In Sunday’s AFC Championship Game, the Bills came painfully close to converting on a fourth-down attempt as Allen’s desperation heave fell through Dalton Kincaid’s hands. The turnover on downs all but sealed the Chiefs’ third straight trip to the Super Bowl.
Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott gave his thoughts on a close fourth-down conversion attempt by Josh Allen that failed during his team's 32-29
This was the fourth time in the last five years in which the Chiefs and Mahomes spoiled the Bills and Allen's chances of reaching a Super Bowl.
The Buffalo Bills, facing a fourth-and-short while down by one point early in the fourth quarter, called a QB sneak for Josh Allen. Allen appeared to get past the line to gain amidst a slew of Kansas City Chiefs defenders but was pushed backwards by the end of the play and the ball was spotted short of the first down.
Allen has to be wondering if he’s the Charles Barkley of his era, a surpassing talent with the bad luck to be born into a time when the generation’s greatest talent is in charge.
In a somber moment at his postgame press conference, the quarterback efficiently but emotionally summed up his team's performance and their ultimate loss, which once again came at the hands of the unstoppable Chiefs. "It's not fun," a visibly upset Allen told the media. "But to be the champs, you got to beat the champs and we didn't do it tonight."
The Chiefs earned a key stop on the Bills in the fourth quarter of the AFC championship game. Did Josh Allen make the line to gain or was he short?
In 2024 they made a similar move. $14,875,000 of Allen’s pay was converted into bonuses, bringing his salary down to $1,125,000. This restructure netted him a total of $60 million cash for the season while freeing up $16,700,000 in cap space.
The Kansas City Chiefs are heading back to the Super Bowl. Andy Reid's club has punched its ticket to New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX after taking down the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship. While any playoff win of this magnitude is impressive,
The Buffalo Bills ought to be getting used to this by now.It surely doesn't make it any easier.Despite another gutsy effort from Josh Allen and his bunch, who took the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs down to the wire in the playoffs yet again,
The rivalry between the Bills and Chiefs added another thrilling, historic moment on Sunday in its incredible recent history. But for Josh Allen and Buffalo the result was all too familiar: another heartbreaking playoff loss.