It’s Bills vs. Chiefs for the rights to represent the AFC in Super Bowl LIX

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Here. We. Go, Bills Mafia! For the first time since the 2020 NFL playoffs, the Buffalo Bills are still in the mix for a shot at the Super Bowl, with only the AFC Championship Game, and by proxy the Kansas City Chiefs, in their way....

Matt Milano is listed with a hamstring injury, while Taylor Rapp’s is officially noted as a hip and back.

Before Wednesday’s practice, Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott listed three players who would not be full participants in the day’s practice: safety Taylor Rapp, cornerback Christian Benford, and linebacker Matt Milano.

Christian Benford is in concussion protocol due to a hit to the head he took on an onside kick attempt by the Baltimore Ravens in Sunday’s divisional round. The good news for Buffalo is that Benford was a limited participant in the Bills’ first official practice of the week....

Will buying stuff help the Bills win? It can’t hurt, right?

Did you hear the news everyone? The Buffalo Bills are in the middle of a reset/rebuild season. Well it’s late middle, what with them earning the right to face the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game.

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Jackson said he wants Allen to be successful.

Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson have had their careers linked from the beginning, and after Allen’s Buffalo Bills beat Jackson’s Baltimore Ravens in Sunday night’s divisional playoff game, Jackson wanted to make sure Allen got his flowers.

The two quarterbacks came from the same draft class and their careers have been compared ever since. Jackson was an instant sensation while Allen was considered a project. But, now, seven seasons later and the two have been in a season-long standoff for the Associated Press’s MVP award.

Jackson edged out Allen in the AP’s...

Low numbers and low Harm

The Buffalo Bills are riding high after taking down the Baltimore Ravens in the Divisional Round of the NFL Playoffs. While there are certainly a lot of reasons to applaud the Bills, a big one that keeps coming up is the execution on both sides of the ball to play a tight, clean game.

That mistake-free brand of football carried over into the penalty realm with one of Buffalo’s cleanest games of the season.

Standard and Advanced Metrics

Penalty Counts

Both teams came in under the league average in both count and...

Codrington was acquired from the Jets for just a sixth-round pick. Thank you, New York!

All of Bills Mafia must take a moment to thank the New York Jets for trading return specialist Brandon Codrington to the Buffalo Bills back in August for just a sixth-round pick.

Codrington was named to the PFWA All-Rookie Team as the top punt returner, averaging 11.6 yards per return, good for the the 15th-best mark across the NFL.

The 24-year-old North Carolina Central product totaled 38 returns this season—11 kick returns and 27 punt returns. While wide receiver Khalil Shakir has filled in nicely...

Mark Andrews had two huge miscues against the Bills and started receiving death threats

Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrews had a rough game against the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs, dropping a game-tying two-point conversion with 1:33 left on the clock and fumbling in the second half. In addition to some necessary criticism, some have taken to sending Andrews death threats, which we don’t need to say crosses the line.

In response to the harshness of the rhetoric around Andrews, Bills fans have stepped up once again and are donating money to his charity.

Andrews lives with Type 1...

The Buffalo Bills defense has been good, but the Chiefs have been better...

The Buffalo Bills defense has been solid-not-spectacular in the 2024 NFL season and was that way again against the Baltimore Ravens in the Divisional Round. They’re going to have to step up their game in the AFC Championship Game, because unlike the Baltimore Ravens, the Chiefs aren’t going to beat themselves.

In their previous meeting this season, the Bills forced two turnovers — both were interceptions by Patrick Mahomes. One was on KC’s first drive of the game and the other was the game-clincher on the final...

It’s Bills vs Chiefs again, and the matchup is as close as can be.

The Kansas Chiefs have consistently gotten the better of the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs.

The Bills are headed to Arrowhead Stadium once again for the AFC Championship Game in an attempt to exorcise some demons, and demons they have. The two-time defending champions have single-handedly helped keep the “Buffalo can’t get the job done” narrative alive over the last few years, defeating the Bills every time they’ve faced them in the playoffs during the Josh Allen era.

But NFL on Prime just casually dropped one...

Allen and Brady trail Steve Young, but by how much?

During the Buffalo Bills’ divisional round playoff win over the Baltimore Ravens this past Sunday, quarterback Josh Allen scored a pair of rushing touchdowns to give the offense an early advantage. Allen’s two jaunts to paydirt brought his playoff rushing touchdown total to seven, which ties him with Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady.

It took Brady 48 playoff games over a span of 20 NFL seasons to reach seven rushing touchdowns. Allen, meanwhile, needed just 12 games over a span of six NFL seasons.

Ahead of both Allen and...

Benford is in concussion protocol, Rapp is day-to-day, and where did Matt Milano go at the end of the game?

On Monday, after the Buffalo Bills defeated the Baltimore Ravens 27-25 for the right to head west to face the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game, head coach Sean McDermott met with members of the media. The first order of business: an injury update.

Safety Taylor Rapp left Sunday’s game with a hip injury. After colliding with Damar Hamlin on a tackle, Rapp went to the blue medical tent and later was seen walking gingerly before boarding a...

The Bills advanced to the AFC Championship Game, which also means some analysts have taken to maintaining tired narratives

I don’t expect intellectual honesty from national American professional football pundits. Driven primarily by their network’s incessant need to generate traffic at the expense of quality conversation, NFL “analysts” are made up in large part by take artists who offer no substantive benefit to the conversation.

Platforms such as ESPN, Fox Sports, and others have a supply and demand issue: they want to occupy 24 hours a day of takes, but don’t have the roster of thoughtful commentators necessary to fill...