Later today, the Bills will host the Chiefs in the divisional round of the playoffs. This game will be the third such postseason meeting between the two teams in the last four years. That means that they are already quite familiar with one another.
The main, and most obvious, difference with this particular meeting is that the Bills will get to host the game. Since the 2020 season, the Chiefs and Bills have met six times already, and split. This particular meeting will break the tie.
However, when it comes to the postseason meetings to date, it has been all Kansas City. They are the team that won the two previous playoff games, including the heartbreaking "13 seconds" game that fans and players alike in Buffalo remember only too well. The fact that the Chiefs have also been far and away the most successful franchise in the NFL for the past five or six seasons - since Patrick Mahomes arrives on the scene - is not lost on the Bills, either. They put up a good fight in both prior playoff meetings, and came as close as anybody could get to beating them without actually managing to do it two years ago.
Now, they get another chance. Hopefully, the third time is the charm. And again, this time it will be played up in Buffalo, which at the very least, shouldn't hurt. All six of the previous games were played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. But Arrowhead will be empty and silent today.
I sincerely believe that this is the best chance that the Bills have had to finally get past Mahomes and the Chiefs.
Let's go Buffalo!
Bills and Chiefs have changed plenty since 2021 playoff epic play Alaina Getzenberg Adam Teicher Jan 19, 2024:
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39336627/buffalo-bills-kansas-city-chiefs-2023-nfl-playoffs-rematch-josh-allen-patrick-mahomes
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