AFC Championship Game Week Thread - Bills at Chiefs

[TheFunPolice]

We're going to win by 10+

 

I am not even nervous. KC has been hanging on for dear life all season. Making the one play when they need to. But that's a very small margin for error. 

 

All it takes is one drop, one missed block, one bad throw and the magic doesn't happen. 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

15 minutes ago, VW82 said:

 

KC has been injured on offense all year and now they're healthy. Pacheco only played in 8 games including playoffs. Brown only played in 3. Hopkins 11. Kelce is a different animal in the playoffs. 

 

 

This QB/coach deserves some benefit of the doubt given what they've achieved to this point even if their offense has only been good enough this year. Discounting the Chiefs after everything they've done to our defense over the years seems way overly confident. 

Pacheco ain’t right I don’t think he’s 100%…I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t get many carries.  I think he’s a worse option than hunt right now.  Brown and Hopkins haven’t really had a lot of time in the offense to build chemistry and brown quite frankly has built his reputation off one pretty good season in his whole career. He’s a really funny case cuz he used to kind of be a punchline in Baltimore and Arizona but then suddenly he joins the chiefs and even though he had never played a game he is suddenly this gamechanging wr that everyone needed to panic about 
 

Everyone kind of made the same mistake with the uche and humphries signings like just throwing on the chiefs jersey makes you superhuman even if you are fresh off an acl recovery and it just isn’t the case. 
 

what makes Kelce so good is he and mahomes can pretty much read eachothers minds on those scramble drill type plays, he doesn’t have that rapport with the other two guys. Can’t remember who I was arguing with about this haha but rice was basically irreplaceable this year because of how much time he’s spent in the offense.  Adding Hopkins and getting brown ‘back’ hasn’t really mitigated that 

 

Edited Friday at 09:46 PM by Generic_Bills_Fan

[Scott7975]

Direct link to the article: https://www.newyorkupstate.com/buffalo-bills/2025/01/how-bills-micah-hyde-is-helping-cole-bishop-prep-for-chiefs-with-taylor-rapp-out.html

 

Its free. Short read but it kinda made me feel better about Cole being in there.

Edited Friday at 09:51 PM by Scott7975

[strive_for_five_guy]

1 minute ago, Scott7975 said:

 

Hope Cole doesn’t read about how big of a game this is then 🙃

[JohnNord]

William Belichick sounds like he’s picking Buffalo

 

 

[Einstein]

17 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

Every team has guys running open at points but it all depends at where 

 

He did not have guys running wide open down the field in two or three seconds 

 

After some broken plays or extended plays he had guys running open  4 5 seconds later.. late developing plays

 

But that's an eternity in the NFL which is why he didn't find them easily.. we have guys running open down field 5 seconds later too.. NFL corners can't cover for 5 or 6 seconds

 

We do not have busted coverage typically two seconds into a play and plays are quick in the NFL.. the Chiefs offense has been pretty anemic I honestly think it's crazy you think they're going to put up 35

 

Mahomes is great but they're not magically shifting a gear

 

I hope you’re right.

 

This is in one subject that I hope to be wrong.

[stevewin]

2 hours ago, Logic said:

I've seen a fair bit of "this is the week Brady and Josh open it up!" and "Time to unleash Josh" sentiments this week.

Allow me to be the boring contrarian who says the opposite: I want to see Josh continue with his smart and efficient play and not feel like it's time to do anything crazy unless and until absolutely necessary.

Last year, in fact, he was smart and efficient ALL GAME LONG...until the biggest moment of the game on the Bills' final offensive drive, at which time he eschewed a safe option that likely would have gone for first down yardage in favor of an end zone shot. It was almost certainly the wrong decision given the moment and all its variables.

I seem to remember feeling like Spags challenged the Bills offense to be patient and smart the whole game long, and Josh answered the bell....UNTIL that play. In the biggest moment of the game, he reverted to "Favre says touchdowns!" and it cost them the game.

So...be smart, Josh. Take what the defense gives you, play within yourself, and only pull on the Superman cape if you absolutely need to.

James Cook, Ray Davis, and Ty Johnson FTW.

I feel the same way about the smart/efficient offense continuing - to me though the Josh superman/cape thing will be in the form of using his legs more.  If things are close esp in the 2nd half I expect them to unleash Josh more on called runs - there is no tomorrow and this is the time to exploit that advantage if they need to

[JohnNord]

3 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

Pacheco ain’t right I don’t think he’s 100%…I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t get many carries.  I think he’s a worse option than hunt right now.  Brown and Hopkins haven’t really had a lot of time in the offense to build chemistry and brown quite frankly has built his reputation off one pretty good season in his whole career. He’s a really funny case cuz he used to kind of be a punchline in Baltimore and Arizona but then suddenly he joins the chiefs and even though he had never played a game he is suddenly this gamechanging wr that everyone needed to panic about 
 

Everyone kind of made the same mistake with the uche and humphries signings like just throwing on the chiefs jersey makes you superhuman even if you are fresh off an acl recovery and it just isn’t the case. 
 

