Asked and answered: Josh Allen was born at the wrong time

Each week in the NFL season brings a host of new questions … and also answers a few elders. Let’s do what we have learned in the conference championships … and what we will question in the Super Bowl.

Answer: Patrick Mahomes is inevitable

You knew how it was always going to end, right? It didn’t matter that the Bills took a three -point lead in the second quarter, or an advance at a point in the third, or equal to the match in the fourth, you have always known that the Chiefs of Kansas City and Patrick Mahomas were going to have the Ball in their hands, late in the match. And you also certainly knew that the sun rises that Mahomes would work on the field and the clock, to find open men like the chiefs had 14 players on the field, going down as it could really run the time more quickly. It is the black magic and the inevitability of these chefs, which they will always be hunting, and they will always be the last standing team.

There is a reaction from the building to the reaction against the chiefs, which we should not have enough of this team because we are witnessing one of the large dynasties of the NFL at the height of its power. But this is the thing about the dynasties – they are pleasant for team fans and for historians, but for fans of the other 31 teams, they are a frustrating roadblock. And for the chief rivals of the dynasties, they are a hell of several years.

Which brings us to Josh Allen, the most sympathetic figure of all the domination of current chefs. Allen is a transcendent quarter, capable of making games that raise imagination and redefine the limits of what is possible for the position. And yet, again and again, he continues to run against this unstoppable mastodon. Each loss takes another bite of their career, and can each loss bring a brand new wave of “can it do it?” Questions and criticism.

Allen was more than good enough to beat just about any other NFL team on Sunday evening – 237 yards, two affected, no interceptions – but “good enough” is not good enough to beat Kansas City. And now Allen must ask himself if he is the Charles Barkley of his time, a talent overcoming with the bad luck to be born in a time when the greatest talent of the generation is in charge.

The console line in moments like this is always: “He will have another chance.” And it’s true, Allen will get at least half a dozen chances. But Mahomes too. And that’s the whole problem for Buffalo … and Baltimore … and Pittsburgh … and everyone with the misfortune of playing in the Mahomes era.

When questioned: Dalton Kincaid, can Mark Andrews recover from this series series?

For a team match, NFL football comes down to many moments of individual agony. A kicker missing a goal on the field is in a way the norm for this scenario, but we now have two superb if the tight ends missing which should have been routine captures. Mark Andrews of Baltimore had the most blatant decline, a potential conversion in two points which would probably have forced overtime. This week, it was Dalton Kincaid’s turn; A pass that would have maintained the last Bills training jumped its forearms:

Admittedly, it was a difficult to take in all circumstances, and Buffalo still needed to score at least one goal on the field to equalize the match. (And Bills fans only know too well what would have happened if Mahomas had recovered the ball with all the time remaining at the chronometer.)

But still … it was a capable bullet, and it means that he will play in the minds of bills (and Kincaid himself) fans until September. “Right now, it’s obviously a lot of trouble, and it will dwell for a while, but ultimately, you have to continue,” Kincaid said after the match. “And I hope you are growing from this, and I think it will be, but for the moment, it will hurt a lot.”

Buffalo fans may not be satisfied with this answer, but that’s all they have to pass them until next season.

Answer: The Eagles of Philadelphia are fully operational

Without the chiefs doing what the Chiefs do, all the conversations after the weekend of the conference championship would focus on the exceptional race of Eagles this season. The winners of 15 of their last 16 games, the Eagles stole (sorry) under the radar of the League for a large part of the season while the Lions and the Vikings fired the spotlight. But these two teams are gone now, and what remains is the band of voracious evil of Philadelphia, a defense capable of swallowing planets and an offense capable of packing races of more than 50 yards at any time.

In addition, Philly knows how to play the Mind game. A key statistic of the decimation of Sunday commanders: Washington committed four reversals, and Philadelphia each transformed a touchdown, a psychologically revolutionary strategy. It is a team that includes the value of each drop, each gesture, each point of a global match plan. They will have their challenges against Kansas City, the most difficult psychologically team of the NFL, but Philadelphia will be a better match for the chiefs than the other two NFC teams would have been.

Asked: what is the next step for commanders?

Many dreams have ended these NFL qualifiers prematurely. Lions, Vikings and Ravens, in particular – as well as invoices, of course – already checked the price of hotel rooms in New Orleans before cold and hard reality closes them and introduced them into The offseason. A team that is offset with more optimism than frustration, however, is Washington. This is what happens when you go beyond your season planned by six good victories, and when your season ends with the conference championship rather than a pre-Thanksgiving mathematical elimination.

Washington didn’t look good on Sunday. These four reversals that have become affected … It is the worst possible result of an interception or an escape, devastating for the psyche of a young team. Jayden Daniels can do everything, but he cannot do everything, and against a defense as formidable as Philly, he could not do much at all.

However, Washington was the very embodiment of “the money’s money” this season. The perfect encapsulation of this: an ESPN investigation report beautifully to people who burned down the former owner Dan Snyder. The commanders fans had this brief overview of the misery they endured for a quarter of a century … and could then refocus on their wonderful new team. Washington has learned many lessons this season, but the first and most important is that the size is within their reach after all.

Answer: the referees always push you on the edge

The final plot of the 2024 Bills season came to this Dalton Kincaid Miss, when Jim Nantz said that there was a flag, and CBS showed the graphic of the yellow flag … only for there flag after all. Bills fans on X have managed to convince themselves that there was A flag, only he was picked up once Kincaid missed the pass.

Listen, you can’t really blame Bills fans – or someone else, really – to be wary of referees when the chefs are involved. We obtained another much more tangible decision when the referees ruled that Buffalo had not won the thumb necessary for a first trial in the fourth quarter, a decision which led directly to Kansas City to take a momentum and, finally, In the game and the conference championship.

Combine all this with the strange moment of the NFC championship, when those responsible specifically said that they could assign the Eagles with a touchdown, and you have a base of NFL fans almost to all officiant calls.

Not that this counts for chefs:

Good luck to the referees at this year Super Bowl. You will be closer than advertisements.

Asked: So who will win the Super Bowl?

In normal circumstances, we would say the two -digit eagles. But these are not normal circumstances, and the chiefs always seem to find a means. We will save our formal prediction for later, but for the moment … maybe we are not leaving on the mortgage on birds, fans of the Eagles, no matter how good you feel right now.