{"id":729512,"date":"2026-02-04T19:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/729512\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:44:12","slug":"bills-news-josh-allen-says-locker-room-didnt-really-care-about-chiefs-missing-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/729512\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills News: Josh Allen Says Locker Room \u2018Didn\u2019t Really Care\u2019 About Chiefs Missing the Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kansas City Chiefs have always been the biggest thorn in the Buffalo Bills\u2019 path when it comes to the Super Bowl. In fact, Josh Allen has lost four different contests against Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs over the years. That\u2019s why, when those same Chiefs missed the playoffs this year, it should have been good news for the Bills\u2019 locker room. Except it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

According to Allen, the team never focused on the Chiefs\u2019 exclusion from the playoffs. It went against what many football fans were thinking at the time when Buffalo reached the postseason with a dominant run no less. Many believed that the absence of Mahomes<\/a> was another significant advantage for the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s something that we don\u2019t talk about in the locker room, really. We don\u2019t really care so much about who else is in the playoffs with us, how to get there, or how to get it done. The short answer is we didn\u2019t get it done this year. And that\u2019s on us, that\u2019s on me,\u201d Allen said<\/a> during his appearance on First Things First.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s surprising to hear, to say the least. After all, Allen has lost to Mahomes by one score in the playoffs three times. Last season, less than one yard decided the outcome of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Later on, Allen shed some light on his mentality going into this postseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to keep working tirelessly until we find a way to get there and get it done. I understand the people\u2019s thoughts of you don\u2019t have no Mahomes, no Lamar, no Joe Burrow in the playoffs. But there\u2019s some dang good teams in this playoffs. They\u2019re not there just by chance. They\u2019re there for a reason. And the two teams that are in the Super Bowl, they deserve to be there,\u201d Allen stated.<\/p>\n

Some may see it as an excuse from the former MVP, but Allen is right. There were a few teams better than the Chiefs in the AFC this season. Even the Jacksonville Jaguars went on a run, giving the Bills a tough test in the Wild Card round.<\/p>\n

The Denver Broncos ultimately ended up being the team to send Allen home this time around. They had an elite defense and were playing with home-field advantage. Allen turned the ball over four times in that game, including a pivotal overtime interception. It went down as another heartbreaking playoff loss in Bills history.<\/p>\n

Maybe one of these years, Allen and the Bills will get over the hump. At this point in his career, a Super Bowl win is a massive monkey the QB can\u2019t seem to get off his back. It does, however, sound like he will always stay motivated to win one because of his love for the game. Still, the lack of a Lombardi Trophy in his hands must be starting to wear on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs have always been the biggest thorn in the Buffalo Bills\u2019 path when it comes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[53,20173,7,872,110,6,84,499],"class_list":["post-729512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl-playoffs","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-first-things-first","tag-football","tag-josh-allen","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-patrick-mahomes"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116014079376888509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729512","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=729512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}