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Just How Bad Is the Touchback Rule That Screwed the Browns?

It’s not difficult to envision an alternate universe where the Bills are facing the Browns in the AFC championship ship game. If not for an unlucky Cleveland turnover at the end of the first half, Kansas City could have easily been forced to play from behind Chad Henne at the helm.

The turnover in question came with 1:42 left in the second quarter. Baker Mayfield found Rashard Higgins near the goal line and the receiver reached the ball toward the pylon, where it was jarred loose by a hit from Daniel Sorensen. The ball bounced into the end zone and caromed out of bounds.