If there was any doubt, it’s now clear after the NFL divisional round: The AFC is the league’s heavyweight decision.
Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen duked it out in one of the greatest NFL playoff games of all time with Mahomes’ Kansas City Chiefs getting the best of the Buffalo Bills in overtime Sunday night. If it weren’t for the NFL’s overtime rules, the two sides might still be playing with Allen and Mahomes trading haymakers at Arrowhead Stadium.
It’s easy to become prisoners of the moments following a masterpiece like that. But it’s increasingly difficult to argue there are two better quarterbacks in the NFL right now, especially with Tom Brady nearing the end and Aaron Rodgers further cementing himself as a regular-season savant and not much else.