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This could be made so much simpler if in the playoffs, you just eliminate the coin toss and home gets ball/choice. Sudden death. Make the regular season matter. Super bowl would need to be a little different because of the home team thing...just make that first team to score 6 points (one TD or 2FG) wins the game after a coin toss to decide who gets ball.

....Beane has been a very good GM.... Beane drafted ALLEN. I also don't think you all appreciate enough, how bad the roster was when he took over. The entire O line from Allens rookie year was OUT OF FOOTBALL within a year of Beane arriving. Most of the rest of the offense was too with very few exceptions. He had to churn the hell out of the roster AND develop a very raw QB at the same time. no small feat. I read the posts around here. Beane makes mistakes on draft day. ALL GMs do. he's had some great picks too. He's made some good trades. You can do alot worse...and you guys should know how bad it COULD be better than anyone. That doesn't mean Beane isn't deserving of criticism nor does it mean he shouldn't be questioned for not winning a SB thus far with the QB he has..that's all valid, but damn..to read some of the posts around here you'd think the guy was Dave Gettleman! Veach has had his share of errors. Veach's 1st draft as "the man" was a disaster. Treaded up for Breeland Speaks who was a complete bust. Only Derrick Nhadi in round 3 has had any impact at all and he is JAG at best and mostly below average. Veach gave MLB Anthony Hitchins a RIDICULOUS contract...he was terrible. The contract was so bad KC couldn't cut him. Overpaid for Sammy Watkins...who at least had some decent post season games but a huge overpay. You could certainly make the case that KC signing Jawan Taylor for top OL money was a mistake/overpay. I won't try too hard to fight that one...he's not bad when he's not getting called for false starts..but that happens way too much and he has a rep so gets plenty of holding calls too! Veach has learned from his mistakes and he's hit on key players in the past few drafts and made trades essential to KC sustaining success. Perhaps the least talked about, but most important accomplishment was after KC lost the 2020 Super Bowl where they lost both starting OT to more or less career ending injuries, had the worst starting center in the leauge and JAG at OG at best....he completely rebuilt the O LINE in an offeseason by trading for Orlando Brown (who was pretty good but not a great pass blocker) drafting Creed Humphrey and Smith who both started as rookies and played well..and signed ALL PRO LG Thuney. They played Wylie at RT...and he wasn't great, but he was competent enough to make that work. That was a miracle. And while Veach hasn't hit on O side skill players well.... Clyde Edwards Hellaire...BUTS. Sky Moore. BUST... Mecole Hardman has done quite well considering where he was drafted....he gets crapped on because KC passed on DK Metcalf. And KC hit on Rice this year...and Pacheco in round 7 last year. Veach nails DB's. KC has a type they look for and Veach finds them in every round. I think though, it should be said that Veach understands what the coaches want and he finds guys they can use. Veach therefore get a TON of help by having hte same coaching staff in place year after year...he gets their type and the coaches develop the players....makes Veach success rate look even better. EVEN after all this....it's still a QB leauge. You really gotta have one. Without Mahomes...all the above isn't near good enough.

Maybe I misunderstood the post about KC winning 13 games in a row with a negative turnover ratio...but if that is what the poster said and intended...that is wrong. KC wins a nuber of games with negative ratios (so do the Bills) but being on the wrong side of TO ratio is hard and even great teams lose more than win whenever the TO ratio isn't in their favor. Bad teams can NOT overcome it all. The broncos for example..haven't won a negative TO ratio game in nearly 2 years.

The Bills are already 4th best odds to win SB next year. I think when you are close and you havn't made it yet, there is a tendency to overanalyze everything. You have Josh Allen and a talented roster. I'd compare the current Bills team VS the Chiefs similar to the 70's Steelers and Raiders. The Raiders were close...and the imaculate reception got them ...kind of similar to 13 seconds. Finally the Raiders broke through in the middle of Pittsburgs run whe the Steelers made it to the AFCCG with both their 1 and 2 RB's injured and unable to play. The Raiders won and went on to win the super bowl. The Steelers would go on to win 2 more in that decade and then Raiders would win a couple in the early 80's. I don't think every little thing about what the Raiders were doing needed to come into question and be nit picked to death. They were on the right track to building a team capable of winning a title, but so were the Steelers. Winning titles is hard and often you have to play against and overcome another really good team......even as your roster is good, your team is good, your coaching is good. I think the Bills are right there, they just simply haven't gotten over the hump...no amount of analysis etc is going to solve a problem you really don't have. When the time comes around again, the Bills will have to beat some good teams to win a title, even as the Bills ARE a good team that other teams have to overcome to win.

