Another year of heartbreak for Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills.
On Sunday night, the Buffalo Bills were ousted from the playoffs by Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs for the fourth time in the past five seasons. While the MVP candidate, Allen, played good enough to win (22 for 34, 237 yards, two touchdowns), the brilliance of Mahomes once again proved to be too much for the Bills defense to overcome. The three-time Super Bowl champion Mahomes threw for 245 yards and a touchdown while adding 43 yards and two touchdowns on the ground to propel the Chiefs to the 32-29 victory.
When it comes to Allen and the Bills' post-season shortcomings, ESPN analyst, Stephen A. Smith believes it has less to do with Allen and more to do with the sheer excellence of Mahomes.
"He's a terrific quarterback, he's special...his crime is that he's not Patrick Mahomes, and that he can't be Patrick Mahomes," Smith admitted during ESPN's 'First Take' show. "Ya know, there's a lot of, ya know, I love boxing, and there's a lot of great, great fighters but you know what? You couldn't beat Floyd Mayweather, you couldn't beat Marvin Hagler, there's certain cats you just couldn't beat. So, when you look at Josh Allen, I think the thing that has to be so painful for him, is that there has been several occasions where the effort that he put in, would've beaten anybody else. But, the one person you need to beat, you can't. You are winless in the post-season on four separate occasions against Patrick Mahomes...that's bad in of itself, but the fact that ya'll are in the same conference means you haven't had the opportunity to taste a Super Bowl experience and what it feels like because that cat keeps standing in your way...that's what that is."
Mahomes and the Chiefs look to be the first team in NFL history to win three-straight Super Bowls when they face the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans on Sunday, February 9 (6:30 p.m. EDT/3:30 p.m. PDT) on FOX.
