I got out of bounds.”

For a defense that struggled in back-to-back shootouts with the Rams and Lions this month, and needed some turnovers to swing a slow start against the Patriots last week, this was a thorough performance, enhanced by those takeaways.

The Bills lead NFL defenses in turnovers with 23, eight more than the second-best (Pittsburgh’s 15).

“Players played extremely fast, physical and when you play physical and you play fast, the ball tends to come out and to find you,” coach Sean McDermott told reporters in the Bills’ media room.

Epenesa called the turnovers “momentum building,” and not just for the defense.

“Fourth-down stops, those are great,” he said. “But the punt, all that stuff, it’s … I don’t want to say monotonous, but it’s a little slow sometimes. When you go out there strip sack, safety, interceptions, tipped-ball interceptions, those are juice plays, those are splash plays. Those bring energy to the whole team, not just our defense. Our offense sees that, they get excited, they run on the field and they carry that momentum with them, you know what I mean? Those are the different impacts that those plays can have on us.”