Henry McKenna
AFC East Reporter
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills can’t beat Patrick Mahomes. Not in the postseason.
Hear me out: That really ain’t so bad.
Yes, yes, it’s brutal that Buffalo is living the Groundhog Day existence, with perennial divisional-round exits in the postseason. I walked through the hoards of Bills fans at Highmark Stadium after the game Sunday night and heard their frustrations as they headed for the exits following a 27-23 loss. It was bleak.
But there are only two quarterbacks who have ever beaten Mahomes in the postseason: Tom Brady and Joe Burrow.
That’s it — the whole list.
This isn’t to say the Bills can or should give up on beating Mahomes. But they also need to keep perspective.
It’s not time to tear down Buffalo’s roster as we know it. It’s not time to trade receiver Stefon Diggs or even part ways with coach Sean McDermott. Certainly, quarterback Josh Allen isn’t the problem. Though he’s 0-3 against Mahomes in the postseason, Allen might be the biggest solution in overcoming this drought against Mahomes. It’s just a matter of the Bills spending another offseason tinkering around their all-world quarterback. Trying something similar — but different.
The high-level question is: How do the Bills beat the Chiefs in the postseason?
That question then trickles into every one of the team’s smaller decisions. Because you can bet that’s the prism through which GM Brandon Beane is continuing his team-building process: How does this decision help us beat Mahomes? It’s the same question that teams were asking themselves about Brady, Bill Belichick and the Patriots earlier this century. It’s what teams will ask about this Chiefs team for the rest of the 2020s.
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That overarching question of beating Mahomes leads to some smaller ones.
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