As the Chiefs were in the process of getting themselves knocked out of the NFL playoffs a few hundred miles west, we had reached a kind of dead end with the Bills, a team that has a clearance in the AFC the size of the Grand Canyon but had not behaved in kind (at least to that point). With the Bills down by as much as 21 against the Patriots in New England, a real question about which team may stumble into the Super Bowl out of the conference that may not see Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes or Joe Burrow in the field this January was starting to disturb like expiring milk left out in the open too long.
What happened in the second half—outside of being the largest comeback in the history of Gillette Stadium—was nothing short of stunning.
