CBS: The Bills are the team no one, including the Chiefs wants to see in the playoffs
 

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.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/t...insider-notes/

I'm glad they've looked really good, I don't want KC overlooking anyone in the playoffs. Come to play.

I’m sure there will be plenty of snark in this thread, but I think the article is true.

The Chiefs would still be favored, as they should be, but if you were to give Andy Reid the CHOICE - would you rather play Buffalo, or a weaker team like the Browns, Steelers, etc - I think he would definitely choose someone other than Buffalo.

I love all the love for the Bills!

Keep disrespecting the Chiefs and Mahomes. I think this year they will blow some people out in the playoffs.

I admire the heel antics, daquix. Well done.

I like all the "but if this did/didn't happen the Bills would have" excuses built into the article.

I heard all the same stuff about the Titans last year.

Doesn't really matter if the Bills beat the Seahawks and Steelers in the regular season. To say that prepares them to come to Arrowhead and play in the AFC Championship, which the Chiefs would be hosting for the third year in a row, is laughable.

The Bills are clearly the second best team in the conference, but the Chiefs will win the AFC once again as long as they show up and play their best game. It's that simple. There's really very little drama involved, which is why the press is so desperate to create some.

Well, considering the fact that if the Chiefs and Bills were to play it would be in the AFC Championship Game, the Chiefs won't be overlooking them.

I think the Bills are a bigger threat than the Titans last season, just because Josh Allen is playing out of his mind. Chiefs have done a decent job getting up for big games like the Bills, Ravens and Bucs to come out and have a dominant performance. I think they'll be ready.

The way this team has played, the biggest worry might be coming out flat against a team like the Browns.

We curbed stomped the Bills with the weakest part of our offense.

Bring em on. We'll do it again.

The Chiefs already beat the Bills this season (in Buffalo) and exposed Josh Allen as a fraud.

Next.

By the way, the OP is a bandwagoning fraud.

The dumbshit joined CP at the start of the 2011 season to talk trash about the Bills opening day win over Todd Haley's Chiefs that season and then he vanished for nine years until the Bills finally became good.

Go back into hiding.

The Chiefs have not been good at keeping the last 7 games opponent's at a distance. Those games were all too close for comfort. The Bill's have not been toying with anyone the last several games.

I suspect after this weeks vacation Reid is giving the team, it will be serious business throughout the playoffs.

Considering Allen has never won a playoff game...I'll take the "prove it first" angle.

Post-season is a different beast...different pressure.

Ravens were the hot team last year...won 12 in a row to end the year.

I don't think it should surprise anyone that the Chiefs are not invincible this year. They weren't last year either. It'll take some solid play and luck to win the Super Bowl again.

But that said, they'll be favored in each matchup they could face, so the CHANCES are that we'll beat any of them. Time will tell.

I hate lazy journalists.
It is obvious that they took a story from this time last year, crossed out the Ravens and wrote in the Bills.

The Ravens Bills are the team nobody want to see in the playoffs.

I forget..... how did that end up last year?

I do think there's a chance the Bills will be upset by the Colts. Cocky teams with little playoff experience tend to have issues when the competition level suddenly jumps up a level.

Wow shocked that the number one seed wouldn't want to see the number 2 seed in the playoffs. Real hard hitting journalism right here.

I hope you die!!!

Is this true? Daquix?

If so.....smh

Geez, that's a little over the top, don't you think?

The story in the OP and $4 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

Call me when Buffalo is actually on the way to KC to play a game.

Pats still a measuring stick, it will pass(snark)

I agree that the Chiefs are the team to beat. Out of curiosity? If beating a team, means you’ll do it again. Doesn’t that mean that the Raiders were better than the Chiefs after they beat them the first game, and that the Raiders should have won the second game too?

OP spent an hour of his life searching for an article to troll another team's message board and came up with that?

Quite bringing up that Raiders game. We already dealt with that. I noticed that you didn't address the second part of his post. Why did you disappear for 9 years? That seems pretty cowardly. :hmmm:

Well, if CBS said it, it must be true. I’m sure Super Bowl winning coach Andy Reid and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes are terrified just thinking about this team that have won exactly no playoff games the past couple of decades.

I want to beat the crap out of them in the AFCCG, paybacks are hell.

Sorry but this is just the dumbest take ever and you keep repeating it over and over.

