Let’s get ready to ruuuuuuuumble!
The Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs face off in the most hotly anticipated bout thus far in the 2021 postseason.
Arrowhead Stadium ran out of fireworks last week. Hopefully, they’ve fully re-upped their stock because there should be a show Sunday night. A rematch of last season’s AFC Championship Game, won by the Chiefs, 38-24, promises a closer battle this time around. The Bills trounced the Chiefs, 38-20, in Week 5 in K.C., foreshadowing a potential shootout.
Buffalo and Kansas City are coming off blowout wins during Super Wild Card Weekend. Sean McDermott’s Bills handed Bill Belichick the most embarrassing postseason loss of his tenure in New England, 47-17, while Andy Reid’s Chiefs sent Ben Roethlisberger into retirement with a 42-21 shellacking of the Steelers.
Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes each made NFL history last weekend. Allen became the first QB with an 80-plus completion percentage, five touchdown passes and 50-plus rushing yards in any game. While Mahomes’ five TD passes in 11:31 of game time were the fastest ever in a playoff game, per NFL Research.
Sunday also marks the first time in NFL history two quarterbacks will faceoff after each threw for five TDs the previous week.
Both teams enter the Divisional Round at their best. A collision course of epic proportions is on tap.
Here are four things to watch for when the Chiefs play host to the Bills:
- Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen. There is no need to bury the lead. The world is tuning in to watch the superstar quarterbacks go punch for punch. Allen has been stupendous of late, culminating in last week’s perfect outing in which he led TD drives on all seven of the Bills’ non-kneel possessions. There is no slowing Buffalo’s offense when Allen is playing as he did against the Pats. The QB was perfect on passes of 10-plus air yards, including four such TDs (most passing TDs in any game in Next Gen Stats era on downfield passes without an incompletion,…