The Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills have faced each other nine times since the 2020 season. The Chiefs have won five, and the Bills have won four. Buffalo, however, has lost every game that mattered.
The Bills are 4-1 vs the Chiefs in the regular season since 2020. The Chiefs are 4-0, though, in the postseason vs the Bills in that same time frame. The head-to-head record between these teams indicates that there is a rivalry brewing between the two teams.
The Bills need to win a few playoff games against the Chiefs for that statement to have more merit. Since Josh Allen was viewed as a top-five quarterback, he has suffered five playoff losses, and four of them have come against the team in Arrowhead.
The worst part of Bills fans is that the games are so close every year, and the rug gets pulled right underneath them without fail.
The playoff game between KC and Buffalo in 2021 was a Kansas City rout. The Chiefs won that game 38-24, and the final score was not indicative of how dominant KC was. The meetings on the big stage since then have been nothing but heartbreak for Bills Mafia.
The first and most notable one was the 2022 playoff game between the two in the Divisional round. It was an offensive classic from both teams. Mahomes and Allen combined for eight total touchdowns, over 800 total yards, and no turnovers.
The Bills found themselves down 33-29 with around 17 seconds on the Chiefs’ 19-yard line. It was a fourth down, so it was do or die. Allen then threw what looked like the game-winning touchdown to Gabe Davis, as that put them up 36-33 with just 13 seconds left.
All the Bills needed to do was keep the Chiefs away from field goal range in 13 seconds. They failed as Mahomes found Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce in back-to-back plays to get the ball to the Bills’ 31-yard line. A few moments later, Harrison Butker hit a 48-yard field goal to force overtime, and the rest is history. The Chiefs would win the coin toss and go on to score and win the game.
That game forced the postseason overtime rules to change, where now both teams have an opportunity to possess the ball no matter what.
Their next outing would be in 2024. It was another hard-fought back-and-forth game between the two teams. The Bills trailed 27-24 and were driving deep into KC territory. Buffalo was on the KC 26 with a chance to kick the field goal to tie it up.
The Bills’ kicker, Tyler Bass, had a 43-yard field goal to equalize it to 27-27 and missed it wide right. The Bills are no stranger to missing kicks wide right in big moments. In Super Bowl 25, they were down 20-19 to the Giants with eight seconds to go. The kick was 48 yards, and the football sailed to the right side of the uprights.
Another excruciating loss, not just because of the miss, but how it happened. It was Deja vu.
Their most recent meeting was early this year. The Bills and Chiefs were once again part of an all-time classic. Mahomes and Allen were showing why they were the two best quarterbacks in the league. The score was 32-29 Chiefs with 3:33 remaining in the fourth.
This was going to be the moment that Allen righted his wrongs from all the previous playoff losses to this team. In the same year he won his first MVP, he had a chance to rewrite the playoff script.
With two minutes left, the Bills faced fourth and five on their 47-yard line. The Chiefs sent the blitz, Allen retreated, and he threw a pretty floater to Dalton Kincaid, who was on the Chiefs 35 35-yard line…and he dropped it. The ball hit Kincaid’s hands, and he flat-out dropped it. The Chiefs took over on offense, and it was lights out for the Bills.
The story was always the same. The game would be close from start to finish, but one team was flawless in the clutch while the other crumbled. This transpired time and time again. From 13 seconds to wide right to 3:33, it’s been a rough half-decade for Bills fans.
The Chiefs and Bills show the difference between a great team and the gold standard. The Bills are a great team, but it takes all 60 minutes of football to knock off the Champs. This is eerily similar to the Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Lakers matchups from 2022-2024.
The Lakers were a very good team, and the games between the two teams were always close. The Nuggets, though, would thoroughly outplay them in the clutch and come away victorious most of the time. In the tw playoff series between the two teams, Denver won eight of the nine games.
Will the Bills every get over the hump? They have to at some point, right?
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