Chiefs at Bills 1994

[Buffalo03]

Continuing on with what I started last week "old Bills games against our next opponent where we are playing them the coming week" I am choosing Chiefs at Bills from 1994. The Bills dominated this game. I remember this game as an 8 year old at the time. I started really getting into football the year before in the Bills 4th Super Bowl year. So, this was my 2nd year of following them and of my young Bills Fandom. Jim Kelly threw 4 TDs in this game. Andre Reed had 2 TD catches and Bruce had 2 sacks in this game on our way to a 44-10 dismantling. The rest of this year didn't go as planned and we lost 6 of our last 8 games and missed the playoffs after 4 straight years of Super Bowl appearances. This game was probably the best highlight of that season. If you have any memories of this game you want to share and as always....Go Bills. Let's get a big one tomorrow 

 

 

[Rubes]

Sure would like to see a couple of TDs tomorrow by #88 again, just like in that game...

 

[SoonerBillsFan]

31 minutes ago, Rubes said:

Sure would like to see a couple of TDs tomorrow by #88 again, just like in that game...

 

Is that the game where Metz collided with two guys in the endzone a really  ****** up his finger?

[Buffalo03]

7 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

Is that the game where Metz collided with two guys in the endzone a really  ****** up his finger?

I always forget Metz played for them this season. I don't really remember if he did screw up his finger in this game or not

[Chicken Boo]

"All I wanna Do" by Cheryl Crow was released in 1993??? 😬

[Boatdrinks]

It felt like kind of a last hurrah for the Super Bowl Bills, as the season went downhill from there. They missed the playoffs for the first time since the strike-shortened ‘87 campaign. While they returned to the playoffs in 95 and 96, they never seemed to be top tier Super Bowl contender for the remainder of Kelly’s playing days. 

[GoBillsForeverAndAlways]

Hopefully the Bills similarly dominate tomorrow the way they did at this game in 1994!!

[kenny3000]

My first football game!!

Biscuit (I think) knocks Joe Montana out of the game. I learn how to do donuts in the snowy parking lot day before with Uncle George!!!

Edited November 18 by kenny3000

[BB2004]

On 11/16/2024 at 8:52 PM, Boatdrinks said:

It felt like kind of a last hurrah for the Super Bowl Bills, as the season went downhill from there. They missed the playoffs for the first time since the strike-shortened ‘87 campaign. While they returned to the playoffs in 95 and 96, they never seemed to be top tier Super Bowl contender for the remainder of Kelly’s playing days. 

I agree and I think this was after a bye week too where it looked like we were well on our way to another good season. 

[BADOLBILZ]

On 11/16/2024 at 9:52 PM, Boatdrinks said:

It felt like kind of a last hurrah for the Super Bowl Bills, as the season went downhill from there. They missed the playoffs for the first time since the strike-shortened ‘87 campaign. While they returned to the playoffs in 95 and 96, they never seemed to be top tier Super Bowl contender for the remainder of Kelly’s playing days. 

 

 

I think that's a little hindsight.   It turned out they weren't a top contender but they were a popular pick to reach the SB going into 96'.  Bruce Smith, Bryce Paup and Ted Washington were incredible as the defense became dynamic in 1995 and Kelly had been probably the offensive MVP of the AFC that year and seemed to be maturing into a more cerebral version of himself while still retaining enough physical skill.    But then Kelly hit the wall like Aaron Rodgers has.   It wasn't really physically quantifiable he just started making inexplicable mistakes.    Didn't help that Bennett left in UFA unexpectedly after he was just finally reaching his potential......at MLB........where he should have been all along.   Chris Spielman was a nice fall back but Bennett could do so much more.  

[dave mcbride]

12 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

 

I think that's a little hindsight.   It turned out they weren't a top contender but they were a popular pick to reach the SB going into 96'.  Bruce Smith, Bryce Paup and Ted Washington were incredible as the defense became dynamic in 1995 and Kelly had been probably the offensive MVP of the AFC that year and seemed to be maturing into a more cerebral version of himself while still retaining enough physical skill.    But then Kelly hit the wall like Aaron Rodgers has.   It wasn't really physically quantifiable he just started making inexplicable mistakes.    Didn't help that Bennett left in UFA unexpectedly after he was just finally reaching his potential......at MLB........where he should have been all along.   Chris Spielman was a nice fall back but Bennett could do so much more.  

He was never the same thrower after rupturing his bursar sac in the 1993 season. He went from an effortless thrower to one who labored to make the more difficult throws. His deep game really declined and he shifted to more of a pop fly thrower in that regard from around the second half of 1993 onward. By 1996, he had clearly broken down - a so-so arm paired with increasing immobility plus poor decision making. The 1990 Kelly on that 1996 team would have been a SB participant. 

[BADOLBILZ]

4 hours ago, dave mcbride said:

He was never the same thrower after rupturing his bursar sac in the 1993 season. He went from an effortless thrower to one who labored to make the more difficult throws. His deep game really declined and he shifted to more of a pop fly thrower in that regard from around the second half of 1993 onward. By 1996, he had clearly broken down - a so-so arm paired with increasing immobility plus poor decision making. The 1990 Kelly on that 1996 team would have been a SB participant. 

 

The bursa sac was definitely a problem for sure but he had numerous arm and leg ailments.  His physical drop-off from the first SB to the last was notable.  But Kelly was largely the same quality of QB from 1992-1995.   What he lost physically he made up for by becoming a better decision maker/leader.   The talk in 1995 was if he had been that good of a leader in 1990 they'd have won SB XXV.    That 1995 team was really deficient of passing game talent, as you may recall.   Kelly just fell off a cliff in 1996.   And that really was NOT expected.   They had just signed Quinn Early in UFA.......and he had been a top 15 NFL WR for the Saints in 1995........and drafted Eric Moulds who people had high hopes would have an immediate impact(everyone else from that great first round WR class did).   Expectations were sky high for that team on opening day 1996.    

[dave mcbride]

2 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

The bursa sac was definitely a problem for sure but he had numerous arm and leg ailments.  His physical drop-off from the first SB to the last was notable.  But Kelly was largely the same quality of QB from 1992-1995.   What he lost physically he made up for by becoming a better decision maker/leader.   The talk in 1995 was if he had been that good of a leader in 1990 they'd have won SB XXV.    That 1995 team was really deficient of passing game talent, as you may recall.   Kelly just fell off a cliff in 1996.   And that really was NOT expected.   They had just signed Quinn Early in UFA.......and he had been a top 15 NFL WR for the Saints in 1995........and drafted Eric Moulds who people had high hopes would have an immediate impact(everyone else from that great first round WR class did).   Expectations were sky high for that team on opening day 1996.    

One mistake by me — that injury occurred in the latter half of 1992, not 1993. When he came back that season, he was not as good. Never the same thrower after that. He played a lot smarter in 1995, to be sure.