Just like a matchup between Tom Brady and Peyton Manning always managed to deliver, so too does Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen, the modern-day version of the matchup between the two best quarterbacks in the NFL going head to head. Jim Nantz said it best: we’re lucky to have gotten every single one of these games.
He meant CBS airing them specifically and that’s true too, but just getting to watch the two biggest stars in the NFL do battle is a freaking treat and Sunday was no different.
As it has all but one time in the regular-season version of the heavyweight battle, Allen emerged victorious as the Bills won the game 30-21 to open the window for them to steal the No. 1 seed in the AFC. That Allen sealed the deal with a remarkably athletic and eye-popping touchdown run through several Chiefs tacklers to give the Bills a two-score cushion was fitting. It put Buffalo over the 30-point mark, giving them a five-game streak of 30 points or more. It was also their eighth 30-point game of the season, the most in the NFL.
It was a fitting way for Buffalo to win, at home against a loathed rival, with Allen’s signature combo of power and athleticism simply taking over and ending things in a way that Kansas City was powerless to stop.
More importantly, it moved Allen to 4-1 all time against Mahomes … in the regular season. In the playoffs? Well, the record ain’t so great, with Allen and Buffalo staring down an 0-3 record against the Chiefs when elimination season comes around.
Which begs the question: does this game mean anything for Buffalo when the bracket gets built? I’d like to think it does, mainly because the Chiefs aren’t the same Chiefs of the last few years. But then again, maybe they’re identical to 2023, when they had to go on the road to beat the Bills and Ravens and rendered a