![]() “All you can do is play the rules the way the rules are explained. “It worked out well for us this time, but sometimes whenever you got two teams going back and forth like you’re going, it kind of stinks that you don’t get to see the other guy go,” Mahomes said. New England won and quarterback Tom Brady wrapped the game on the first drive. Mahomes completed two chunk plays to set up kicker Harrison Butker’s 39-yard field goal attempt just 31 seconds later. That year, the Patriots scored a touchdown to take a 31-28 lead with 39 seconds to play. Eerily similar to Sunday night’s game, the Chiefs had lost their lead in the final minute of regulation. Just three years had elapsed since they carried the Patriots to overtime in the AFC championship game. But Kansas City nonetheless understood how capricious the rules can feel. ![]() The coin-toss relevance favored the Chiefs in a game of prolific offenses and struggling defenses. Bills quarterback Josh Allen, to his misfortune, proclaimed “tails.” The Bills also, as the visiting team, had the chance to select heads or tails for the overtime coin toss. The Bills had chances to win late, scoring 15 points in the final 2 minutes of regulation and even mounting a lead with 13 seconds left in the fourth quarter. It also ended Buffalo’s special season, the Bills’ playoff chances extinguished at Arrowhead Stadium for a second straight year. The overtime drive was sufficient to seal the Chiefs’ win and their fourth straight AFC championship game berth. Sunday, the Chiefs engineered an eight-play touchdown drive in overtime featuring six-of-six passing by Patrick Mahomes. “The exception: if the team that gets the ball first scores a touchdown on the opening possession.” “Each team must possess, or have the opportunity to possess, the ball,” the NFL rule book reads. “Both offenses were hitting up and down the field just about all night.”īuffalo’s offense never got the field in overtime.īecause the Bills lost the coin toss and gave up a touchdown. “It was a situation where whoever had the ball last was going to win that game,” the Chiefs Pro Bowl tight end said after Kansas City edged Buffalo 42-36 in an AFC divisional-round matchup. Travis Kelce scored the game-winning touchdown in overtime. ![]() Watch Video: AFC Divisional round overreactions: Bills-Chiefs instant classic caps off historic weekend ![]()
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