Buffalo Bills WR Stefon Diggs Confident Amid Playoff Push: 'We're in a Great Spot!'
If the Buffalo Bills were as good at winning football games as they are at creating headlines, they’d be Super Bowl-bound. Instead, Buffalo is 6-6 with hysterically bad beats, fragile coaching infrastructure, and a daunting schedule down the stretch.
The Bills will visit the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, giving the football world a clash of quarterbacking titans for the late-afternoon slate. Buffalo can only afford to lose one more game if it wants a coin-flip chance at making the playoffs.
With Kansas City preceding the Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Chargers, New England Patriots, and Miami Dolphins on the schedule, stealing a Week 14 win gives them breathing room they currently lack.
For all the inconsistencies this team has endured, Buffalo is not short on confidence. Star receiver Stefon Diggs spoke about the state of affairs on Thursday.
Buffalo WR Stefon Diggs and QB Josh Allen must come up big on Sunday.
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“The adversity kind of shows you that it’s nothing that we can’t handle,” Diggs said. “We’ve been through a lot. Our record says one thing, who we are as a team is another. But we’re in a great spot. I don’t think too many teams or people in the league won’t say we’re a good team.”
Ultimately, wins and losses will be what the Bills are remembered for and thus judged by. But Buffalo is likely better than their record states. If the fluky plays that have doomed them aren’t enough, consider that the Bills rank sixth in defense-adjusted value over average, fifth in point differential, and fourth in expected points added per play on offense.
Whoever lands the No. 2 seed in the AFC will be looking toward their lucky star hoping Buffalo doesn’t sneak into the No. 7 seed. With red-hot quarterback Josh Allen, the Bills are still one of the more feared teams in the conference – despite their flaws – especially when compared to the meager-quarterbacked teams jostling for playoff positioning.
“We had some bad breaks, some things not go our way, but we do have a lot of talent on this football team,” Diggs added. “We do got a lot of guys that want to win. We got some dogs on this team as well, so I feel like it will all come together how it’s supposed to. I’m a big guy on alignment and we’re right where we’re supposed to be.”
It is yet to be seen how Buffalo will respond to the most recent controversy to come out of Western New York, but Diggs and others have put on a brave face.
Diggs has already done more than enough to cement himself as the offense’s top receiver, targeted 121 times in 12 games for 969 yards and nine scores, but he’ll need to show up once again on Sunday. Kansas City’s defense is as good as it’s ever been in the Patrick Mahomes era, and it is difficult to rely on Buffalo’s ancillary targets.
As tough as Diggs claims the Bills are, there is little more adversity they can handle before being mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. Winning on Sunday would bring them much closer to the destination an Allen-led team is “supposed to be.”
