Kansas City, Missouri – Now we know why it has taken so long. In an unexplored part of the American football universe, we discover in real time why it has been almost impossible to win three championships in a row.
Almost everything has to go well. That is to start. The Kansas City Chiefs brought that statement to the limit once again on Sunday night in the AFC championship.
But what else would you expect? By winning Buffalo 32-29, the Chiefs won for the twelfth time this season in a game of a possession without losing. The streak now is 17 games of this type since last season.
That is what they do. Those are them. They are now contemplating the story within two weeks in New Orleans. A triplet has not occurred in university football in the era of the news service (since 1936). It has not happened in the NFL in the Age of the Super Bowl (since 1966). But as the world already knows, a franchise born in Texas, a long suffering here in the west and now an ongoing dynasty is this Near Star Trekking football.
You know, get to where no franchise has arrived before: three super bowls in a row.
Kansas City is the first team to reach a third consecutive Super Bowl after winning the previous two. This is the fifth Super Bowl of the Chiefs since 2019. The AFC Championship was the seventh since 2018.
That is a dynasty according to any definition. You just don’t try to double what Chiefs have armed lately.
“You think about all the ups and downs you went through during the season,” said the Chiefs coach Andy Reid. “The injuries, all those things. Things have to happen in the right way. The margin of winning or losing in this league is very small. The parity is incredible. This is how the commissioners and the owners wanted it.”
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The victory of the Chiefs broke barriers, records and, in the end, hearts. Ask Buffalo and Campo de Campo Josh Allen, who now have 0-4 mark In the playoffs to Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.
“He did everything that was within his reach,” said his partner Von Miller about Allen.
Of course, it was not enough. Apparently it is never for a franchise that has been without a place in the Super Bowl. They were close, they dominated the third quarter, led at the end of the third quarter and tied six minutes to the end.
Ask Mahomes who has never launched less yards in the regular season and has never won more games.
Ask that old wise Reid, who won the 301 game of his career, to bring him closer to an unprecedented triplet game. Then, the Chiefs coach became a street philosopher.
“This literally reduced to an inch,” Reid said. “Some of these games are heartbreaking and I have many things to tear.”
I wasn’t joking about its weight or inches. The Bills had turned two fourth opportunity attempts into the Yarda 5 of the Chiefs in TouchDowns in the second half.
But the game became in favor of Kansas City at the beginning of the last quarter when Allen was arrested in fourth and 1 at the Yarda 41 of Kansas City. Allen’s onslaught was so close to the marker of the first attempt that a repetition was ordered. He, they failed for what looked like an inch.
The resulting ball loss in the plays prepared the chiefs for a short series of touchdown that put them forward 29-22. They never followed them again.
After a Touchdown pass from Allen in fourth and 4 that tied the marker 29-29 with six remaining minutes, Mohamses led the Chiefs in what is now the mandatory series to win the game.
The 35 -yard field goal by Harrison Butker was the winning score when 3 and a half minutes were missing. When leaving the two -minute warning, the season and the history of the Bills were at stake. In fourth and goal of the defensive coordinator of the Buffalo 47 Chiefs, Steve Spagnuolo, made a load.
Pressure, Allen launched a desperate pass to the closed wing Dalton Kincaid that fell short. Then, the Chiefs bleed the last 1:54 in seven plays.
“I love this defense, man,” said the wing closed Jason Kelce, a secondary player on Sunday at age 35. “In Spags we trust.”
Thanks to the Spags defensive, it has been a team of the Chiefs that did not depend on Mohamses all the time. More importantly, I didn’t have to depend on Mohamses all the time. The Chiefs had broken a NFL record in eight games without losing the ball until the field marshal lost the ball in the first half.
To make this race possible, the franchise chose to retain the defensive Tackle Chris Jones, which made the difference, while developing people such as the former first round of 2022, George Karlaftis, as a defensive wing. Jones is chasing a third ring. Karlaftis is tied in second place in the playoffs in tacle for loss. He was the player who approached Allen more, forcing that last desperate launch.
They changed to the old star receiver by Andre Hopkins. They signed the non -recruited free agent Nikko Remigio. It was Remigio who returned a 44-yard clearance to prepare the score that put the Chiefs forward 21-10.
“Being able to stay at the top is more difficult than getting there,” said Remigio. “They [Chiefs] I have the man of the formula. They know how to do it.
“I think that is the best thing to play for this team. We are never out of the game.”
The centerpiece cannot be overlooked. Mohamses has now had 12 units in his playoff career with his team losing for eight points or less in the last quarter and extra time. The result of those 12 series is: a clearance, six touchdowns of the advantage and five field goals that tied the game.
Yes, everything has had to go for a while.
And the team that part of the country could be tired, does not care what you think at this time.
Do chiefs (and mahomes) receive all calls? Since 2018, Kansas City leads the league in penalty yards.
“If you don’t hate you, you’re not the best,” said corner Trent McDuffie. “My brother was a fan of the Patriots when Tom Brady was there. I used to hate the Patriots. Being in that position of being ‘that’ everyone hates is a great feeling.”
Seventy days ago, the Bills welled the Chiefs their first defeat in the regular season. Allen broke out through the defense of Kansas City that night to achieve the decisive touchdown that at least gave the Bills hope that they had finally surpassed the Chiefs.
The Bills will have another low season to think about that. One more victory is needed in Kansas City to make history in American football, not only in the history of NFL.
Who are we to doubt them?