Martin Rogers
FOX Sports Insider
It is still the scariest story in football because it inevitably ends with crushed dreams.
Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs offense stand in the way of everyone and everything daring to dream of Super Bowl glory. It has been that way for the past five years, and it is that way still. Forget the careless talk of a “down” year after six regular-season losses. Those numbers don’t matter.
Sure, out of the four teams remaining with ring ceremony aspirations, Kansas City has the most interceptions, the fewest passing yards by attempt, the fewest total touchdowns, the second-fewest passing touchdowns, and the second-fewest passing yards.
Are those figures supposed to ease the tortured sensibilities of Buffalo Bills fans, who can wallow in “wide right” agony forever if they wish, but know deep down that they lost again because Mahomes and company found a way to be marginally better than Josh Allen and his crew, like they always do this time of year?
Mahomes is the most destructive force in modern football, inflicting postseason pain wherever he goes. Bills supporters ultimately didn’t know whether to cry because of Mahomes or to throw snowballs in his direction at Highmark Stadium. They wound up doing both.
Yet while it is those from Western New York who have suffered most frequently and most gallingly at his hands, theirs is not a lonely fate. The Chiefs’ prolonged stretch — six consecutive AFC Championship game appearances and counting — has many victims, cutting off all kinds of aspirations; big or small, foolishly confident or with nervous fingers crossed.
Winning 13 out of 16 playoff games required the cold-blooded ability to perform when it matters the most. All those opportunities taken by the Chiefs mean an equal number of chances snuffed out for someone else.
All those moments when, for the other team and the other QB, it was supposed to be destiny,…
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Publish date : 2024-01-22 17:48:45
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