{"id":685321,"date":"2026-01-17T23:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685321\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:54:16","slug":"why-bills-end-of-half-mistake-could-cost-buffalo-vs-broncos-with-3-point-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685321\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bills&#8217; end-of-half mistake could cost Buffalo vs. Broncos with 3-point swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> decided they&#8217;d try to do something.<\/p>\n<p>They were at their own 30 with just 16 seconds until halftime and no timeouts.<\/p>\n<p>They were already down 17-10, but might as well try it, right? It&#8217;s the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>But then Josh Allen fumbled, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/denver-broncos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broncos<\/a> recovered with two seconds left, and Wil Lutz drilled a field goal at the buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos took an inexplicable 20-10 lead to the intermission.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\/news\/bills-tredavious-white-patrick-mahomes-draft-pick-chiefs-trade\/03fad2a25ecb8c2de86d83ce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bills&#8217; Tre White always linked to Patrick Mahomes in Chiefs trade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why Bills made terrible mistake<\/p>\n<p>There was only one way this could work out poorly, and that was a turnover like this.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of it were super low. Allen does a good job protecting the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo figured if 20 or 25 yards came on a play, they themselves could try a field goal, or a Hail Mary.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it backfired in a major way.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos had just scored on a sweet throw to Lil&#8217;Jordan Humphrey. That was bad enough.<\/p>\n<p>Then this made it worse.<\/p>\n<p>If Buffalo loses by three points or less, this will loom as the worst moment of their season.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills decided they&#8217;d try to do something. They were at their own 30 with just 16&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-685321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115913140751205514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685321","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=685321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}