The Buffalo Bills suffered yet another crushing playoff loss against a team that has been their kryptonite in recent years: the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Bills lost to the Chiefs by three points in the AFC Championship Game, just as they did in last year’s divisional round, and Bills Mafia is wondering what the franchise has to do to get past Patrick Mahomes.
This was the fourth time Buffalo has lost a playoff game to Kansas City, which gives quarterback Josh Allen an unfortunate achievement.
“Bills QB Josh Allen is the first QB in NFL history to lose four playoff games against the same QB (Mahomes),” Dov Kleiman wrote on X.
Historic: #Bills QB Josh Allen is the first QB in NFL history to lose 4 playoff games against the same QB (Mahomes). pic.twitter.com/c3fScN81a7
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) January 27, 2025
Allen’s first defeat at the hands of the Chiefs came in the 2020 season, when Kansas City was coming off its first Super Bowl championship of the Mahomes era.
The following season, Buffalo lost in overtime when Travis Kelce scored the game-winning touchdown.
Last season, Buffalo had a chance to tie the divisional game against the Chiefs in the closing minutes, but Tyler Bass missed a field goal, leaving them three points short at the end.
This season, they also had a couple of miscues, particularly on two failed two-point conversion attempts, and a fourth down in the fourth quarter when Allen dove over the pile and appeared to cross the first-down marker but was marked short, a ruling that will anger Bills fans for a long time.
The Chiefs will now play for a third straight Super Bowl championship, while the Bills will again have to spend several months figuring out what went wrong.
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