2024 Week 11: Chiefs 21, Bills 30
It finally happened. The Chiefs lost a game and didn’t get the calls or the lucky big play to win it. Instead, Buffalo was on the fortunate side of all of that. This was a great game by both teams and if either team won you could have walked away satisfied.
Buffalo (9-2) is now just a half-game behind KC in the AFC, and obviously, they have the tiebreaker.
The Chiefs (9-1) have a cake walk of a schedule left outside of their second matchup with the Broncos so the tiebreaker might not even matter, but it’s a great luxury to have.
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QB Report:
- Josh Allen (27/40 for 262 yards; 12 rushes for 55 yards, 1 TD) did what he does best and what a lot of other quarterbacks fail to do, he rose to the moment and played one of the best games of his career. This is the kind of game that wins you MVPs.
- Patrick Mahomes (23/33 FOR 196 YARDS, 3TD/ 2 INT) is taking the same drugs as CJ Stroud. It’s the drug that makes you look like a good football player, but when all is said and done, your stat line isn’t all that good. I don’t know how to explain what happened to Mahomes other than he doesn’t care about regular-season football.
- In the biggest game of the year, likely the biggest game until the AFC Championship game for the Chiefs, Mahomes threw to his two best targets, DeAndre Hopkins (3-29-0/4) and Travis Kelce (2-8-0/4) 8 total times? There must be a Matt Nagy issue too, ever since he got to KC. I never would have thought that Eric Bienemy was a better coach than someone but here we are.
RB Report:
- Kareem Hunt (14-60-0) has one more start as the full lead for Kansas City before Pacheco comes back. I think they’re giving Pacheco the extra time because they have Carolina coming up next and they should smack them, so there’s no reason to risk reinjuring himself. In an ideal world (I only have Kareem Hunt shares, no Isiah Pacheco) the Chiefs decide to split the backfield in favor of Hunt, it’s worked this long, and then in the playoffs, they go to Pacheco with fresher legs than everyone else in the league.
WR/TE Report:
I already said my piece about the Chiefs personnel usage so on to Buffalo!
- Amari Cooper (2-55-0/3) came back from his injury and made both of his catches early on, he’s just another cog in the wheel in Buffalo, not a true #1 like he was in Oakland or Dallas. The closest thing Buffalo has to a true #1 is Khalil Shakir (8-70-0/12), but he’s not too dominant, he just finds a way to get open and has great hands. There’s a lot of value in that, I’m not discounting him by any means.
- Curtis Samuel (5-58-1/6) had his one good game of the year so we can expect his name to lost on the winds in short order. He’s done this so many times that there wasn’t any excitement over him on waivers this time around, he’s the next Sammy Watkins, if you remember him.
image source: (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)