If you actually WATCHED what the Raiders and Chiefs did in the first game, realized how it is different than what they normally do, and then watched the 2nd game unfold, you'd know the answer to the question.

You just keep repeating it because it's the only hope you have. The only hope you can muster is that context, history, and tendencies mean absolutely nothing and that each game is completely unrelated to the next.

It's beyond dumb.

Considering the Chiefs were 4-0 vs the Raiders with Mahomes as QB before that loss, it was reasonable to consider that loss a fluke, which was confirmed by the Chiefs win over the Raiders in their second match-up.

Buffalo hasn't won a playoff game in 26 years and Josh Allen has yet to win a playoff game.

If you want to project that the Bills will transform into a significantly better match-up against the Chiefs than they showed in the first game... with their recent playoff history... and the fact the second game will be in Arrowhead... good luck.

Also interesting that you ignored the question about your nine year absence between your initial posts after the Bills win over the Chiefs to open the 2011 season and then silence until this year.

You only feel comfortable discussing the Bills when they are winning?

Put it this way.

By YOUR OWN reasoning, the current hot streak the Bills are on means NOTHING because previous games don't matter. None of them matter.

So yeah, you might want to think about the logical holes in your argument. They're numerous.

Remember last year when the Ravens were blowing out teams in the regular season?

Then the playoffs happened and whoof.

Yea doesn't ****ing matter.

Next hot take.

Lol nice reach.

The chiefs destroyed the bills it wasn't even really close all game. Raiders competed with the Chiefs. The built their team to beat us and did it once and then sucked against most other teams.

The book is written on Josh. I bet he completes less than 55 percent of his passes this postseason.

No one cares, no one is scared of the Bills. Your troll game is weak.

Colts are going to upset the Bills. National media on a team junk normally seals their fate.

People wish death all the time on fellow Chiefs fans on here, doing so against a shit stain from the fanbase that's known for table diving isn't really all that bad.

I say, bring it on! I hope like hell we get to face the Billies in the AFCCG. Nothing would be sweeter than knocking those shit stains back to a long, hard, cold Buffalo Winter off-season.

Do you really think this is what Andy Reid is thinking about? Myopia abounds in Bills land.

Hard to dispute. Josh Allen looks like a completely different QB this year. It is also important to note that his QBR was almost identical to Mahomes this year.

And if you want to see improvement and a progression just look at Josh Allen. Every year he's gotten significantly better.

===QB Rating===
2018 67.9
2019 85.3
2020 107.3

We should revisit this article after next weekend

Just to make sure the bills are still in the playoffs

Frank Reich (a.k.a. QB of arguably the Bills most memorable postseason win in their franchise's history) now potentially preventing the Bills from winning their first playoff game in 26 years, in their first home playoff game in 25 years.

That will be rough.

And, given the choice, would Buffalo rather play the Chiefs or anyone else in the NFL?

This is the playoffs, and I understand why you are excited, but it's completely different.


If riding blowout waves led to wins in the playoffs the Chiefs would have stomped the Pats a few years ago.

Still hasn't answered for being a frontrunning trash talking douche. Were you just out of town for 9 years?

This is going to end super well. LMAO

And the Ravens would not have flopped so hard in the playoffs last year. They were dominating the league during the final stretch of the regular season.

Chances are the Bills and Chiefs won’t even play. The teams on a “collision course” never seem to both make it far enough.

Nothing leads to playoff wins.

Past performance does not indicate future results. He said it himself.

Being the best team, with the best QB typically does.

Josh Allen is the best QB. ;)

LMAO

Keep on racking up those regular season awards. :D

The Bills are the 2019 Ravens. QB married to scheme that is confusing most teams.

The problem for Buffalo is that KC is one of the teams that understands how to play Allen.

Allen had less than 100 yards passing with 8 minutes to go in the game.

As Chiefs fans, we were sitting in Bills fans shoes a few years ago. I completely understand their excitement, and it's cool.

The difference is, we KNOW Mahomes will perform when it really matters. The Bills fans have no idea, just speculation.

Well to be fair, a lot of us knew how those Chiefs teams would perform when it really mattered. ;)

We had seen so many QB-lacking teams of ours to realize the real deal when we saw it.

Josh Allen's only TD in postseason play was a trick play on the 1st drive as a WR. After that he got shut out of the end zone by the Steel Curtain defense of the Houston Texans.

