{"id":208065,"date":"2025-07-15T04:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/208065\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T04:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:15:11","slug":"josh-allen-cant-beat-patrick-mahomes-and-fans-are-starting-to-blame-hailee-steinfeld-for-the-slump-nfl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/208065\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Allen can’t beat Patrick Mahomes \u2014 and fans are starting to blame Hailee Steinfeld for the slump | NFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JoshJosh Allen’s Buffalo Bills face immense pressure in 2025 (Image via AP) The Buffalo Bills may be perennial contenders, but as long as Patrick Mahomes<\/a> wears red and gold, they remain firmly under his shadow. Despite a strong regular season and an MVP campaign from Josh Allen, the Bills have consistently fallen short in January \u2014 especially when facing the Kansas City Chiefs. Allen is now 0-4 in playoff games against Mahomes, a stat that looms large heading into the 2025 NFL season.<\/p>\n

Despite Hailee Steinfeld\u2019s support, Josh Allen\u2019s struggles against Patrick Mahomes<\/p>\n

The latest blow came in the 2024 AFC Championship Game, where Allen once again came up short. Despite leading a high-powered offense and having Hollywood\u2019s Hailee Steinfeld cheering him on, the Wyoming-born quarterback has yet to overcome the Mahomes-sized wall standing between Buffalo and a Super Bowl<\/a> return. The last time the Bills reached the big game was in 1993 \u2014 and Allen\u2019s era has yet to change that.While Mahomes didn\u2019t hit his usual 4,000-yard passing mark last season and threw just 26 touchdowns, ESPN analyst Harry Douglas issued a stark warning: \u201cI think they are going to need a little help from someone else in the AFC. And what I mean by that is, they are 0-4 against the Kansas City Chiefs in the playoffs. They need someone else to knock off the Chiefs before they actually face them in a playoff game.\u201dIt\u2019s a brutal truth, and one that underscores just how dominant Mahomes, Andy Reid, and Travis Kelce<\/a> have been in the postseason. Kelce, in particular, has often been Allen\u2019s nightmare, delivering clutch performances and touchdowns that crush Buffalo\u2019s hopes again and again.Meanwhile, Hailee Steinfeld and Allen continue to be one of the NFL\u2019s most-watched power couples, but even off-field love can\u2019t soften the frustration of four straight playoff exits at the hands of the same team. If Allen loses to Mahomes again, the pressure will skyrocket \u2014 not just from media and fans, but perhaps even internally from the organization.Also Read: Josh Allen gives up oceanfront mansion after secret wedding\u2014did Hailee Steinfeld want him out of L.A.?<\/a>For Buffalo, it\u2019s Super Bowl or bust in 2025. But unless someone else can do the dirty work of eliminating Kansas City, Allen and Steinfeld might be in for another cold and bitter January \u2014 watching Mahomes and Kelce celebrate once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Allen’s Buffalo Bills face immense pressure in 2025 (Image via AP) The Buffalo Bills may be perennial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[423,215,214,53,2086,12,7,5381,872,110,6,84,499,505,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-208065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-afc-championship-game","9":"tag-bills","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-buffalobills","13":"tag-espn","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-hailee-steinfeld","16":"tag-josh-allen","17":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nfl-playoffs","20":"tag-patrick-mahomes","21":"tag-super-bowl","22":"tag-travis-kelce"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114855315741335986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}