Recapping Kansas City's Path to 5th Super Bowl in 7 Years

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00:00You can bemoan the fact that KC is the same old story.

00:04Oh, here these guys go again to play for a Super Bowl.

00:07You can start your conspiracy theories about the referees

00:10and the officiating, whatever you want.

00:12Kansas City makes the plays when it matters most,

00:15and it is why KC will play in its fifth Super Bowl

00:19in the last seven seasons.

00:21It is why Kansas City has ousted Buffalo from the postseason

00:26four times in the last five years.

00:28Donnie, we talked about these familiar foes

00:30in these significant stages basically every season

00:34for the last half decade

00:35when the Buffalo Bills have won the AFC East.

00:38They have been unable to surpass

00:41Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City,

00:44and once again, you see it there.

00:46The last three matchups between these two

00:49decided in the fourth quarter and or overtime

00:52decided by six points or fewer.

00:56It is the same story.

00:57Buffalo unable to get past Kansas City,

01:01and it's now history for the Chiefs,

01:03becoming the first team in NFL history

01:05to eliminate the same opponent

01:07four times in a five-year span.

01:10It's crazy, too, because you have Buffalo

01:12with the success in the regular season

01:14against the Kansas City Chiefs, but when everything matters,

01:16they just can't get over the hump,

01:18and there will be slander today

01:20on the Mar Jacksons of the world and the Josh Allens,

01:22but I don't participate in that.

01:24Like, I didn't watch that game.

01:25Like, man, Josh Allen, even, trust me on this, though.

01:28He had a lot of turnover-worthy plays in that game,

01:30which ended up not being turnovers,

01:31specifically probably there,

01:32but you just have to look at the final statistics.

01:34You're not going to look at that game and say,

01:36Josh Allen lost that football game

01:38or he wasn't game to beating Kansas City.

01:40It's just now we're at the point.

01:41It's like Kansas City just doesn't lose.

01:43It's what they do.

01:44If they win another Super Bowl,

01:45nobody's ever won three in a row here,

01:47and then you're going to say next year,

01:49I think Travis Kelce is going to retire

01:50when they win three straight Super Bowls.

01:51No, they're going to bring the band back together

01:53and probably add on even more pieces than what they have now.

01:56The joke was last year was the time to get them

01:58because that was probably their least talented team,

02:00and they went on the road with the hardest stretch

02:02we've ever seen beating three opponents

02:04they shouldn't have beaten here,

02:05and now we're finding them back into the Super Bowl.

02:07That's my takeaway.

02:08Like, you want to slander the Bills and Josh Allen,

02:11but when cooler heads prevail, you go,

02:13what do you want them to do?

02:14It's the Chiefs.

02:15They beat everybody, you know?

02:18Yep, it's what they continue to do.

02:20Again, we could do the examination

02:22with the preseason odds on Kansas City from 2018 on.

02:26The seven years that Patrick Mahomes

02:28has been the starting quarterback for the Chiefs

02:31and how much money you would have

02:33with a $100 bet on KC

02:35simply to win the AFC Championship,

02:38which they have done five times in that seven-year span.

02:42We will talk more about this dynastic run,

02:44the history at stake in New Orleans,

02:47in the history already made by KC

02:50becoming the first of nine back-to-back Super Bowl winners

02:54to play in a third consecutive Super Bowl.

02:58Again, history for the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes.

03:02For the Buffalo Bills, DRS, yet again,

03:05you can look at the Pantheon,

03:06you can look atop the mountain

03:08where KC and Andy Reid and Mahomes still stand

03:11and say, man, we are going against generational greatness.

03:15That is the thing holding us back.

03:18But with Josh Allen, specifically in the last five years,

03:21winning a division, hosting at least one playoff game,

03:24this is really starting to sting.

03:27Eight years under Sean McDermott,

03:28seven playoff appearances for Buffalo,

03:31including six consecutive.

03:34A 7-7 record in the postseason for McDermott

03:38that features only two berths in an AFC Championship,

03:42never a Super Bowl appearance.

03:44Buffalo, as an organization,

03:46has not reached the biggest of games since 1993,

03:49now over three decades ago, of course,

03:51when the Bills made four consecutive Super Bowls

03:54and were unable to win a Lombardi Trophy.

03:57A 7-7 playoff record for Sean McDermott, DRS,

04:01but five of those seven victories

04:04coming in the wildcard round.

04:06Should there be slander to those from Western New York,

04:09or is it just, man, we kind of get it,

04:12Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs

04:14are just the reason you come up short each and every time?

04:18Yes, it's your escape clause,

04:20and it's very valid at that point.

04:21It's the same with the handicapped Chiefs games now,

04:23by saying, oh, they just have to win the football game,

04:24bet them, like, I'm not throwing any slander,

04:26like, now you have to make a change.

04:27You go to Wu with Sean McDermott,

04:29he keeps running up against the Kansas City Chiefs

04:31and can't get over the hump, but understand this too,

04:34this was a Buffalo Bills team over the past three years

04:36that was like, you know what, now's their time,

04:38they're gonna get to the Super Bowl.

04:39Entering into the season,

04:40they weren't that hot commodity for me in the AFC anymore,

04:43so I actually look at this Buffalo Bills team,

04:45I don't wanna say overachievers,

04:47because that's not fair, they have Josh Allen,

04:48a quarterback, he can win anywhere at any time,

04:50or at least that's the perceived notion,

04:51but this was a team that said, you know what,

04:53we're gonna trade away Stephon Diggs,

04:54we're gonna lose a couple players on defense,

04:56some cap casualties, we're gonna respond,

04:58we're gonna draft a young wide receiver in Keon Coleman,

05:00who, it's unfair to call him a bust,

05:03but you were expecting those expectations

05:05based on he had funny interviews

05:07coming out of Florida State,

05:08and how great he was gonna be for the Buffalo Bills,

05:10and in the biggest moments, he couldn't produce.

05:12You know, probably would've,

05:13if you had a healthy Stephon Diggs,

05:15or a true number one wide receiver,

05:17but I can't fault Buffalo, they tried with Amari Cooper,

05:20he's just cooked right now, Ben,

05:21that's all it is to it.

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