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While running back James Cook isn’t prepared to use the refs as an excuse for the Buffalo Bills’ loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC title game, the same cannot be said for head coach Sean McDermott. Speaking to the press this week, McDermott addressed the narrative that the Chiefs got some key controversial calls in their favor.
Following their 32-29 loss to Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in the AFC title game — bringing this current Bills team’s postseason record again the Chiefs to 0-4 — some Bills fans were calling for Sean McDermott’s head, arguing he’s taken this Bills team as far as he can.
In the days since, however, the narrative that the Chiefs got key calls in their favor — particularly a controversial 4th down stop on a Josh Allen QB sneak — has not only not subsided but as grown, with compilations of poor sports being given to the Bills throughout the game going viral on social media.
TRENDING: A 5-MINUTE VIDEO WAS PUT TOGETHER OF THE REFS RULING #BILLS PLAYERS SHORT COMPARED TO WHERE THEY WERE ACTUALLY TACKLED.
Buffalo fans have started sharing this video on social media and are absolutely livid about it. Awful refereeing. pic.twitter.com/Qo0WozgrkR
— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) January 30, 2025
Speaking to the media on Thursday, McDermott revealed that he warned his team in the lead-up to the game that they were “not going to get calls” from the refs at Arrowhead in the AFC title game.
“We went into the game and one of my messages to the team, and this happens from time to time, is you’re going to have to — you’re not going to get calls,” McDermott said at the Bills’ end-of-season press conference on Thursday, January 30.
“We’re not going to get calls. And I think just when you prepare a team, you prepare them ahead of time, mentally, for this is the way it’s going down. And you live with that. That’s not the reason why we lost. You start looking at that, you lose sight of all the things, all the adjustments you can make as a team, or as a person, coach, player, what have you to improve who we are and how we do things. So, there’s going to be some of that, and you have to be able to be above that and play above that.”
With their win over McDermott’s Bills in the AFC Championship game (their seventh straight season in the NFL’s semi-final round), the Chiefs advanced to Super Bowl LIX where they’ll take on Saquon Barkley, Jalen Hurts and the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles as they seek a historic third-straight Super Bowl championship.
Super Bowl LIX will kick off from the Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday, February 9 at 6:30 p.m. EST.
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