Josh Allen discusses his motivation for choosing the Oakland Athletics over the Buffalo Bills.
It turns out that getting the Kansas City Chiefs to Highmark Stadium for a postseason game was not that important after all.
On Sunday in the AFC divisional playoffs, the Buffalo Bills seemingly had the Chiefs just where they wanted them, in a nightmare that seems to go on forever. Despite this, they managed to fall short to Kansas City’s starting quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, who was participating in his first real road playoff game in his six-year career. The score was 27–24.
Josh Allen stated, “Sucks.” “It hurts to lose. It stinks to lose to them or to anybody at home.
Unlike 2020, when the Bills were humiliated 38-24 at Arrowhead Stadium in the AFC Championship Game, this was meant to be different. It was meant to be different than in 2021, when the Bills lost in dramatic and tragic fashion, 42-36 in overtime at Arrowhead in the divisional round, after failing to score in 13 more seconds of regulation.
The Chiefs were heading to Orchard Park, the home of the Bills’ only two postseason losses ever. Buffalo needed to finally overcome the Chiefs, and here was the time. Rather, 2016 and another season have been swept aside without a Super Bowl victory—which is hardly unprecedented in this area, of course.
The teams traded scores back and forth until the Kansas City defense stopped the Bills at the 26-yard line with 1:43 remaining. Tyler Bass then failed to convert a 44-yard field goal attempt that would have knotted the game.
Allen expressed his wish that he hadn’t been placed in that predicament. As a team, you either win or lose. A game isn’t defined by one play. A season is not defined by it. I am aware that there will be others who express that opinion. Once again, we performed a few plays before, and we’re probably singing a different song now, so we have to be there for him.
