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🏈 Good morning to everyone but especially …
THE TEAMS HEADING TO THE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES
There will be a day when you should doubt Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. I promise. But it’s not coming any time soon.
Tyler Bass missed — hide your eyes, Bills fans — wide right with under two minutes left, and Mahomes came away with the victory after the first road playoff game of his career, a heart-pounding, back-and-forth 27-24 triumph for the Chiefs in Buffalo.
It was a classic quarterback battle between Mahomes and Josh Allen through three quarters, with Buffalo leading 24-20 and only one punt combined with 15 minutes to go.Isaiah Pacheco scored on the second play of the fourth quarter to set up what looked like another wild finish. And things definitely got bizarre from there. Damar Hamlin got stuffed on an ill-conceived fake punt, but then Mecole Hardman fumbled through the end zone to give the ball right back.The Bills, mercifully given new life, went three-and-out on the ensuing drive before…..
