Post-game fact make Bills' loss to Chiefs look even worse
The Buffalo Bills did almost everything right on Sunday evening against the Kansas City Chiefs. And they still came up short against Patrick Mahomes and company. Specifically, the Bills held the ball for 37:03 of the game. And according to Pro Football Reference, since 1970, teams that held the ball for that long in a […]
The Buffalo Bills did almost everything right on Sunday evening against the Kansas City Chiefs.
And they still came up short against Patrick Mahomes and company.
Specifically, the Bills held the ball for 37:03 of the game. And according to Pro Football Reference, since 1970, teams that held the ball for that long in a playoff game were 54-6.
Buffalo's game plan seemed to be to hold the ball via sustained drives, which meant limited shots downfield. And that plan essentially worked.
But the Bills weren't perfect against the Chiefs. They were close. And they even got a huge break via a Chiefs fumble that went through the end zone (which resulted in a turnover). But they left too many points on the field in the fourth quarter.
Buffalo had three drives in the fourth quarter and they didn't score on any of those drives. For most of the game, they executed their game plan perfectly. But in the final quarter, where games are won and lost, the Bills bailed the Chiefs out and essentially gave the game away.
It's obvious that Buffalo is right there with Kansas City. But the Bills haven't learned yet how to "close" a game against Kansas City in the playoffs. At this point, it's starting to feel like they'll never figure it out. This was one of the "worst" Chiefs teams of the Mahomes era and the Bills let them off the hook.
This one is going to hurt for a long time. And it'll be up to Josh Allen, the leader of the team, to make sure that this loss doesn't linger into 2024.
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