“Where’s my chance?” Heartbreaking photos of Josh Allen after OT loss to the Chiefs will break the hearts of Bills fans

“Where’s my chance?” Heartbreaking photos of Josh Allen after OT loss to the Chiefs will break the hearts of Bills fans

Josh Allen

Expect Buffalo Bills quarterback, Josh Allen to enter the debate surrounding the NFL’s overtime rules this offseason. This debate certainly isn’t news to anyone at this point due to its ‘unfair’ nature. Most fans prefer college football’s system allowing both teams to have a shot at scoring and after the Bills and Chiefs went at it in the divisional round, everyone wants to see some change.

The game was a high-scoring thriller that featured twists and turns that couldn’t even be scripted. Neither offense could be stopped with the final score being 42-36 to the Chiefs. The last-minute alone was unbelievable as Allen and the Bills took the lead with 13 seconds left and looked to be set to host the AFC championship game only to have Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offense somehow manage to get into field goal range to set up a game-tying score.

Here’s where the rules need to be changed. Currently, as per NFL overtime rules, a coin toss occurs and the winner of it gets to choose whether or not they receive the ball. Of course, they always receive because if you score a touchdown you win. The other team doesn’t get a chance. And that is exactly what the Chiefs did.

With all the momentum in the world, Mahomes lead his offense down the field to score the game-winning touchdown and of course, he did. The Bills had the NFL’s #1 ranked defense but they weren’t going to stop them, they hadn’t done it all game. In the end, the Bills and Allen lost because they didn’t win the coin toss. There was no way that if they didn’t win that toss they wouldn’t go down the field and score and the result was a truly heartbreaking loss.

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Josh Allen was absolutely broken after not even getting a chance

Josh Allen
Josh Allen

If the NFL followed college football’s overtime system, Allen would’ve had a chance to take his offense down the field and try and match the Chiefs. Instead, he had to sit there and watch Mahomes command his Chiefs to victory all because of a coin. The result was a dejected Allen sitting on the sideline realizing his season had ended in the most heartbreaking fashion possible.

Allen threw for 329 yards and 4 touchdowns and absolutely played his heart out to beat the team that knocked him out of the postseason last year. There was no part of him that deserved to have to go through that. The Bills defense, however, is a different story. They were the NFL’s best defense. BEST. And they allowed the Chiefs to get into field goal range in 9 seconds. Of course, there’s the heartbreak of the way overtime panned out but they shouldn’t have even allowed the Chiefs to tie the game.

While we’ll all remember this game as the one lost by a coin toss, it can’t go without saying that, the situation of needing overtime to finish the game shouldn’t have even happened in the first place.

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