Chiefs – Bills (42-36 ap): Kansas City resists in a legendary end to the game
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Chiefs – Bills (42-36 ap): Kansas City resists in a legendary end to the game

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Kansas City Chiefs – Buffalo Bills : 42-36 a.p.

What a game ! We thought we had seen it all in this divisional weekend, but Kansas City and Buffalo had saved the best for last. A legendary battle for a place in the conference final. If the whole game was crazy intense, it got even more excited in the last minutes with three changes of leader, 25 points scored in 120 seconds, a tie and an overtime victory.

And even if Josh Allen (27/37, 329 yards and 4 TDs + 11 races and 68 yards) and Gabriel Davis (8 receptions, 201 yards and 4 TDs) tried everything, Patrick Mahomes (33/44, 378 yards and 3 TDs + 7 races, 69 yards and 1 TD) will remain as the big man of this evening.

The key moment: the equalization drive

There would be so much to come out in this encounter. There are maybe ten in the last two minutes alone, but the craziest moment certainly came during the final drive of regulation time. Buffalo has just regained the lead for the second time in less than a minute. Kansas City is led by three less (33-36) and Patrick Mahomes has only 13 seconds left to put his team in a field goal position.

In two passes (19 yards for Hill and 25 for Kelce), the quarterback managed the impossible: gain 44 yards and keep his team alive. It then remains for Harrison Butker to ensure the kick from 49 yards. He who has already missed two attempts in this meeting. The kicker does not shake this time and sends the two teams into overtime. Patrick Mahomes has just written his legend a little more.

The movie of the game

We expected an offensive mano to mano in this meeting and it didn’t take long to see the fireworks start. From the first drive, the Bills cross the entire field for a touchdown from Devin Singletary on a 1-yard run (0-7). And as neither of the two teams wants to let its adversary take the lead, each time one of the two formations attacks, the other will respond tit for tat.

13 games, 71 yards, 7 minutes and 7 points for the Bills? Either, the Chiefs will continue with 11 games, 74 yards, nearly 6 minutes and 7 points in turn on a touchdown on the run from Patrick Mahomes on 8 yards (7-7). And when the locals pass in front with an 86-yard drive and a 2-yard pass from Mahomes towards the in-goal for Byron Pringles (14-7), Buffalo is not hiding. In the process, the Bills will in turn equalize. This time the air will be the preferred track with an offering of 18 yards from Josh Allen for Gabriel Davis. The beginning of a historic connection.

At the break, after a missed field goal from Harrison Butker, the two teams were unable to decide (14-14). Symbol of this first half hour which leaves Buffalo and Kansas City back to back, the statistics of the quarterbacks. 113 passing yards for Josh Allen, 114 for Mahomes. 49 yards on the ground for the Chief, 45 for the Buffalo player. Very clever whoever at that time can find the winner of this meeting.

The return from the locker room is rather favorable to the Chiefs. Despite another touchdown exchange, Mecole Hardman on one side and Gabriel Davis on the other, Kansas City took off with field goals. And as the last two minutes approach, the locals lead by 5 points. This is when everything we have just seen (and therefore everything we have just written, and therefore everything you have just read) completely shatters. The match simply enters another dimension. A dimension where only American football can bring us.

The two teams will score 25 points and cover 269 yards in less than two minutes. Never seen. Josh Allen is first Gabriel Davis on 27 yards. Before alerting him again for the two-point conversion (26-29). Patrick Mahomes answers him with a 64-yard pass for Tyreek Hill (33-29). Not a problem for Josh Allen who insists with Davis thanks to a pass from 19 yards (36-33). Mahomes then did not say his last word and traveled 44 yards in 13 seconds to allow Butker to equalize. Do you think the summary is a little hasty? Everything seems to have happened at this speed in this match as these actions were crazier than each other.

On the other hand, we can regret that in overtime the Bills did not have the opportunity to respond in attack. Kansas City indeed wins the toss and like what the Patriots did to them three years ago in the conference final, they left their opponent no chance. A new 75-yard drive perfectly orchestrated by Patrick Mahomes and the quarterback ends this match with an 8-yard pass for Travis Kelce (7 receptions, 96 yards and 1 TD)

The Chiefs finally win and we can go to bed with stars in our eyes. Difficult to sleep after such an encounter…

The MVP of the game: Patrick Mahomes

Sometimes criticized this season, not always at his best, Patrick Mahomes has just responded in the most beautiful way during this Divisional Round. The space of a meeting we found the quarterback who had tumbled into the league like a UFO. It’s simple, he is a player without equal in the NFL.

In this meeting, he first brought his team to the ground (69 yards and a touchdown), before continuing in the air. His first touchdown thrown, just before halftime, alone represents the performance of the 2018 MVP: a game that seemed to come to nothing and which ended in the in-goal thanks to the physical and technical qualities of the quarterback.

But then what about the sequel that made us switch into the unreal. Three drives at the end of the match (overtime included) dazzling. There was this pass of 64 yards for Hill (11 receptions, 150 yards and 1 TD), then this offensive series of 13 seconds and finally 75 yards traveled during the extra period. In short, this match will remain etched in the quarterback’s career as one of his best performances.

The stat: 201 yards and 4 TDs

Here is the stat line of Gabriel Davis in this meeting. Helped by Josh Allen, the receiver literally tried everything to qualify his team. The two men had started the undermining work in the first period, but above all they were clutch as rarely in the money-time.

Twice, they connected in the end-zone in the last two minutes of the game. Each time Buffalo was behind, each time Buffalo needed a touchdown and each time Buffalo was able to count on its Josh Allen-Gabriel Davis duo.

Certainly the victory is not at the rendezvous, but these two men have nothing to reproach themselves for as they raised their level of play when it was necessary.

The following

For the fourth consecutive time, the Chiefs reached the conference final. Kansas City still rules the roost in the AFC and will welcome a new opponent next week: Cincinnati. Facing the Bengals, Andy Reid’s men will try to join their third Super Bowl in a row.

For the Bills, this loss is perhaps even more cruel than that of last season. Last year, he never believed it, while here they have seen each other in the conference finals on several occasions. We will have to digest again and go back to work to finally hope to bring down these Chiefs.

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