Mentions the Chiefs several times, so figured you guys would want to see it.
The Bills are the team no one, including the Chiefs wants to see in the playoffs
Forget the Ravens. Forget the Bucs. The team you don't want to play in January is the Buffalo Bills.
With all due respect to the Packers, the AFC's No. 2 overall seed may very well be the second-best team in the NFL.
The Bills crushed the Dolphins 56-26 in a game Miami needed for their playoff hopes. And maybe we didn't see a 30-point win coming, but it's in line with what the Bills have been doing to teams in recent weeks.
Buffalo has had a top-five scoring defense since Week 12. If not for the Hail Murray they would have finished on a 10-game win streak dating back to before Halloween.
And then there's Josh Allen. The third-year franchise quarterback has, in consecutive weeks, set the Bills single-season records for passing touchdowns and passing yards.
What I love most about the Bills is that they aren't even letting teams hang around. Since that Week 10 loss to the Cardinals, not a single team has finished within a possession of the Bills.
I go back to that Week 6 loss to the Chiefs. Head coach Sean McDermott picked his poison and let the Chiefs' run game beat them up so that Patrick Mahomes wouldn't. Kansas City rushed for 245 yards and Mahomes passed for 225 yards.
But with about 5 minutes left in the game and down 23-17, the Bills forced a Clyde Edwards-Helaire fumble that would have given the Bills the ball at the Kansas City 31.
They would have had a chance to take the lead against the Chiefs there. But instead, the replay showed Edwards-Helaire's knee was down just before the ball came out. Mahomes took the Chiefs down for the field goal and that provided the final margin of victory.
Allen is a better quarterback today than he was then. The defense is playing far better ball. And after sweeping the Patriots and beating the likes of the Seahawks and Steelers, the Bills now know how to win big games.
Originally Posted by daquix:
Isn't it just common sense?
If a team goes 4-4 in their first 8 games and looks average, but then goes 8-0 in the second half and looks amazing, what matters more?
What they were doing in September? Or what they're doing right now?
What I said isn稚 common sense?
If a team goes 4-4 in the first 8 and then 8-0 I知 looking at what the total is. I知 looking at the teams with winning records, looking at what they did against playoff teams. To me that matters more than only looking at bits and pieces of the total.
What did they do in September, who was injured, who did they play, did they get someone new, all things I知 looking at.
What are they doing right now, I知 looking at the same things.
8-0 is amazing if you are playing nothing but Houston type teams to finish the season. [Reply]
Originally Posted by daquix:
Pittsburgh will find that out next week, when they have to come to Buffalo.
Pittsburgh has "evolved" from their first match-up with Buffalo and will beat the Bills in the playoffs... assuming Buffalo is able to beat Indy and actually win a playoff game for the first time in 26 years. [Reply]
Originally Posted by mac459:
What I said isn稚 common sense?
If a team goes 4-4 in the first 8 and then 8-0 I知 looking at what the total is. I知 looking at the teams with winning records, looking at what they did against playoff teams. To me that matters more than only looking at bits and pieces of the total.
What did they do in September, who was injured, who did they play, did they get someone new, all things I知 looking at.
What are they doing right now, I知 looking at the same things.
8-0 is amazing if you are playing nothing but Houston type teams to finish the season.
I suppose we will agree to disagree then.
What matters most to me is "What have you done lately".
For example, I'm not impressed by the Steelers 11-0 start, because they have lost the last 4 of 5 games. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88:
Pittsburgh has "evolved" from their first match-up with Buffalo and will beat the Bills in the playoffs... assuming Buffalo is able to beat Indy and actually win a playoff game for the first time in 26 years.
