The Buffalo Payments met a déjà vu ending to their season Sunday evening, and with the heartbreak got here a touch of controversy.
Buffalo confronted Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs within the AFC Championship Recreation. It marked the fourth Payments-Chiefs playoff conflict up to now 5 years and granted quarterback Josh Allen a redemption shot after swinging and lacking 3 times in three makes an attempt versus Mahomes. And the fourth time didn’t do the trick both.
Within the fourth quarter, Allen and the Payments boldly determined to attempt to convert on fourth-and-inches. With over 13 minutes left within the quarter, Buffalo went with the quarterback sneak, and regardless that the Payments tried to push Allen’s 6-foot-5 body throughout for the primary down, the play name failed.
The referees marked Allen wanting a first-down conversion, which gave Kansas Metropolis the ball on its strategy to a 32-29 win over Buffalo.
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The Payments struggled all through the sport executing quarterback sneaks, one thing Allen gave credit score to the Chiefs for snuffing out.
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“They performed it effectively,” Allen instructed reporters, per CBS Sports activities. “Put their large guys inside and the linebackers have been coming in fairly exhausting and yeah. They performed it effectively.”
It’s not straightforward to inform when taking a look at replays of Allen’s fourth-quarter quarterback sneak try, even in sluggish movement, if he made the road to realize, making it a controversial ruling from the league officers. Allen was stumped 3 times by the Chiefs on quarterback sneak tries, marking essentially the most run stuffs by a protection towards the sneak within the Subsequent Gen Stats period, per the NFL.
The Payments have been due for a Tremendous Bowl look for the previous few years, however their collision with the Mahomes and the Chiefs dynasty halted these plans. Allen completed the evening 22-of-34, throwing for 237 yards with two touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and fought till the very finish. However nonetheless, it wasn’t sufficient.
“It’s not enjoyable,” Allen mentioned. “However to beat the champs, you gotta be the champs and we didn’t do it tonight.”
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Allen and the remainder of Buffalo’s locker room will head into the offseason with their heads hanging in disappointment once more, wrapping up one other elite common season (13-4) that wasn’t backed up when it mattered most.
Kanas Metropolis now advances to tackle Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles for the second time in three years. Mahomes and the Chiefs are searching to make historical past because the NFL’s first staff to three-peat within the Tremendous Bowl period (1966-present) as each groups can have two weeks to arrange earlier than their Feb. 9 showdown in New Orleans.
