Josh Allen gave a heartbreaking verdict connected the Buffalo Bills' nonaccomplishment to the Chiefs aft they missed retired connected the Super Bowl again.
Despite different gutsy effort from Allen and his teammates, who took the two-time defending Super Bowl champions down to the ligament successful the playoffs yet again, they came up short.
After a costly 4th down driblet by Dalton Kincaid, the Bills had to watch Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs tally disconnected the last seconds on a 32-29 triumph successful the AFC title crippled Sunday night.
For the 4th clip successful the past 5 seasons, the Chiefs had ended Buffalo's postseason run.
'To beryllium the champs,' Allen said aft emerging from the locker room, 'you person to bushed the champs.'
The Chiefs volition caput to New Orleans and effort to go the archetypal squad successful NFL past to triumph 3 consecutive Super Bowls.
Josh Allen gave a heartbreaking verdict connected the Buffalo Bills ' nonaccomplishment to the Chiefs connected Sunday
For the Bills, they volition instrumentality to Buffalo regretting different missed accidental astatine their archetypal travel to the large crippled since January 1994.
Allen did astir everything helium could, moving the Bills downfield successful the 2nd half, trying to reply each Kansas City people with 1 of his own.
He finished with 237 yards passing and 2 touchdowns without an interception, and his touchdown propulsion to Curtis Samuel with 3:59 near successful the crippled tied it astatine 29-29.
But the Bills' defense, which was missing Taylor Rapp and Christian Benford connected the backmost extremity owed to injuries, was incapable to marque a play erstwhile it mattered, and Mahomes marched Kansas City wrong scope of Harrison Butker's go-ahead tract goal.
Even then, the Bills had an accidental to win. They took implicit with 3:33 left, and Allen soon picked up a archetypal down with a 13-yard scramble.
But his adjacent 2 passes were batted down astatine the enactment of scrimmage, and a abbreviated propulsion to Amari Cooper connected 3rd down could person been truthful overmuch much if not for a shoestring tackle that brought up 4th down.
As the Chiefs often bash nether antiaircraft coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, they brought a dense blitz, and Allen had to backpedal distant from defenders.
Allen played good and had with 237 yards passing and 2 touchdowns without an interception
But a bold 4th down walk to choky extremity Dalton Kincaid was dropped, ending their chances
He threw up a wobbly supplication heavy downfield, and it was astir answered by choky extremity Kincaid, who conscionable missed hauling successful the heave and keeping the Bills' comeback hopes alive.
The Chiefs took over, ran retired the timepiece and were acceptable to instrumentality their enactment to the Big Easy to look the Philadelphia Eagles.
In the Bills' past 8 games against Kansas City, they person won each 1 successful the regular season, including successful Week 11 this season.
But successful each 4 matchups successful the postseason, it's been the Chiefs near lasting astatine the end.