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By halfway through the first quarter of Sunday evening’s AFC Championship game with the Buffalo Bills, the Kansas City Chiefs were feeling a different kind of “run it back” than they were expecting.
After Chiefs wide receiver Mecole Hardman muffed a punt at his own 11-yard line, the Bills recovered at the Kansas City 3. It only took a single pass from Bills quarterback Josh Allen to second-year tight end Dawson Knox to capitalize on Hardman’s error, giving Buffalo a 9-0 lead.
It felt an awful lot like 2019 postseason, when the Chiefs had to erase leads in every game to come back and win. Could they do it again?