"We went into it saying OK, they're not going to beat us over the top," defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier said. "They were hitting so many explosives, and they're still doing it. We just weren't going to give up the explosive passes and that's the way we played.
"We said, OK, we're going to dare them to stay with the run game, and lo and behold, they stayed with it, and had a lot of success running the football. You know, we learned a lot from that ballgame, hopefully some lessons that will help us going forward, but that was the strategy going into game. We'll have to find a balance, do a better job against the run than we did in that first encounter."
Offensively, the Bills were held to a season-low 206 yards against the Chiefs, who relied on zone coverages designed to force Buffalo into underneath passes as opposed to looking downfield. The Bills offense improved in that regard as the season progressed, beginning the following week with Josh Allen's 307-yard passing performance against the Jets.
"It's the second time we play them, so it's almost like you play your division games," offensive coordinator Brian Daboll said. "You play the Patriots twice. You play the Jets twice, the Dolphins twice. You look at stuff that you did in the first game, and you evaluate that and say, `Boy, I wish I would have not done that,' or 'We could've done this better.'
"It's a point of reference you can go back to, particularly the matchups and things like that, seeing how their guys play against your guys. But it's just one step in the preparation process."
The Bills are 12-1 since that meeting with the Chiefs, with the lone loss having come on a Hail Mary play in Arizona. Since then, they rank seventh in points allowed per game (20.7) and first in points scored (34.5).
Here are more notes going into championship week after hearing from McDermott, Daboll, and Frazier on Monday.
January 19, 2021 at 08:23PM
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