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Alaina Getzenberg
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- Alaina Getzenberg is a staff writer who covers the Buffalo Bills and the NFL. She joined ESPN in 2021. Alaina was previously a beat reporter for the Charlotte Observer and has also worked for CBS Sports and the Dallas Morning News. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. You can follow her via Twitter @agetzenberg.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The game lived up to its billing.
In the seventh meeting between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs this decade, it was the visiting Chiefs who prevailed on Sunday, winning a 27-24 thriller in the AFC divisional round from frigid western New York. Kansas City, playing its first road playoff game of the Patrick Mahomes era, sealed it after Buffalo kicker Tyler Bass missed a 44-yard field goal attempt wide right that would have tied the score with under two minutes to play.
Kansas City returns to its familiar place in the AFC Championship Game, where Andy Reid’s squad will meet the Ravens at Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium next Sunday.
Here are the biggest takeaways from both teams in the contest.
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This season’s AFC Championship Game won’t be another edition of the Arrowhead Invitational, but it will include the Chiefs.
The Chiefs advanced to a sixth straight conference title game after another in their collection of epic playoff victories. The divisional round lead changed hands five times before Kansas City held off the Bills on their final drive.
The Chiefs will play the Ravens next Sunday in the conference title game. The game will be held in Baltimore after the previous five AFC Championship Games were staged at Arrowhead Stadium.
Eye-popping NextGen stat: In an indication of how the Chiefs were being handled by the Bills when Buffalo ran the ball, the Bills through three quarters averaged…
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