I stand by it! .....but I'll concede that some angles look better than others.

3 peat never been done...perhaps the Bills hoist the Lombardi next year. If they do I'll be rooting for the Bills and Josh Allen all the way. Also...I am not a poster at Chiefs planet...that place is awful. It's mostly Chiefs"fans" who are the worst of the bunch...they sort that fit the stereotype....and the type you don't find many of at the games because they can't afford the tickets. I hope your impression of Chiefs fans isn't just based on Chiefs planet. Thanks for the congrats. Hope to see you guys again next post season. Allen is going to get one someday....too good not to.

Some thoughts that you guys didn't ask for, but here they are anyway. 1. I've never heard a Taylor Swift song. I don't know much about her except that she has a bazillion fans and a bunch of them have jumped on the Chiefs bandwagon. If you think this won't be the most watched super bowl in history then you know even less than I do about what an absolute draw Taylor Swift is. 2. Once teams start to enter the dynasty discussion, they become hated. It's not new. Alot of posts here about hating on the Patriots. ME TOO. I got sick of that in short order. I understand the overkill overhype overexposure the Chiefs are getting. I don't blame people who are fatigued by it. I will say, it's really cool being on this side of it. 3. Obviously I am a biased homer, but I think KC wins this 31-17. The 49ers have been VERY SHAKY in eeking out playoff wins that that the other teams could have taken. Brock Purdy hasn't played well but he's been good in moments....but those moments have only come to even exist becasue Detroit and Green Bay let oppertunities literally bounce off helmets and/or slip through their hands. ...and those teams aren't good defensively. Purdy has been AWFUL when he's had to play stout D's. Baltimore shredded them. Cleveland gave Purdy fits. San Fran likes to run a bunch of motion. KC just counters that by switching up their look right after the oppsoing team motions. For those watching...pay attention to the niners pre snap motion, then once they've move, watch KC change their front/alignment etc. Also, the niners D has NOT been good...the 2019 version KC beat was far superior to his one. The 49ers kicker isn't good and isn't equal to this task. He'll miss a kick. 4. I am leaning FULL ON into this swifty consipiracy theory (sort of) I got a three leg parlay that has Kelce OVER 1.5 TD. Purdy OVER 1.5 INTS and Jerrick McKinnon anytime TD. 100 pays 25k. ....McKinnon HAD BEEN a long shot to play due to core surgery he had on Jan 2nd. He's been activated and I cna't imagine him not playing at this piont since they've taken the step to make him active. He took a knee at the 1 last year when he could have scored a TD in the super bowl. He's 32, and this might be his last game ever...they'll try and get him in the endzone. 5. We are having hot links and chilli dogs.

Unform nerdery is a hobbie of mine. Made these a while back.

Couple things. 1. Britt Ried is currently in prison for the accident that disabled the girl. His money, fame, and celebrity did not keep him from jail. If anyone is wondering, the Chiefs, maybe out of sincere concern for the childs well being, or maybe out of concern for their image....or probably both....are paying for all that childs care, and best I can understand, alot of pain and suffering cash to the family for the rest of the childs life. 2. Perhaps Pat is so calm on a football field and able to navigate adversity in football because it's easier and and escape from his family life. He has a somewhat fruity mom who is a religious MAGA type, a genderfluid douceh canoe brother riding his coat tails. A wife who can be annoying and controversial at times, and alcoholic dad, and now a bunch of swifties He probably can't wait to get to practice and games to get away from his chaotic family life. Probalby not many here familiar with the old adlut swim series "Moral Oral" but this reminds me of the final episode where it shows Moral as an adult and he's turned out to be a well adjusted adult despite all the flawed people who he grew up around. Seems like Mahomes has navigated all this and come out on the other side as a well adjusted, focused, person, able to handle alot of less than optimal goings on around him.

