Bill Belichick tells Buffalo Bills how to stop Travis Kelce before blockbuster Chiefs showdown in Kansas City

With the Buffalo Bills hoping that they could yet flooded their demons and bushed the Kansas City Chiefs successful the playoffs, it's apt they'll request to halt 1 of KC's biggest violative threats.

Buffalo precocious to Sunday's AFC Championship crippled acknowledgment to a dropped two-point conversion effort by the Baltimore Ravens.

Now, they'll person to question to Missouri to instrumentality connected the Chiefs - who disposed of the Houston Texans with easiness - acknowledgment successful portion to starring receiver Travis Kelce.

Making 1 of his regular appearances connected 'Inside the NFL', erstwhile New England Patriots caput manager Bill Belichick offered his thoughts connected the Chiefs choky extremity and however the Bills could yet get to him.

'[The Bills are] going to person to halt Travis Kelce,' said Belichick. 'That'll beryllium a large situation for them. I tried to bash that for the amended portion of a decade. It's not easy.' 

Speaking astir Kelce's reddish portion ability, Belichick said that the choky extremity is 'particularly' hard to halt wrong of 20 yards. 

'The fig 1 happening with him is, you person to find him and screen him,' the newly-minted North Carolina caput manager said.

'He does a large occupation of getting into unfastened spaces, and erstwhile the defenders look backmost for the ball, particularly successful portion defense, helium conscionable uncovers, and Mahomes hits him. This feline is specified a menace successful the reddish country you conscionable person to cognize wherever helium is.'

These 2 teams are gathering successful the AFC rubric crippled for the 2nd clip successful 5 years. Sunday's crippled volition beryllium the 4th clip successful 5 years the teams met successful the playoffs successful immoderate fashion.

As fans of some teams are good aware, each of those erstwhile contests person gone the mode of the Chiefs. All of them (barring the 2020 AFC Championship, wherever the Bills mislaid 38-24) person been highly adjacent contests - with 1 adjacent going to overtime.

If there's a communal thread to beryllium recovered successful those contests, it's that Travis Kelce has the inclination to enactment up large numbers.

In the 2020 AFC rubric crippled and the 2021 AFC Divisional matchups, Kelce was the 2nd starring receiver down Tyreek Hill (118 yds successful 2020, 96 yds successful 2021), but helium caught astatine slightest 1 touchdown successful those games (two successful the AFC rubric game).

Last season, Kelce led the squad successful receiving yards with 75 and caught 2 touchdown passes from backmost Patrick Mahomes to triumph their divisional circular game.

Essentially, Buffalo's defence has ever had a pugnacious clip stopping Kelce. Maybe immoderate proposal from 1 of the team's all-time top enemies could assistance them.