Payments rally to conquer Chiefs 24-20 in playoff rematch

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October 16, 10:14 PM October 16, 10:14 PM

KANSAS Metropolis, Missouri — Von Miller experienced just completed speaking about the great importance of the Buffalo Costs beating the Kansas Town Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium when he stopped in the hallway outside the house the viewing locker place and grabbed Josh Allen in a hug.

The Expenses quarterback was masterful once again on Sunday.

This time, it was in a profitable effort.

Allen threw for 329 yards and three touchdowns, such as the go-ahead toss to Dawson Knox with 1:04 remaining, and the Bills held on for a 24-20 victory to precise a measure of revenge for their epic additional time reduction to Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in previous year's playoffs.

"I have arrive to this stadium a total bunch of situations. Been at this identical podium. But I ain't have many smiles," Miller explained. "It just feels so good to go out there with my teammates, to work toward something like this and occur out on major."

Stefon Diggs experienced 10 catches for 148 yards and a touchdown, and Gabe Davis also had a TD capture soon after torching Kansas Town for 4 of them in January, as the Charges (5-1) received in the same position their season had ended the previous two seasons.

It was the divisional spherical in January. It was the AFC championship activity the yr before that.

"Absolutely nothing we did final 12 months interprets to what we are doing this calendar year," Allen explained with a shrug. "What transpired in the previous, which is wherever it is. All we can do is concentration on the subsequent one particular. Now was the following one."

For a instant, it appeared as if it could be the following heartbreak.

The Chiefs got the ball back immediately after Knox's landing with lots of time still left. But just after Mahomes misfired on 1st down, Buffalo cornerback Taron Johnson jumped his go to Skyy Moore and picked him off with 51 seconds still left.

The Expenses ran out the clock from there.

"It was a good fight. You love these games," Chiefs coach Andy Reid explained. "You just really don't want to be sitting down on this end of it. But you adore the level of competition and the way the men get immediately after it."

Mahomes concluded with 338 yards passing to go with two touchdowns and two interceptions, including a single in the stop zone early in the game. JuJu Smith-Schuster experienced 5 catches for 113 yards and a touchdown.

The down-to-the-wire nail-biter was a fitting abide by-up to their playoff activity, when the groups mixed to score 25 points in the ultimate two minutes of regulation, and the Chiefs (4-2) gained it on the 1st possession of time beyond regulation.

The teams scored on their final 6 belongings that night time, and they picked up Sunday proper wherever they remaining off — with a little caveat. The Payments and Chiefs the two marched the length of the field in the very first quarter, chewing up defenses that looked downright shed, only to flip the ball over when they achieved the red zone.

Then the similarities to their unbelievable divisional playoff sport really began.

Mahomes, at his improvisational ideal, stayed alive lengthy adequate in a collapsing pocket to uncover Smith-Schuster for a 42-yard TD reception. And immediately after the Costs blew another purple-zone chance, when Allen threw incomplete on fourth-and-intention at Kansas City's 3, Buffalo answered with a landing travel in the final moment of the half.

Backed up to its individual 1-property line, Allen threw a dart to Davis for a first down. He hit Knox, Diggs and Khalil Shakir on his upcoming 3 throws, then experienced Davis conquer rookie cornerback Joshua Williams for a 34-yard TD catch.

The travel took 73 seconds, protected 96 yards and gave the Charges a 10-7 direct.

And just like January, the Chiefs answered in seconds. Only in its place of employing 13 to drive inside of selection of Harrison Butker's 49-property subject intention to drive additional time, they had 16 seconds to go 27 yards and set up his 62-yarder to knot the video game.

The back-and-forth ongoing in the next fifty percent: Buffalo took the direct following Butker's 51-property skip when Diggs hauled in a extended TD capture, then Kansas Town drove 83 yards and Mecole Hardman tied it with his shorter reception.

When the Expenditures unsuccessful on a different fourth-down endeavor, Butker included a 44-yarder to give Kansas City a 20-17 direct.

But unlike January, the Costs manufactured the plays down the extend.

Allen's scrambling, hurdling operate on their go-forward travel received them in scoring position, and his toss to Knox — a pinpoint dime alongside the sideline — gave the Payments the guide. And when Johnson came up with his interception a several minutes later, the Costs had their long-awaited revenge in Kansas Metropolis.

