The Buffalo Bills' famous Four Falls in the Super Bowl now has more company in the annals of this tortured fanbase. For the fourth time in five seasons, the Bills' season has ended in the playoffs thanks to Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, who are advancing to their fifth Super Bowl in six seasons.
While Mahomes had one of the most efficient games of his postseason career, he did receiver some extra help from Bills players like tight end Dalton Kincaid screwing up in the biggest moments as they advanced to the Super Bowl against the Philadelphia Eagles.
On fourth down, with Buffalo trailing 32-29 late in the fourth quarter, Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo dialed up a perfectly timed cornerback blitz that broke the pocket down immediately and forced Josh Allen to chuck the ball up for dear life. Somehow, the ball miraculously found Kincaid's hands, only for a nightmare to pop up.
Kincaid had the catch in his hands, and he just could not hold on. The drop will live rent-free in Bills fans' minds as their lick their wounds, while the Chiefs rode a three-touchdown performance from Patrick Mahomes to yet another Super Bowl.
Chiefs advance to Super Bowl after Bills TE Dalton Kincaid has awful drop
In the Bills' last two playoff games, Kincaid caught just three passes. While James Cook emerging as a threat and Allen finding success with Khalil Shakir at wide receiver have limited Kincaid's opportunities, the former top draft pick didn't put on his best showing in the last few weeks.
Kincaid is finding out how bad a painful drop for a tight end can be just one week after he benefitted from it, as Mark Andrews letting the Baltimore Ravens' season slip away is the only reason the Bills made it to this game. Regardless, Kansas City is the victor, and they have their eyes set on Super Bowl No. 5 in franchise history.
Super Bowl LIX will be the fifth time coaches will rematch one another in the Super Bowl, as Andy Reid and Nick Sirianni will face off once more. On all four prior occasions, the coach who won the first meeting (Andy Reid, Tom Coughlin, Jimmy Johnson, Chuck Noll) won the rematch against their opponent (Kyle Shanahan, Bill Belichick, Marv Levy, Tom Landry).
Any time a team has as much success as Kansas City, there's a fair degree of luck involved. While Kansas City's skill position players stepped up when their number was called, Kincaid had a game-changing first-down slip right through his arms in yet another painful Buffalo loss.