Can Bills make the playoffs if they beat the Chiefs on Sunday?

The Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs are accustomed to playing each other with the NFL spotlight shining squarely upon them.

There was that AFC championship game a few years ago, when Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen and Kansas City counterpart Patrick Mahomes went toe-to-toe for four quarters. And the divisional playoff game the following season, when Mahomes needed a mere 13 seconds to march his team into range for a tying field goal, then led the Chiefs to victory in overtime.

Even their games the past two Octobers have been must-see TV featuring two of the league’s best teams.

Yet there is a different feel surrounding the Bills’ return to Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday.

Buffalo is muddling along at 6-6 and outside the current playoff picture, the first time since Allen’s rookie season in 2018 that the Bills were .500 or worse at this point in the season. 

Yet the Bills are still in contention for now in a tight playoff race, just one game behind the 7-5 Indianapolis Colts for the seventh and final seed in the AFC bracket. If Buffalo can make it in, Craig Carton believes the Bills have everything they need to make a run over the other AFC wild-card teams.

“The Buffalo Bills right now would beat the Steelers by 30,” Carton said on Thursday’s “The Carton Show.” “The Buffalo Bills right now would beat the Cleveland Browns by 30. They’re playoff teams, and the Bills are not. That’s crazy. … If the Buffalo Bills somehow get in as a wild-card team, they’re going to the AFC Championship Game. It’s a big, fat ‘if,’ but if the Bills get in, they will get in as one of the hottest teams in football.”

“We understand what’s in front of us and what situation we’re in,” Allen said, “but we’ve got a lot of guys in this locker room that are very excited to be back, and we have a very good feeling in this locker room right now for what we need to do.”

The Bills are in their current predicament largely because of their inability to win close games. Each of their losses have…

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Publish date : 2023-12-08 00:03:28

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