Jason Fitz & Frank Schwab react to Josh Allen’s fourth down scramble for a touchdown in which he sealed the win for the Buffalo Bills in a 30-21 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. Knocking down the previously undefeated Chiefs and earning the tiebreaker over them may have changed the course of the AFC playoff picture and the NFL season.
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Video Transcript
I am still shook.
I am still sitting here thinking about the moment at the end of the game where you felt killer instinct where Josh Allen said it’s fourth down and I’m going to get this.
I am going to score where Josh Allen absolutely.
Trucks people on the way and where Josh Allen gets himself into the end zone, throws the ball down flexes in this way and you just felt it, man.
I know it was only a regular season game, Frank.
We usually shoot the shot coming in, but I’m still so worked up over the fact that we saw Buffalo go in and just manhandle the moment in a way that has me finally feeling like they are built to be able to take down the Chiefs in the playoffs.
Great game, fun game.
Uh a very interesting way for the Chiefs to lose their unbeaten streak because I mean, if you think about the Chiefs and all the ways they won these games sitting at nine and oh, feeling pretty good.
You lose one game and all of a sudden you’re like, wow, the Bills are a game behind us now in the standings.
A loss in a loss column and they have the tiebreaker and probably easier schedule the rest of the way.
So this game that play and specifically might change the entire AFC playoff picture.
We could look back at that game in January and say this is why the Bills are got, have the buy and the number one seed and the can is probably gonna go there and beat them in the playoffs anyway because that’s what they do.
But, but this was the kind of earthshaking moment for the AFC in the playoff picture.
All the other t is the AFC.
Now see the Chiefs vulnerabilities.
It gives them a chance, at least in their minds to maybe knock them off, which they couldn’t do last year.
I thought not just the play itself by Josh Allen, but let’s go back a step.
It’s, I, I thought they were gonna kick a field goal.
I really did.
II, I thought that, I thought that, you know, I understood going for it, but I was like, ok, you’re gonna take the points here, make them drive the whole length of the field score touchdown.
You don’t want to just give them a shot at the field goal.
But I think if you go back to what I’ve harped upon from two weeks ago and Todd Bowles didn’t go for two.
Sean mcdermott had the mentality of we have to slay the dragon right now.
It’s, it’s, it’s now or never, we’re, we are not going to just kick a field goal and say here’s the ball, Patrick Maholmes go and beat us with a touchdown because you know what he probably would have.
He’s Patrick Mahomes, the Bills went for it in that situation, which I thought was very bold and looking back probably the right call.
I understand it completely.
And then Josh Allen just makes the superhero play like it was fantastic to watch him do that and it just makes things more interesting.
And instead, instead of the Bills being basically three games behind the Chiefs and not having a tiebreaker, also, the Bills are right there on their tails.
The Pittsburgh is too.
We’re gonna talk about them.
It, it, it, it opens up the AFC a lot.
Whereas you just keep thinking like, oh, the, the Chiefs are inevitable.
This is just gonna happen.
Now, all of a sudden we’ve seen them lose, didn’t look particularly great in this game and I don’t think they’ve looked particularly great all season.
They, yes, they keep winning games are great for them.
And, and that’s the name of the game, but we knew that they were beatable.
This wasn’t one of those are the 2007 Patriots ever gonna lose.
Type of teams.
This was like, yeah, they’re, they’re gonna lose some time.
It’s probably gonna be a Buffalo because they’re a really tough team.
But I think it’s just, it gives the Bills some confidence.
It gives them some momentum, but now they gotta go take it.
The Bills can’t look, they’ve had, you know, seasons in the past where they have games.
I remember, you know, losing to Urban Meyer Jaguars and stuff where you’re just like, boy, if you could just have that game back, you, you would have been such better shape called playoff time.
The Bills have to go take it now.
They, I’m not saying they got to win out and go 15 and two to get the number one seed.
But maybe like, you don’t want to let this opportunity slip.
You have a real chance to get the one seed be two home games away from a Super Bowl.
If you’re Buffalo, that’s what this game meant.
I, I thought this, this changes the entire scope of the NFL season, that 1/4 down run from Josh Allen.
It was thrilling.
It was awesome.
It was, it was just a really, really fun game.