From a KC fan point of view, 13 Seconds has to be the worse loss. - The Bills had no stigma surounding any postseason failures, no monkeys on anyones back yet. They were operating at peak Josh Allen power...a passing and running force, again...not reigned in or governed down. Full throttle. - The Bengals beat the Chiefs the following week but that Bengals team wouldn't have beaten the Bills in an AFCCG in Buffalo that year. KC was up big at the half in that AFCCG and it took Mahomes worst half of football to get that game to OT. Bills would win that game 8/10 times if it were played. - The Rams were one dimensional passing team, and a two star defense (Ramsey and Donald) that could be had be elite teams. I have no doubt that would have been a Bills SB win that year. You could argue that the Niners this year, aren't a particularly great Super Bowl team and that the Bills would have a great shot if they were in it. I wouldn't try and argue otherwise, but I would argue that the Bills AT Ravens would be a difficult game for this years Bills. With the monkey on the back, with the stigma of being a road playoff game, and the Ravens probably being a really tough matchup for the Bills (as they were for everyone this year) If the Bills had gotten past KC, I think the Ravens would have had an easy time with the Bills depleted Bills LB corp. Totally different set up than hosting Cincy in 2021 would have been. The Chiefs were only ONE Mahomes Lombardi in to that point. They'd only been to 3 AFC title games, 2 SB and had only come away with 1 SB title to that point. They weren't ....for lack of a better word...."inevitable" yet. How much different would the landscape be if the Bills had won the "13 seconds" game and went on to win a SB? TOTALLY different. For the near term....all the noise is going to be....can the Bills get to one? Can they win a road playoff game? It could have been......who will have more? Allen or Mahomes? 13 Seconds is worse because that game now compounds any failures that happen since then.

I think the Bills should change coaches...but forgetting that for a minute....the Bills have put together 2 back to back really good draft classes, and even though they have some cap issues to work through this offseason, there is young talent in place. If the Bills can put together another good class, then the window remains wide open. Josh still has plenty of time, but with the cap hits now being big...the draft becomes more important. No reason to think Beane can't get another good class this year. Should be another good WR class. Bills also looking to be in good position to win the east again next year...Miami suffering from CAP issues AND their QB can't lift the play of others around him....he has to have elite WR's, brilliant playcalling etc to have a shot. Good teams are able to stop them. I think they take a step back. The Pats will suck again. And I don't think 41 year old Rodgers has enough left in the tank to make the Jets anything better than a fringe playoff team. The Bills will be right back knocking on the door again next year.

AGREE AGREE! I was hoping the Bills would miss the playoffs completely. BY FAR, they are the toughest out for the Chiefs. It's not close. As a Chiefs fan, the idea the Ravens didn't run enough is annoying. KC was stacking the box and playing a TON of man. They were all in on stopping the run and inviting the Ravens to throw. It was intentional on Spags part and a big reason why they didn't run more. KC has had a top 3 defense all year and all anyone could see was KC's offense struggling to get anything going consistantly all year. The Bills performed well against our D, as KC was trying to force everything short and wait for Josh to get impatient. He performed very well up to the last drive when he seemed to finally want to take some shots....Even in earlier points in the game untimely drops ruined some DIMES. Again....Allen shows up in these games, it's not like he's going 15/28 for 175 and 2 INTS in these things. He's doing all he can at a high level. You have to overcome mistakes sometimes. KC overcame virtually the same mistake VS the Bills. Jacksons throw into tripple coverage was AWFUL. There is some audio of Jackson lamenting how things were going in the game. Really made me think he lacks toughness and leadership skills when things are tough and not quite going his way. Allen doesn't fold like this. Lamar can be stopped with a good defense with the right game plan to bottle him up and make them throw downfield. Allen isn't one dimensional. He's the better player by far.

I thought Allen would be a bust and I wanted the Broncos to draft him badly. thankfully I didn't get my wish. @transplantbillsfan never wavered from his relentless support for Allen and his constant defending of Allen, and his endless posts of data points about Allen growing and developing.