I was impressed with Allen's play down the stretch last year. I thought they had something there.

Then he shit down his leg in the worst way in that play-off game.

He's been very good this year, but I can't shake how he just collapsed.

Compare that with how Mahomes handled adversity, coming from behind in 3 straight postseason games to snatch victory.

My money's on Mahomes until shown otherwise.

Bills better do something this year (they won't), because expect some serious regression from Allen once Daboll leaves.

The Bills are frauds and the Chiefs will destroy them!!!!!!!

Yeah I actually see that games as something like 60/40 65/35 myself.


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Why? it's not like he's some genius.

Do you remember our Daboll run offenses?

Just promote your QB coach and get on with your life if your'e McDermott.

I agree. I expect Bills to win but would not be shocked if they lost.

He posted 20 times in 2014 when we beat them in Buffalo. Then he disappeared for 6 years.

Daboll is not the same guy he was. He learned a lot of the college game and that's what he's bringing to Buffalo.

Daboll is more important than people realize
If Buffalo hires a "pro style'" offense OC Allen will look awful.

You realize coaches evolve and improve, right? It's not exactly a secret that Daboll is being given huge credit by pundits, and by Buffalo's own players, for the success this year. He's one of the hotter names in head coaching searches this year.

Promoting your QB coach only works flawlessly somewhere like KC where the true mastermind is Reid, so it doesn't really matter nearly as much who is promoted and gets the OC role. McDermott is a defensive coach, so he absolutely depends on a sharp mind at OC for the offense to reach its full potential.

They have to win 2 playoff games to even meet the Chiefs.

Don't hold your breath. They are rolling, but the playoffs can be a real ****.

that's why you just promote from within. Nothing changes but who calls the actual plays.

You do realize that promoting from within means nothing really changes other than who calls the actual plays right?

Like you can literally keep the same offense. Same terminology. Same system. Same everything except the guy calling the actual plays.

It's already in place.

A bigger mistake would be to scrap it all and start over with a whole new OC and new system, don't you think?

that's why I would just promote the QB coach and change nothing.

The problem there is playbooks get adjusted to. Daboll is the brains and creator. He has created the perfect scheme to minimize Allen's deficiencies (Reading a defense, throwing with anticipation, processing post-snap) while letting Allen's physical tools shine.

NFL teams will start countering better like KC did with messing up his pre snap reads or Tennessee with cloud coverage. Dorsey has never done it before, never called NFL plays.

It's not a guarantee. See Cleveland hiring Kitchens. Kitchens threw out the playback from Haley and used his own based on Arians. Disaster.

Maybe that works, maybe not. If it was always that simple we wouldn't see nearly as many problems with continuity around the league as we do. Just because a position coach "knows" a system doesn't mean they can just seamlessly perform to the same level at calling the plays and designing the offense as their predecessor.

So you mean to say that teams can do things differently which results in different outcomes?

Look, if your options are:

Hire an outside OC, new system, new terminology, new everything

or

promote from within and stay the course

it seems pretty cut and clear.

Don't scrap what's working.

That's all I'm saying.

This. Sure it's possible that Dorsey has success, but it's not guaranteed. Offenses change year to year even with the same coordinator in place. Buffalo's offense would likely look different in 2021 even with Daboll still in place to adjust to what defenses may try to do to counter their success, as you mentioned. If Daboll leaves there is no guarantee that Dorsey has anywhere close to the same level of success designing the plays and calling them on Sundays.

If Bills were playing the Dolphins again this week, after destroying them last week, then last weeks result would matter.

Because it literally just happened.

There is no time for a team to evolve in 6 days.

But the Bills game against the Dolphins in Week 2, has no impact on a game 13 weeks later.

And we saw that happen.

Bills-Dolphins was a 3 point game in September.

The Bills beat them by 30 points in December.

Same teams. Different results.

Teams evolve.

Allen has never had a problem reading defenses or going through progressions.

His issue was anticipation throws and accuracy.

Yea Allen needs to get that monkey off his back before everyone starts hanging off his balls.

That was a complete shit show last year in the playoffs.

There wasn't really a reason from the first game that you could point and say "Buffalo could win the second."

There just wasn't. It was complete domination. Agreed?

LMAO If only CEH had actually fumbled

Ryan Fitzpatrick was the Dolphins starting QB week 2, Tua was their QB yesterday.

Other than that minor detail it was the "same team".

LMAO