what makes Kelce so good is he and mahomes can pretty much read eachothers minds on those scramble drill type plays, he doesn’t have that rapport with the other two guys. Can’t remember who I was arguing with about this haha but rice was basically irreplaceable this year because of how much time he’s spent in the offense.  Adding Hopkins and getting brown ‘back’ hasn’t really mitigated that 

 

TBH it was extremely telling that Chiefs were running the ball with Hunt in the 3rd and 4th quarter to grind out the clock.  Pacheco was on the sidelines and it wasn’t because he was hurt.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

9 minutes ago, JohnNord said:

William Belichick sounds like he’s picking Buffalo

 

 

Haha he totally dropped a line that I’ve been saying for awhile which made me smile.  Really none of those past playoff games mean anything, there is no history of the chiefs just going out and dominating us every playoff game they pretty much follow exactly the same game flow as the regular season games.  the recent two playoff games could’ve easily gone either way and the team is so much different than 2020 that who really cares? 
 

[JohnNord]

1 minute ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

Haha he totally dropped a line that I’ve been saying for awhile which made me smile.  Really none of those past playoff games mean anything, there is no history of the chiefs just going out and dominating us every playoff game they pretty much follow exactly the same game flow as the regular season games.  the recent two playoff games could’ve easily gone either way and the team is so much different than 2020 that who really cares? 
 

I read that there are only 9 players that are on the roster for all 3 loses

[Special K]

Surprising stat: The Buffalo Bills franchise is 3-15 in playoff games where they are not the favorite.

 

I don't care what this stat shows, this Bills team has been built to beat KC.....they were not built to beat the Ravens, but yet the Bills were victorious.......the Bills will walk into KC as underdogs, and walk out AFC Champs!!!

 

Go Bills!!!!

[Warriorspikes51]

Mahomes Grandpa just went into Hospice care

 

Sad news for their family. Prayers to them. 

 

and bad news for us IMO

[Steptide]

31 minutes ago, TheFunPolice said:

We're going to win by 10+

 

I am not even nervous. KC has been hanging on for dear life all season. Making the one play when they need to. But that's a very small margin for error. 

 

All it takes is one drop, one missed block, one bad throw and the magic doesn't happen. 

I'm not as confident as you, but one thing that gives me some comfort, is the fact that kc hasent scored over 30 points this season. Which is absolutely insane given their record. Assuming the bills protect the ball, and don't have 3 turnovers and multiple dropped passes, I think the bills are the better team. This is kc though, our Achilles heal, our nemesis. Just freaking win, please 

[Magox]

Hell of a comment from Kelce on Josh

 

[Warriorspikes51]

Allen will need the best game of his career for us to win considering the Mahomes family news…very likely Patrick will play better than he has all season IMO

[ShakAttack]

12 minutes ago, Special K said:

Surprising stat: The Buffalo Bills franchise is 3-15 in playoff games where they are not the favorite.

 

I don't care what this stat shows, this Bills team has been built to beat KC.....they were not built to beat the Ravens, but yet the Bills were victorious.......the Bills will walk into KC as underdogs, and walk out AFC Champs!!!

 

Go Bills!!!!

 

Well that means it was 2-15 before the Ravens game.

 

and it means we are 1-0 as playoff underdogs this season.

 

for what it’s worth. 

[Peter]

I am just going to keep it simple:

 

Go Bills!!!

[Warriorspikes51]

Bishop is going to be wrecked for multiple TD bombs.  (Please let me be very wrong!!!)

Edited Friday at 10:30 PM by Warriorspikes51

[Doc Brown]

15 minutes ago, Special K said:

Surprising stat: The Buffalo Bills franchise is 3-15 in playoff games where they are not the favorite.

 

I don't care what this stat shows, this Bills team has been built to beat KC.....they were not built to beat the Ravens, but yet the Bills were victorious.......the Bills will walk into KC as underdogs, and walk out AFC Champs!!!

 

Go Bills!!!!

Wait. As underdogs they're 3-15?  Absolutely shocking.

Just now, Warriorspikes51 said:

Bishop is going to be wrecked for multiple TD bombs.  (Please let me be very wrong!!!)

Okay Xavier.  Four teams drafted a WR ahead of you and it's the Bills you're mad at?  I'm sure the manufactured outrage will make him run faster on Sunday.

[Dillenger4]

50 minutes ago, Ray Stonada said:

If you look at the teams this season the Bills offense is better than the Chiefs, but their defense is better than Buffalo’s played for much of the year.

 

However, our defense seems to be ramping up, looking at the Broncos and Ravens games.

 

On the other hand, Mahomes and Kelce are at their best in the biggest games. So is Josh, but we need excellent games out of three or four other players too.

 

We win by two scores if so.

We win by two scores easy. I called it vs Denver and I called it vs balt (that we win). KC is not good. They snuck in with a bye and vs a cheap, decimated Texans team. KC almost lost to Carolina and Denver this year. They are not good. kermit has had his days and is trending down. Bills win, with ease, by AT LEAST 2 TD's. We are the much, much better team.