This narrative about Sean being at fault for trading down is wrong. Some Bills fans don't remember or never did know apparently, the circumstances heading into that draft. Pegula hired Sean one Month or so before that draft. He did not fire Doug Whaley the GM, but everyone knew he would be let go after the draft and new GM would be brought in. McDermott is a defense side of the ball coach. Not a QB whisperer or evaluator. He was not going to pick a QB in that draft based off of an outgoing GMs scouting reports and without the input of whoever the new GM would be. He wasn't qualified to make that evaluation on his own and decided to trade out of the pick, wait for a new GM and they could all get on the same page about a QB in 2018....with a whole year together to scout and evaluate and then make a pick. McDermott did the prudent thing and made a trade for some extra ammo that a team needing to churn the roster etc...would need. McDermott (and later Beane) came out of that as well as you possibly could under the circumstances. They got a pro bowl Corner in Tre White and ended up with Allen the next year. You can not make that trade, where Mahomes turns out to be awesome, but still come out of it any better than the Bills did. At any rate...IF there is blame for this, it falls on Terry and Kim for handling the 2017 offseason in a wierd way, hiring a coach late, then keeping the GM onboard for the draft only. McDermott did as well as he could. The Bengals are the team that should be completely lambasted for choosing John Ross at 9...one pick before Mahomes. The Bears...rightfully get some crap about taking Trubisky instead of Mahomes......and the 49ers...since they've done well...also should get pummeld but don't....they needed a QB that year and misevaluated....they took Solomon Thomas. The Browns were all set to take Mahomes at 12 if he fell that far. They had 1/1 that year and also 12 overall. They used 1/1 on Myles Garret. Great player. He isn't a QB. Great DE's don't win titles.

to the tune of Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald The legend lives on from the Iriquois on down of the big lake they call Erielhonan The lake it is said never gives up her dead When playoffs come with intense emotion With records better than most, the lakes teams could boast That they had strong chances in the post season WIth good rosters on hand, and good game plans They'd always come up short for some reason The Lions usually die before you'd eat your pumpkin pie While watching them play on Thanksgiving When Barry played, they thought they had it made But the regular seasons proved so unforgiving When Campbell came round, they thought they found A winner who'd bite off your kneecap But after winning the first two, everyone knew In San Francisco it was just the same crap The Browns couldn't survive when Elway had "The Drive" And later they'd suffer "the Fumble" Shoetenhiemer moved on but the curse wasn't gone As the Browns would continue to stumble The team moved away but the troubles would stay As the team would become the Ravens The Ravens would win as Cleveland got a team again They're still missing the success they've been craving The Bills got in, four straight times and couldn't win Twice Dallas, the skins, then the kicker Then Allen came, and they thought things would change Because he was bigger, and stronger, and quicker While better than most, and even if they were the host They'd be finished early each season Mahomes and Burrow they'd fight, another kick went wide right Leaving the Mafia searching for reasons

No.... this is an example of how sometimes you need some dumb luck. Things could be totally different if KC was able to do what they wanted in the 2016 draft. The Chiefs get all sorts of credit for trading up and drafting Mahomes. I'm actually knocking on KC here because it was something of a happy accident that they were in a spot to get him. In 2016, they wanted Paxton Lynch. They had pick 28 and Seattle had pick 26. The Cheifs, Cowboys and Broncos all wanted Lynch and Seattle was selling their pick. KC ONLY would have needed to move up TWO WHOLE SPOTS to make this happen. But they had tampered with Jeremy Maclin and usualy the leauge doens't care, but for some reason Goodell came in 2 days before that draft and stipped KC of their 3rd round pick that year. So when it came time to make a bid to move up from 28 to 26, KC couldn't beat Denvers offer. Denver was moving up from 31, but they had their 3rd round pick and KC didn't KC had a 4th. Dallas had a 1st and a 4th also. Denvers combo of picks was the best offer. IF KC had their 3rd rounder THEY would have been the team that got stuck drafting MASSIVE DRAFT BUST Paxton Lynch. They also wouldn't have been in the market for a QB in 2017. And then as if someone showered KC with LUCKY CHARMS....since they couldn't move up to 26 in the 2016 Draft, they moved out of the first round altogther and after a few more D tackles were taken, KC got the consolation prize of Chris Jones......and they used the other pick they got for trading out on OG Parker Eigner who they flipped to the Cowboys for Charvarius Ward. Goodell saved KC from themselves! We got a cascade of franchise changing good luck by having that 3rd rounder taken from us. The plan was Paxton Lynch. If left in control of their own fate, KC wouldn't be where they are now.

Not that alot of Bills fans would care, but it's really amazing how KC getting punished for tampering with Jeremy Maclin in the 2016 offseason, led directly them ending up with Chris Jones and Pat Mahomes. If Goodell dindn't strip KC of their third round pick in 2016, 2 days before that draft, KC would have ended up with Paxton Lynch. If you are interested in that story, I wrote an episode for Brandon Perna (a Broncos youtuber) a couple years ago about this. You can see it here.

Unless he signs for some miraculously cheap deal, they will let him walk. It's been a good run.

Having seen the games...the Bills are a tough tough out for the Chiefs. I'd like to think if the Josh Allen era weren't happening parrallel to the Mahomes era, we'd all be talking about a Bills dynasty right now.

