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The Buffalo Bills are already considering themselves among teams in the running for the 2021 AFC Championship game.
After an underwhelming loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in this year’s title bout on Sunday, the Bills kept their heads high as best as they could. The faces of the team led the way with that with the predictions of sorts.
First, before even leaving the field, Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott did a sideline interview with CBS Sports. Even with the 38-24 loss fresh on his mind… positive.
“They won, they were the better team tonight. The Buffalo Bills will be back,” McDermott said.
That same mantra appears to be running deep in the Buffalo locker room as well. Quickly during his postgame presser, Bills quarterback Josh Allen had more of the same to say.
“This one is not going to be fun watching over. It’s not fun falling a game short of the Super Bowl. One team had to win, one team had to lose,” Allen said. “We didn’t play good enough to win tonight and it’s going to fuel us… I got no doubt in my mind that we will be back.”
Both have plenty of reason to think so. The Bills had a 13-3 regular season and swept their way to the AFC East title. It’s can’t be overstated how overdue that was for this club.
In actually breaking the game down a bit, McDermott did seem to think that his team was just really out-executed. The Chiefs are a good team, after all.
“Listen, they won, we didn’t get the result we wanted tonight. Give them credit where credit is due. They had a really good game, they had a lot of speed… this is a learning experience for us, that’s how you have to look at it. We had a great season. Came up a little bit short tonight. But that’s a great football team on the other side,” McDermott said.
While the Chiefs will move onto bigger thing via Super Bowl LV, the Bills will certainly be thinking about them all offseason. If things go according to plan, Buffalo and Kansas City might get a bit familiar with one another in the playoffs for quite and extended period.
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