One team’s loss is another team’s gain. At least, if you’re looking at it from an up-and-coming NFL team’s point of view. Sadly, if you’re the Buffalo Bills, you may be viewing it from the outside looking into your first Super Bowl trophy for the seventh season in a row.

Fortunately for the Bills, there’s still time to catch this team and capture their six consecutive AFC East Divisional title.

Why should the Bills be cognizant of this AFC East rival? Have you ever heard of the name Tom Brady before?

Are the New England Patriots coming for the Buffalo Bills… again?

Earlier in the 2025 NFL season, it appeared that the Bills once again had the New England Patriots’ number, as Buffalo entered the crucial Week 5 game 4-0 and the Patriots were 2-2. But with the score tied at 20 following a Bills field goal, the Patriots drove down the field, and with 0:15 left, they kicked the eventual game-winning field goal to win 23-20.

All of a sudden, fans and the media outlets were going, “uh oh, the Patriots may be back.” Now fast forward to this Sunday afternoon’s matchup, and the Patriots are one win away from ending the Bills’ reign as the best team in the AFC East after 5 years in a row.

Part of the reason falls on Buffalo’s shoulders, and yes, they deserve the blame. After that Week 5 loss, the team blew their opportunity to put together a consistent winning streak to separate themselves from the Pats. On the other hand, the Patriots kept winning, even though they had yet to have their bye week.

Finally, after last week, when the Bills beat the Bengals in a thriller match-up and began winning back-to-back games, the Patriots finally had their Week 14 bye.

New England’s QB Drake Maye

Credit goes out to quarterback Drake Maye and the rest of the team for playing consistently winning football and finding ways to keep stacking up wins. At the same time, the Bills inconsistently floundered, losing one game to the then-hopeless Miami Dolphins. Even now, they are 6-7 and looking for five straight wins when they face the 7-6 Pittsburgh Steelers on MNF.

If you take a look at the comparison between quarterbacks Josh Allen and Maye, the numbers are stunningly close. The second-year quarterback boasts a 71.5 completion percentage to Allen’s 70.1%.

Maye leads Allen in the passing yards by a count of 3,412 to 3,083 yards, but Maye has wide receiver Stefon Diggs to throw to, whereas Allen, for the second straight season, has shown he can still be elite by doing more with less.

Overall, this shows that Maye has grown from year 1 to year 2 of his development. It also indicates that he has the right head coach this year in Mike Vrabel, who has led to an immediate turnaround from 11-2 to 4-13 with Jerod Mayo last year.

Is the Kansas City Chiefs’ dynasty over?

It looks like the dominance of the AFC West has been terminated, and that would be the Kansas City Chiefs.

For the last nine years, the Chiefs have won the AFC West title due to the brilliance of their superstar quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, and their superstar tight end, Travis Kelce. During that same period, the Bills began their 5-year quest to win the AFC East, and the two teams met in the playoffs every year except 2019 and 2022.

During those four playoff meetings, the Chiefs got the Bills every time, and Mahomes is 4-0 in the playoffs against Allen. That would be a stunning reversal, with Allen and the Bills 5-1 against Mahomes and the Chiefs during the regular season.

But this year, if you think the Bills’ inconsistency was bad, nobody had a bigger fall from grace than the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, the Bills are 9-4, and are in jeopardy of not getting a home playoff game, but the Chiefs are 6-7, and while their divisional title dreams are dashed, they might not even make the playoffs at all or barely squeak in as a wild card.

This was a team that was supposed to be the new dynasty, where Mahomes and head coach Andy Reid tried for their fourth straight Super Bowl. But with so much parody, the Chiefs may have to give way to the Patriots again, but this time to Maye and Vrabel.

Or, do the Bills pony up and lose this game only to face them for the third time in the playoffs, and spoil the Patriots’ chances of becoming the Bills’ thorn in their sides once again in the AFC?

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