Orchard Park, N.Y. — It didn’t matter what the Buffalo Bills defense was facing on Sunday night in their playoff loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, it couldn’t get a stop – until it was too late.
The Chiefs scored on five of their first six possessions and the Buffalo offense lost its mojo down the stretch in another disappointing postseason defeat.
Bills coach Sean McDermott, who took over as the defensive coordinator this season following the departure of longtime DC Leslie Frazier, took the blame.
“It starts with me as the head coach,” he said. “(Even) if the offense (struggled), it starts with me and I take full responsibility. That’s how I feel about it. … we didn’t do enough to win the game.”
The Bills earned the no. 2 seed with five straight wins to end their season, guaranteeing they’d play their first two games at home. They never played against the Kansas City Chiefs in Highmark Stadium since they drafted Patrick Mahomes. They were 0-2 against Mahomes in the playoffs – and dropped to 0-3 after Sunday’s game – but the idea pre-game was that Mahomes’ first road playoff game would be the key ingredient for the Bills to finally beat their nemesis when it matters most.
McDermott was asked about how disappointing it was considering his Bills got the Chiefs at home.
“I’m extremely disappointed,” he said. “To come out and to not perform the way I’d hoped we would have, it’s extremely disappointing and frustrating. And it’s the type of situation in our business where you got to spend the whole offseason thinking about it.”
McDermott blamed the defense and special teams units specifically for the loss. Tyler Bass missed a potential game-tying field goal with under two minutes to play in the game. The defense couldn’t figure out how to stop the Chiefs on first and second down throughout the game. Kansas City was just 1-for-5 on third down, but the Bills struggled to get them into those situations.
“We didn’t play the way we…
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