![]() ![]() Imagine if that pick had been at a defensive need spot-at safety, maybe, where Antoine Winfield Jr., went 13 picks after Edwards-Helaire, or at corner, where Trevon Diggs went 19 picks after the runner. I go back to draft day 2020 and think of the Clyde Edwards-Helaire pick. When Hill catches seven for 63, with a long of 17, as he did Sunday night, it’s a win for the defense, particularly with no other deep threat to scare the D.Īnd that Kansas City defense. Interesting to watch the frustration of the Andy Reid offense, with the Bills’ two-deep scheme taking Tyreek Hill out of the deep-passing game. KC’s two games out, but I count the tiebreaker as a half-game, and the Chargers own the Week 3 head-to-head win at Arrowhead. Now alone in last place in the strong AFC West-I would have said “powerhouse AFC West” except I saw Denver and Las Vegas play Sunday-and 2.5 games behind the Chargers, I see trouble. The worst thing you can do after a game like Buffalo-Kansas City is think too much.īut I’m going to think a little bit about what we saw and where these two power teams stand. We’ll start in the drenched Midwest, with a changing of the guard. Safety Budda Baker thinks he knows why, and he’ll tell you. Has there been a Sunday with 12 missed PATs recently, by the way? The NFL has one unbeaten left, 5-0 Arizona. And in L.A., two missed extra points nearly cost the Chargers a 47-42 win over Cleveland. You’ll never see what you saw in Cincinnati again-five missed field goals in eight minutes of the fourth quarter and overtime. On this given Sunday, it was a rollicking day for many of them. On a given Sunday five teams can stake a logical claim to NFC superiority-the 5-0 Cardinals then Dallas, Green Bay, Tampa Bay and the Rams, all 4-1. ![]() The AFC’s has two explosive front-runners this morning-the Bills and Chargers, both 4-1. “When we get to the end of the season,” Cris Collinsworth said on NBC, “we’re gonna look back on this night and say, ‘This is the night a lot of things changed in the AFC.” The Lead: Buffalo Bills This looked like a changing of the guard in the AFC more than just a Week 5 game. The Chiefs looked thin on offense and absolutely threadbare on defense. And finally, inexorably, he outplayed the man who will be his rival for years in the AFC, Patrick Mahomes. But he didn’t need to do it, and he didn’t do it, and he still was the man of the match. There’s your example from Buffalo’s conference-changing 38-20 win over Kansas City: Maybe Allen’s the bull in the china shop last year, and maybe he makes it into the end zone and spikes the ball hard and screams at the sky. Immediately I thought of Allen’s words to me in training camp when I asked why this year would be different, why there wouldn’t be reruns of the 14-point and 8-point losses to Kansas City last year. The insurance score came two plays later. But he didn’t.Īt the 12-yard line, pursuit really not close, Allen pulled up and slid on the wet turf. It looked like the 237-pound Allen could bull his way through the sparse coverage in the middle of the field and make it all the way for a touchdown. Allen took off running up the middle, his receivers covered on the outside. Bills up 31-20 at the Chiefs’ 24-yard line, driving for insurance, seven minutes left in the game. If you stayed up till midnight, you saw it. There was a play Sunday night in the rain in Kansas City that encapsulated the 2021 version of Josh Allen perfectly.
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