"There ended up nonetheless some terrible memories from this place final yr," Knox mentioned, "so it was good to wipe all those from our minds."

Rough Dude

Charges protection Jordan Poyer, who missed very last week's match versus Pittsburgh with a rib damage, was medically cleared to engage in but not to fly. So, he drove 973 miles each and every way — about 15 hours in the automobile — to be on the discipline Sunday. Poyer wound up producing four tackles in the match.

STATS AND STREAKS

Allen experienced a profession-best 13 straight completions prior to missing on his initial throw of the fourth quarter. ... Miller had two sacks, providing him 16 in 19 game titles against Kansas Town. ... Chiefs DT Chris Jones, who had a controversial roughing-the-passer penalty last week, tripped Allen for a sack in the fourth quarter. ... Chiefs TE Travis Kelce experienced 8 grabs for 108 yards.

Damage REPORT

Payments: RT Spencer Brown (ankle) was carted off in the next quarter. CB Dane Jackson still left with a stinger in the third.

Chiefs: CB Rashad Fenton (hamstring) was inactive. CB Jaylen Watson remaining briefly in the fourth.

UP Subsequent

Expenditures: Off following 7 days in advance of struggling with the Packers on Oct. 30 in Buffalo.

Chiefs: Visit the 49ers next Sunday in their ultimate activity just before their bye.

Charges release Matt Araiza pursuing gang rape allegation

Heather Hamilton

August 28, 08:40 AM August 28, 08:40 AM

The Buffalo Bills have parted ways with rookie Matt Araiza two days following he was accused in a civil lawsuit of gang-raping a slight when he was attending university in 2021.

“We made a decision that releasing Matt Araiza was the ideal point to do,” Buffalo Expenditures Normal Supervisor Brandon Beane mentioned during a push conference Saturday. “Our tradition in Buffalo is a lot more critical than successful soccer video games.”

Araiza, a punter who acquired the nickname "Punt God" for his kicking in university, was chosen by Buffalo out of San Diego Condition College in the sixth round of the NFL Draft in April. The Expenses had named Araiza its commencing punter this week.

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Araiza is 1 of 3 males accused of a gang-rape involving a 17-year-aged lady while participating in for San Diego State, in accordance to the Los Angeles Instances. The lawsuit reportedly claims Araiza, 22, experienced intercourse with the woman exterior a property internet hosting an off-campus bash and the girl was then introduced within the property the place she was continuously raped.

"The very last 48 several hours has been pretty tough, for a good deal of persons. It is really been incredibly tough," Beane claimed. "We sympathize with this entire predicament, all the get-togethers concerned. This younger girl, what she went by means of. You seriously really feel poor for that whole scenario. Finally, this is a authorized problem — we don't know all the details. That is what would make it challenging.”

"But at this time, we just assume it can be the ideal shift for all people to move on from Matt and enable him choose care of this situation and emphasis on that, so we're likely to section means there,” Beane extra. “This is even larger than football."

Dan Gilleon, a law firm who signifies the California teenager in the lawsuit, said he has not listened to from workforce officials due to the fact initially informing them of the allegations in late July, according to the Associated Push. "I even followed up and reported, `Hey, you guys haven’t talked to me and known as me back like you mentioned you would.′ And they just dismissed that, as well," he claimed.

Beane explained he could not don't forget if the punter or Gilleon contacted the staff to start with but that the two took place close to the identical time.

"We experimented with to be comprehensive and thoughtful and not hurry to judgment, and I would say it's not quick. You happen to be striving to set information about a authorized problem at times with confined facts," Beane observed during the press convention. "There are quite a few factors that we could not get our fingers on. This was about allowing Matt go take care of his scenario.”

Araiza was held out of the Bill’s preseason match in opposition to the Carolina Panthers on Friday and was not at observe Saturday.

In a statement, for every ESPN, Araiza’s criminal attorney Kerry Armstrong reported: "I am certain he is incredibly upset and let down that his vocation with the Charges ended not due to the fact he performed improperly, but since of phony allegations leveled from him by a younger lady and her legal professional. I hope he is again in the NFL shortly.''

The NFL has so considerably declined to remark apart from to say it was knowledgeable of the issue.