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.
It still outlines how there is no such thing as hot streaks going into the playoffs, and if anything all of those numbers have gotten more in favor of byes because no non bye team has made the SB since this article. [Reply]
It still outlines how there is no such thing as hot streaks going into the playoffs, and if anything all of those numbers have gotten more in favor of byes because no non bye team has made the SB since this article.
Sure.
But a "hot" team is different than what we are talking about though.
What I am saying is that how a team is playing more recently is more indicative of how they will play in the playoffs.
Whether they are hot or not.
It could be a "cold" team, for example.
Look at the Steelers. They won 11 games in a row, and dropped 4 of their last 5.
I think they are more likely to lose in the playoffs, than win, based on them losing 4 of the last 5.
Some would say "Yeah, but they won 11 straight". And to me, that's irrelevant.
Because what they have done most recently, is crap the bed. That, to me, is more indicative of what they will do next week. Rather than what they did in Week 1. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KChiefs1:
I understand you better than some here do.
I used to be you. I lived for that great regular season. It was awesome!
Chiefs would be awesome(or I thought they were) in the regular season & then get to the playoffs & get beat in the playoffs be a missed FG, or mysterious penalty or some weird play.
The playoffs are different son, everything is magnified. Players who played freely during the regular season, suddenly have their assholes pucker up in the playoffs. Players who were average in the regular season start to perform spectacularly!
It's a whole new world son.
listen to Andy Reid's presser yesterday (Monday).....he talks specifically about how the game moves even faster, how each little thing gets magnified, etc. etc. Very interesting listening....
Einstein thinks his Bills are just going to strut in and pound everyone with all of that 1 game playoff experience they have.....and they very well could
But reality is that the NFL season ends in disappointment for 31 of 32 teams, and for 13 of the 14 playoff participants.....
Now, I've always clearly said that nothing is guaranteed, and that is certainly the case for our beloved Chiefs. But, I'll take a team that has been to the playoffs 6 of the past 7 years, who's current core, as of the start of the Pat Mahomes era, is 4-2 in the playoff, has been to two AFCCG, won a Super Bowl after overcoming all sorts of adversity through said playoff run, and then backed it with winning 14 out of 16 the following year, including going undefeated against all other playoff participants.
Again, doesn't guarantee anything, but that's a pretty solid resume going into the playoffs....and for those people trying to say that somehow Chiefs should be concerned should really reconsider.... [Reply]
It still outlines how there is no such thing as hot streaks going into the playoffs, and if anything all of those numbers have gotten more in favor of byes because no non bye team has made the SB since this article.
But a "hot" team is different than what we are talking about though.
What I am saying is that how a team is playing more recently is more indicative of how they will play in the playoffs.
Whether they are hot or not.
Look at the Steelers. They won 11 games in a row, and dropped 4 of their last 5.
I think they are more likely to lose in the playoffs, than win, based on them losing 4 of the last 5.
Some would say "Yeah, but they won 11 straight". And to me, that's irrelevant.
Because what they have done most recently, is crap the bed. That, to me, is more indicative of what they will do next week. Rather than what they did in Week 1.
I didn't even go back 5 years.
2019 49ers - lost 2 of 5 - lost SB
2018 Patriots - lost 2 of 4 - won SB
2018 Rams - lost 2 of 4 - lost SB
2017 Eagles - lost 2 of 5 - won SB
2015 Broncos - lost 2 of 4 - won SB
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
I didn't even go back 5 years.
2019 49ers - lost 2 of 5 - lost SB
2018 Patriots - lost 2 of 4 - won SB
2018 Rams - lost 2 of 4 - lost SB
2017 Eagles - lost 2 of 5 - won SB
2015 Broncos - lost 2 of 4 - won SB
Do you ever get tired of looking stupid?
In other words, not a single one, going back 5 years, won or even went to a SB, while losing 4 of 5.
Originally Posted by MahomesMagic:
The Bills LB's Edmunds and AJ Klein were straight garbage to start the year. McDermott's adjustment was just to have them at the LOS or blitz all the time now since they are horrible in space.
That might work against rookie Tua or Lock. It won't be an answer to KC. Or Indy. Or Baltimore. Or Tenny.
Against KC you line up Klein and Edmunds that close to LOS and the ball is whizzing over their heads in 1 second to a streaking Tyreek or Mecole.
I'm hoping and praying the Bills ditch the soft zone look they used in the last game, and go with this strategy if the Chiefs meet up with them again....
They couldn't beat the Chiefs when they did actually take the ball out of Pat's hands, they sure as hell aren't going to beat them when they don't..... [Reply]
