Wide right ruined Buffalo’s Super Bowl dreams once again.
Bills kicker Tyler Bass pushed a potential 44-yard game-tying field goal wide right, and Buffalo fell, 27-24, to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night in the Divisional Round in Orchard Park.
“It sucks. Losing sucks,” Bills quarterback Josh Allen said after the game. “Losing to them, losing to anybody. At home. It sucks.”
Trailing by three points, the Bills mounted a more than a six-minute drive, keeping Patrick Mahomes saddled to the bench.
Coming out of the two-minute warning, Allen misfired twice, setting up Bass for a makeable boot to even the score.
Shades of Scott Norwood’s 47-yard miss in Super Bowl XXV echoed through Western New York as Bass’ kick sailed well wide, leaving the gut-punched Bills Mafia again on the wrong side of an epic playoff tussle with the Chiefs.
Ultimately, it’s completely on me,” a dejected Bass said in the locker room following the loss. “Got to do a better job of getting through to my target.
Got to do a better job of playing it a little bit more left when you have a left-to-right. I’ve been here long enough to know that you have to do that.
I was trusting my line that I had in warmups. Hit a good ball, it didn’t work out.
I feel terrible. I love this team, and it hurts. This one hurts bad. I’ve got to do a better job.
