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Sunday’s game will be a new experience for Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Mahomes & Co. travel to Buffalo to take on the Bills in an AFC Divisional Round game. And in one of the quirkiest facts from this season, it will be the first true “road” playoff game of Mahomes’ seven-year NFL career.
Mahomes has an impressive playoff record of 12-3, but 12 games were at Arrowhead Stadium (10-2). The other three were Super Bowls, where Mahomes and the Chiefs are 2-1.
Kansas City last played a road playoff game on Jan. 16, 2016, a 27-20 divisional loss at New England, about 15 months before Mahomes was drafted with the No. 10 pick in the 2017 NFL Draft.
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For comparison, Tom Brady was 13-2 in his first 15 postseason starts, winning three Super Bowls.
The Chiefs are 2.5-point underdogs and if that holds, it will be the 11th time in Mahomes’ 111 career games that Kansas City is the underdog.
With Mahomes, Kansas City is 8-1-1 against the spread (ATS) as the underdog and an impressive 7-3 straight up.
Mahomes and Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen have split their six head-to-head meetings.
Allen holds a 3-1 edge in the regular season (including a 20-17 win at Kansas City on Dec. 10), and Mahomes is 2-0 in the postseason.
FOX Sports betting analysts Jason McIntyre and Sam “Sammy P” Panayotovich gave their thoughts on the Chiefs-Bills game on “Talk the Line.”
“The Chiefs have a two-day rest advantage because Buffalo’s game was pushed back a day. The Bills also suffered some tough injuries at linebacker and in the secondary against the Steelers,” McIntyre said.
“Some of that is baked into the line (the look ahead was 3), but it feels like the Bills’ six-game hot streak has been a little overdone in hindsight, with the Dallas and Miami wins looking less impressive.”
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Sammy P said to go with your gut instinct.
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