After KC lost that game, I wished we'd just lost to the Bills. You'd have had your Lombardi.

I've had a chance to rewatch and think about the game. 2 BIG things that I think as reasons why the Bills lost this game. and a significant, but important 3rd thing. 1. You have Josh Allen. Joe Brady nuetered him. 16 passes completed behind the LOS. No plays over 20 yards. The Bills O was NOT EXPLOSIVE. It wasn't just this game. Joe Brady shifted the Bills to a running team and turned Josh into a game manager. You have JOSH FREAKING ALLEN! Not Jimmy G! Does Josh have alot of the Brett Favre hazards to his game? HELL YES HE DOES! That's the cost of doing business when you have a guy who can sling it. You sling it and sometimes when you put the ball in jeopardy it aint gonna land where you want it to, but the big plays, the fear, the explosions....that's what you want and they nuetered him. I know as a Chiefs fan, KC can frustrate a QB And bottle up some targets. Doesn't matter. you should be agreessive when you have Allen at QB. Go rewatchthe Chargers game if you don't believe me. By the time the Bills played them, that was a team that had quit on it's coach, it's season was over, their D had been gashed all year and Joe Brady nearly lost you guys that game singlehandedly with the playcalling. You have Josh Allen....LEAN INTO IT...not away form it. 2. Maybe it's just that when you run into good QB's it's hard to play championship caliber D, but McDermotts defenses in playoff games VS Burrow and Mahomes, have been BAD. I don't claim to know why....I just know they are. Even the 13 seconds game, if KC doesn't miss a FG and XP, we never get to 13 seconds to begin with if you look back on it...and KC was moving it up and down the field...like they have in every playoff game they've been in. Even Skylar Thompson had himself a day against the Bills playoff D. Phillip Rivers should have come out of the playoff game he had against the Bills with a W...they were able to move the ball. Something is lacking with the Bills D when post season arrives. The common denominator is McDermott. 3. The Bills will have a fighters chance every postseason because of Allen....but I think the current coaching staff has taken him as far as THEY can. McDermott is a very good coach. He's overseen a complete overhaul of the culture and the development of the rawest QB prospect pretty much ever, into an elite QB. His efforst should be applauded. He's done very well. He's not the right fit to take the Bills to the next level. He's marty Shottenheimer and Dan Reeves. 1. Free Josh! 2. Figure out your playoff defense 3. probably find a coach to get you from here to there. Just my two cents.

I didn't even read past the first post in this thread. STOP DOING THIS. Allen is a great QB. Mahomes is a great QB. There is no reason to wonder about, doubt, think about "what if" or any of that when you have Josh Allen. The teams that SHOULD be doing that are the Broncos, Jets, Giants, Browns...you know, teams that passed up Allen when they could have taken him. Harbaugh just took a job with the Chargers, who have a horrible cap situation going into next year and cheap owners. They have Herbert....who isn't nearly ass accomplished as Allen. That's how much the QB matters in the NFL...and the Bills have one of the 3 best humans in the world at that position. Your problems are not at the QB position. Stop looking there to find fault or wonder about it. There are VERY VERY VERY few teams who have a QB where the fanbase has ZERO to worry or wonder about and the Bills is one of those. 30 other teams WISH they had Allen.

It's almost certainly not going to happen but it is worth considering. Dan Reeves and John Elway had alot of success together for several years but could never win a Super Bowl...and they got a to couple of them together and just couldn't get over the Hump. Dan Reeves was a really good football coach and he took Atlanta to their first Super Bowl after he was fied from Denver. It wasn't that Reeves was bad, but he'd clearly gone about as far as he was going to go with Elway and they moved on to Mike Shanahan, who was alot more innovative on offense and they eventually won back to back in 98 and 99 at the very end of Elways career...RIGHT BEFORE it was too late. Clearly McDermott is a good coach. He's overseen the transition for the Bills from a bad team, to one that made the playoffs with Tyrod Taylor, to drafting and overseeing the development of Josh Allen, who was very talented, but very very raw and he has seen that through with amazing results. All these things are great accomplishments to be celebrated. But....it seems like he's taken this as far as he can....either he's at the limits of his skills and capacity as a coach...stricken by bad luck...message is getting tired and old...or probalby some combo of all that. Making the decision to continue on with McDermott as HC isn't a referendum on him being a good or bad coach. He is a very good coach...but it's rather a choice to give a new or fresh voice and ideas a try where McDermotts methods have stalled. I very much doubt a change is forthcoming, but it's worth considering IF you think there is a guy out there that has a vision, plan and credibility to go farther. I don't know who that person would be. I also don't think McDermott is your coach when and if you win a super bowl.

