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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) Different season. Familiar heartbreaking finish.Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills know the feeling all too well.Here, there, doesnt matter, the Bills quarterback said. Losing sucks. I dont know Evan Gattis Jersey what else to say.Buffalo (12-7) showed plenty of resolve in 2023, winning its last five regular-season games to claim its fourth straight AFC East title. But the Bills fell short of their ultimate goal Sunday night with a again and against the Kansas City Chiefs again.ADVERTISEMENT It was the third straight year the Bills' season ended in this round of the playoffs. And they've been eliminated by the Chiefs , with lo ses after the 2020 and 2021 seasons at Arrowhead Stadium.Two years ago, it was 13 Seconds the amount of time it took Patrick Mahomes to drive the Chiefs for a tying field goal. This time, the Bills brought back two words familiar from their history of heartbreak: wide right.Tyler Ba s with 1:43 left, and the Chiefs ran out the clock from there. Wide right became infamous in Buffalo when Scott Norwood mi sed a 47-yard field goal attempt in the closing seconds of a 20-19 lo s to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl on Jan. 27, 1991 Ken Giles Jersey .I feel terrible, Ba s said. This one hurts bad.They all hurt in Buffalo, where a team led by one of the league's most exciting quarterbacks found new ways to come up short, this time in a game where the teams traded the lead five times.Im extremely disappointed. I mean, you put so much time into this, you put so much time into a season, let alone this game Josh Reddick Jersey and the preparation for it. And to come out and to not perform the way Id hoped we would have, its extremely disappointing and frustrating, coach Sean McDermott said. Ive been to two Super Bowls and theres only one team thats happy. Its that type of busine s and you keep working at it.There were plenty of personal subplots in this lo s to the Chiefs.McDermott lost to his mentor, Chiefs coach Andy Reid, who gave McDermott his NFL break by hiring him to his staff in Philadelphia in 1999.Reid praised McDermott, saying: All-time cla sic again. Any time we play Seans teams, it comes right down to the end.For Allen, it was losing to good friend and occasional offseason golf partner in Patrick Mahomes, who consoled Allen afterward.I said, Heck of a year, man. Ive been on the other side of that, Mahomes said. He played his tail off to give them a chance to win in the end. We were just able to come out with the win in the end.Allen didn't have a turnover and finished 26 of 39 for 186 yards and a touchdown while rushing for a team-high 72 yards and two TDs. He deflected Robinson Chirinos Jersey the criticism of Ba s for mi sing the field goal, instead placing the onus on himself for not leading the Bills to the end zone on their last drive.I wish he wouldnt have been put in that situation, Allen said. You win as a team. You lose as a team. One play doesnt define a season, doesnt define a game.Ba s' kick hardly would have guaranteed a win or even overtime. The Chiefs would have gotten the ball back with nearly two minutes on the clock and two timeouts. In the 13 Seconds game, Buffalo blew a late lead, allowing Mahomes to move his team 44 yards in two plays, and lost in overtime.Asked if this lo s was harder to accept, center Mitch Morse said: No, its always hard.___AP freelancers Jonah Bronstein and Alex Brasky contributed Alex Bregman Jersey to this report.___AP NFL: