The Buffalo Bills take on the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC championship game on Sunday, Jan. 26. After defeating the Baltimore Ravens 27-25 in the divisional round, the Bills are just one win away from punching their ticket to the Super Bowl.
After three straight years of divisional round losses, this marks Bills quarterback Josh Allen's first appearance in the AFC championship game since the 2020 season, during which Kansas City got the best of them at Arrowhead Stadium.
While Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Co. are 3-0 against Buffalo in the playoffs, the NFL shared a historic stat about Allen and the Bills before the AFC championship game that immediately turned some heads.
The NFL announced in a memo on Tuesday, January 21, "Since last year’s Wild Card playoffs, the Bills have no turnovers in their past four postseason games, becoming the first team ever without a turnover in four consecutive postseason games."
Considering Allen committed a career-high 18 interceptions during the regular season last year, that stat not only highlights the quarterback's progression, as the 28-year-old is a frontrunner to win this year's MVP Award, but the entire team's improvement. During the 2024 season, the Bills committed a league-low eight turnovers.
The NFL added, "They can become the first team ever to reach the Super Bowl with 10-or-fewer turnovers, including the playoffs."
Heading into the AFC championship game this time around, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes sees a lot similarities this Bills team and his squad.
"Obviously they have Josh, and Josh is an extremely talented football player... but at the same time it goes throughout the entire team, Mahomes said on "The Drive" on Tuesday.
"You can see that when you watch the film with them. Everybody believes everybody is going to go out and do their job to the best of their ability and that’s why these games have been so tightly-contested. A lot of great football players and great coaches going up against each other. That’s why it’s been what the record has been.
"Knowing that Josh is going to give his team a chance to win and he’s going to battle to the very end, I know I need to play my best football."
