Josh Allen knows what’s at stake next week.
The Buffalo Bills triumphed on Sunday over the Baltimore Ravens. Allen’s Bills edged Lamar Jackson’s Ravens 27-25 to advance to the AFC Championship Game.
Once again, the Bills will meet the Kansas City Chiefs in the playoffs. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs have bested the Bills in their previous playoff meetings. They’ve had some memorable encounters, both in the regular season and the postseason.
But next Sunday, none of the past matters, and Allen knows that.
The superstar Bills quarterback discussed the looming matchup with the Chiefs following his team’s big win over the Ravens in the AFC Divisional Round. Allen appeared aware of the stakes and the situation, saying that everything boils down to next week. Nothing else matters.
“The regular season is what the regular season is. It doesn’t matter how well you perform when you get to the playoffs, it doesn’t really matter,” Allen admitted via Pro Football Talk. “We lost 35-10 [to Ravens in the regular season]. It’s hard to beat a team twice. We understand that. We know that. It’s a team that we beat early in the season, but it’s not the same team.”
Allen and the Bills will meet Mahomes in the Chiefs in a heavyweight fight of an AFC Championship Game next Sunday. The Bills are after their first and ever-elusive Super Bowl championship, while Kansas City is out for the NFL’s first-ever three-peat and the first three-peat in North American sports since the New York Yankees (1998-2000).
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