I've read through all of these.... I'll give a score, but want to give a few observations first - KC hasn't given up more than 27 to a team all year....including to the Bills who got 20 in KC on a day when the Bills were +1 in TO margin. I see alot of score predictions in the 30's for the Bills. The Chiefs were 7-1 in games where the TO margin was equal or better. The only loss was week 1 against Detroit by 1 point. In games where KC was Even or better in TO margin, KC had a +91 point differential. In games where the Bills were Even or Better in TO margin, the Bills had a +203 point differential. That was the case in 9 games. Of the Bills 5 losses, they were minus in TO ratio in 4 of those. They were +1 in the OT loss to the Eagles. Of the Chiefs 5 Losses they were minus in TO ratio in 4 of those, and even in the other one (the loss to the Lions) Turnovers are a big factor in this game needless to say. In games where KC did not turn the ball over at all on offense they averaged 29 points a game, but this only happened twice all year. In games where the Bills did not turn the ball over at all on offense, they averaged 39 points a game, but this was only 3 games Both teams had exactly 28 Turnovers by their offense/Special teams. The Bills were second in the NFL in takeaways with 30. KC was 27th with only 17. The winner will be EVEN OR BETTER in TO margin. Stats for the season favor the Bills in this regard. In 4 out of the 5 Bills losses they were held to under 100 yards rushing as a team. The other loss The Bills had 4 TO to Denver but rushed for 192 as a team. There is no pattern to KC rushing yards and W/L. KC has a good overall D, but it's average at best stopping the run. Some of this is do in part to KC simply committing to stopping the pass but it's not a good run D. To win KC will need to keep the Bills, as a team, under 120 at most. Ok, that said, the above items should be playing into the Bills favor, BUT.....The injuries a really rough here for the Bills. The 3 big ones - Benford - KC has suffered badly from poor WR play this year but that SEEMS to have been somewhat fixed by going with an approach where you don't target the bad guys as much and target the good guys more often. Rice has emerged. Mising a key CB won't help, and will likely be something KC will try to exploit. Davis - KC has been incredibly successful eliminating teams No.1 WR all year. Diggs is going to be bottled up. Bernard - I understand he's a gametime decision. It's hard to cut on sprained ankles even if he goes. I won't be surprised to see KC roll with a ton of 2 and 3 TE sets trying to get the Bills LB's out on the field. KC isn't missing anyone of consequence. Big edge to KC on injuries. The injuries pretty well cover what I think KC will do when on offense VS the Bills D....so when the Bills have the ball, KC is going to leverage their fast, athletic LB corps. As in the first matchup, there will be a LB (most likely Willie Gay) being used to spy Allen the whole game. All rushed 10 times for 32 yards with a long of 8 in the regular season matchup. With no Gabe Davis, KC might also try and clamp down a bit more on the backs coming out into the pattern more aggressively. No WR other than Diggs will bother KC and he'll find himself in alot of man coverage while KC works to keep the TE's contained. If Knox and Kincaid can be held in check, and KC can effectively limit Allen with a LB spy, then the running game of the Bills is the key to cracking the KC D. KC D isn't that good against the run. Getting out to a lead will be important for KC to compel the Bills to pass more. Bills conventional run game will be key Ok...that all said... I also think there is a degree of all the pressure being on the Bills....they finally get this matchup in Orchard Park, with an electric loud crowd. Probalby will help get a false start or 2 but I think the Bills, if they get behind, will have the pressure of knowing that big cap related roster changes are coming this offseason, and like Tiger Woods on a Sunday in a major, lurking, the idea Mahomes is on the sideline, if the game is close, the idea he's over there might get in their heads. If there weren't the injuries, I'd be inclined to take the Bills in this game. KC is a rough matchup for the Bills even when they are healthy. I think KC has "flipped the switch" now that the post season is here, they are healthy and don't have the pressure of being in some sort of window trying to get 1 Lombardi. All this factored in - KC 26, Bills 24.

I showed up here back before the Bills played KC in KC and gave an honest assesment of how that game would go. I predicted a Bills win. I am a troll.