the Bills Staying at a frustrating level of forgetfulness in football: A great team is always in the normal season, but it is always unable to exceed the level Heads In the qualifiers.
The defeat on Sunday 32-29 in the AFC Championship was the fourth time during the five years that Buffalo lost to Kansas City in the qualifiers, as three of those four losses came at Archid Stadium. The age of 61-22 since the beginning of 2020-The Chiefs is the only team to achieve more victories in that period-but Bils has not even been able to get the Super Bowl appearance from that tour. Over those five years, they were 0-4 in the qualifiers against leaders and 7-0 against anyone else.
Thus, the story will be the same: How can Bavalo and Josh Allen He crossed the city of Kansas City and Patrick Maqoum? The Bills team managed to overcome Chiefs in the normal season, but they cannot do that when it is more important. They were painfully close-a tie match in the fourth quarter on Sunday, advanced in the fourth quarter in both the two previous seasons, and lost 27-24 last year and 42-36 in additional time in the qualifiers after the 2022 season.
Bovalo won five consecutive titles in the department, and has owned the East Asian Championship since he left Tom Brady PatriotismBut this success did not rise to the level of Super Bowl. The Bills team won 48 games in the normal season in the past four years, and when they went to four consecutive Super Bulls matches from 1990 to 1993, they won 49 games during the four -year period.
So, the next season will again be just an introduction to the inevitable collision with the leaders in January. Can Pavlu win enough matches to secure the first place in the AFC, so that the confrontation is held in Buffalo and not in Kansas City? In order to overcome the Chiefs and reach Super Bowl, Allen’s legacy with Buffalo will be completely spent in Maahomes.
While trying again in 2025, Bills will also have a surplus in the draft choices, which are supposed to allow them to either formulate a deep class of beginners or the package choices to upgrade as they want. They have an additional option in the second round of trading recipients Stefon Digz to TexasAdditional choices in the fourth and sixth round choices of other deals, and two compensatory draft choices, both of which are probably after the fifth round, for the loss of two free agents last year in the reception device Gabi Davis And the rush of the hasty Leonard Floyd.
They will need to rely on the draft in order to influence it because it is unlikely to have a large area of the maximum significant signatures in the Free Agency. They have exceeded the maximum expected salaries for 2025 at the present time, but they can restructure contracts and reduce players or circulate them to create an additional space for the maximum.
As for the free agents, only two must be kept as expensive: the recipient Amari CooperWhich was obtained from Bruns In the middle of the season, Cornerback A messenger sat down. safety Damar Hamlin He is also a free agent, as is the recipient Mac HolinsWhich fell in the Sunday match. Running back James CookWho led the American Football Association with 16 rapid decline last season, he enters the last year of its novice contract and is now qualified to obtain a profitable extension.
The Bills will again have to face the first place schedule – both the Super Bowl and Chiefs teams and EaglesHe will play in Boufalo in the normal season. But the schedule also gives the Bills team an easy division in NFC South, a potential sweep of four games, although they will likely face a difficult division with multiple separation teams in AFC North.
Bovalo won at least 11 games for five consecutive years, which is a rare and sustainable level of success in the normal season, but so that the Bills team can achieve the same kind of winning in January, the privilege will continue to fail to achieve the first super -championship. championship. Not so long ago, this privilege had been 25 years ago without one victory in a separate match before winning one victory in 2020.
But at this point, this will not be reduced by the pain of the loyal team fans, especially watching the presidents as they go to Super Bowl year after year.
Greg Oman is a NFL correspondent for Fox SPORTS. He previously spent a decade coverage Pirate to Tampa Bay Times and Sports. You can follow it on Twitter on @Grieglan.
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