Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen gave us what has to be the greatest, grandest display of back-and-forth quarterbacking in a big game that anyone has ever seen.
Twice, Allen had to assume he’d delivered one of the signature moments in Bills history, once on fourth-and-the-season, just under two minutes left, a 27-yard scoring strike to Gabriel Davis, then another 19-yarder to Davis, 13 seconds from the final gun. Against any other team, any other quarterback, Allen isn’t just the toast of Orchard Park this morning but of the entire NFL.
But against the Chiefs, against Mahomes, he would wind up merely a foil, a co-star, a sidekick. It wasn’t enough that the Chiefs regained the lead with a 52-second drive; somehow, after that second Allen-to-Davis strike, with only 13 seconds to go, Mahomes completed two balls for 44 yards, setting up a game-tying field goal. “We feel like we just played in one of the great games you could ever play in,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said.
Think about it: After the two-minute warning these quarterbacks combined for 221 yards and three touchdowns. This was as close as football can ever come to a game of H-O-R-S-E. This was anything-you-can-do, I-can-do-better taken to an unprecedented place. Most remarkable of all, as hyped and ballyhooed as this quarterback matchup was coming in, they managed to exceed all of it. The winning quarterback said, “I’ll remember this for the rest of my life.
The losing quarterback threw for 329 yards and four touchdowns, and looked like he’d throw for as many more as he had to if only he could have touched the ball in overtime. But he never did. He is 25 years old. They will be back. They will be back plenty, in more big games, in more big moments. They may never duplicate what they did Sunday afternoon … but, then, would it surprise you if they did? Good for us, who marveled at an afternoon for the ages. Good luck to the rest of the AFC, trying to keep this from becoming a regular part of the January itinerary
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