.louisahthomas recaps last night’s playoff between the Chiefs and the Bills—“one of the rarest and most ridiculous of games,” she writes.
When a quarterback whose team is trailing by five, with less than two minutes to play in the fourth quarter, dances in the pocket and then throws a dart twenty-seven yards to an open receiver in the end zone, as the Buffalo Bills’ quarterback, Josh Allen, did on Sunday night, it is rare and ridiculous to hear some tiny voice in the back of your head saying, “Maybe he should have scrambled for a first down there instead of going straight for the score.
And so it happened: Mahomes found the receiver Tyreek Hill up the field, and Hill did the rest, flashing a peace sign as he rushed past the Bills’ defense, his legs a blur. Buffalo, now down by four, had just over a minute to counter, and seventy-five yards to go. The Chiefs had Mahomes, but the Bills had Allen, and Allen had been matching Mahomes all day. Whereas Mahomes wins with flair, imagination, and charisma, Allen dominates with his size, his legs, and his bruising strength.
That should have ended things: no one can beat the clock. Last week, the Cowboys had one second more, and their quarterback, Dak Prescott, couldn’t even get off a successful quarterback draw. It seemed clear that the Bills should squib the kick and burn the clock, but they chose, instead, to kick the ball through the end zone, pinning the Chiefs farther back but erasing no time at all. But bad field position is notional when you have Patrick Mahomes.
Still, a more satisfying finish, at least for those of us not rooting specially for either the Bills or the Chiefs, would have been no finish at all. In a better world, the game would have persisted, in ever wilder fashion. At some point, exhaustion would have set in—for me, at least, if not for the two quarterbacks. At some point, there might have been an interception, or a fumble, or a devastating sack. Games end. Clocks run out. There are winners and losers.
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