BY: MATT SHALLOE
It is clear that the Buffalo Bills of 2020 are a special group, and that may be putting it lightly. After all, the team is geared up to visit the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Sunday night, with a chance to reach the big game for the first time since 1993. However, as excited as I am for the game and all of the other members of Bills Mafia, I can sit here and peacefully write this article knowing that the Bills accomplished many things this season.
Don’t get me wrong, a trip to the Super Bowl would be one of the most exciting moments of my young life, and winning it? I’ve thought about that multiple times this season and start to tear up at just the thought of it. This city more than deserves the right to be called “Super Bowl Champions.” However, going into this year, I laid out two goals that I would have liked to see the Bills accomplish:
- Win the division
- Win a playoff game
Check and check, as you can cross off “Win a playoff game” twice, and hopefully twice more. Anything else the Bills do this season is just icing on the cake. Both of those two goals are things that the Bills had not done in 25 years. Safe to say before the season that those two things would be pretty huge accomplishments, right? As they were.
However, as Head Coach Sean McDermott loves to say, there is still meat on the bone, and the season isn’t over just yet. But, with that being said, no matter what happens Sunday night, this franchise took an unbelievable step forward and gave us as fans not only a lot of hope for a chance at a Super Bowl this season but gave us a realistic chance to compete for Super Bowls (yes, plural) in the years to come.
This season is as remarkable as it has been because of quarterback Josh Allen’s development, and he’s only going to get better, which is kind of scary. Although the NFL MVP will most likely be Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, Allen made a legitimate case for himself in the running for the award, and that right there is more than enough reason as to why this Bills season will go down as a great one no matter the result. For the first time since Jim Kelly, the Bills finally have “their guy.” They finally have the Franchise QB they have been so desperately chasing.
You cannot mention Josh Allen without mentioning WR Stefon Diggs, of course, as he put up numbers that I don’t think anyone would have predicted in his first season in the red and blue.
Diggs was phenomenal this season after a trade that a lot of people said would not work out, calling Stefon Diggs a “diva,” calling Josh Allen “trash,” saying if Diggs couldn’t work with Kirk Cousins, how could he work with a guy as wildly inaccurate as Josh Allen? Yeah, people actually said that, and just thinking about it makes me chuckle. Along with the Franchise QB, the Bills acquired the #1 WR they had needed for quite some time. The two of them alone is what I believe the Bills a legitimate chance against anybody, as in an offense-driven league, the tandem is unstoppable.
Before the season, the Bills extended Head Coach Sean McDermott, and then in early December, signed General Manager Brandon Beane to an extension matching McDermott’s in terms of years, keeping the pair in Buffalo though 2025. Just another reason there should be so much excitement surrounding this team no matter how this season ends up.
Clearly, there are many positive signs for the Bills going forward as a franchise, but the job is not done yet. Win or lose Sunday night, this season has been a massive success and something that I don’t think many people could have predicted before the season started. There is so much optimism surrounding this team’s future, but hey, let’s win us a Super Bowl, huh? As Left Tackle Dion Dawkins put it, “We only got one thing on our mind, and it ain’t losing.”
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2 Responses
❤️ Awesome article and so very true! This Buffalo Bills team has definitely won the hearts of WNY and the respect they deserve in the NFL! . Now let’s go win a Super Bowl!!!!
❤️?GO BILLS❤️?
Nice piece of writing. Excellent take Matt. Keep up the good work.