Buffalo Coach Adds Fuel to Chiefs’ Drive on Season’s Doorstep

Buffalo Bills head coach disses Kansas City Chiefs on eve of 2025 season.

Jan 26, 2025; Kansas City, MO, USA; Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott against the Kansas City Chiefs during the AFC Championship game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images | Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images

Sean McDermott loves Buffalo. He just doesn’t love the Chiefs, just like the rest of Bills Mafia. And that might be why he inadvertently slighted Kansas City on Tuesday, providing Patrick Mahomes and the Bills’ AFC nemesis with some juicy bulletin-board material on the eve of the NFL season.

“It bothers me,” McDermott said at a Tuesday press conference, ranting about the narrative that Buffalo is a city of losers primarily because the Bills lost four straight Super Bowls from 1990-93. “It honestly pisses me off because people don’t know this town. They don’t know how hard that is, to get to four straight Super Bowls. It’ll never happen again. And that’s where, there’s other things that drive … Yeah, I’m not … we’re good.”

Like one of Josh Allen’s rare interceptions, McDermott probably wants that throw back. He just threw fire on the Chiefs’ drive for a berth in a fourth straight Super Bowl, claiming it’ll never happen again.

Chiefs didn't need any more motivation

Rest assured, Mahomes and the Chiefs – who get the second game on the NFL schedule when they play the Chargers Friday in São Paulo, Brazil (7 p.m. CT, YouTube, KSHB-TV 41, 96.5 The Fan) – didn’t need additional motivation. Philadelphia humbled them, 40-22, in Kansas City’s third straight Super Bowl appearance.

And no one outside the Dallas Metroplex considers Buffalo a city of losers – at least no one born approximately after 1985, too young to really remember those Jim Kelly-Thurman Thomas-Bruce Smith teams that destroyed the AFC but just couldn’t beat the Cowboys or Redskins in Super Bowls.

In fact, the Bills kept the Chiefs from a Super Bowl appearance in the 1993 AFC championship game. Buffalo also ended Kansas City’s 1991 season in the divisional round.

Jan 31, 1993; Pasadena, CA, USA; FILE PHOTO; Dallas Cowboys defensive end Charles Haley (94) strips the ball from Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly (12) during Super Bowl XXVII at the Rose Bowl. The Cowboys defeated the Bills 52-17. Mandatory Credit: James D. Smith-Imagn Images | James D. Smith-Imagn Images

Chiefs 2022 draft class can make history

In addition to Mahomes and McDermott’s former boss Andy Reid, another group can use those comments as fuel: The Chiefs’ 2022 draft class. If Kansas City can, indeed, reach that elusive fourth consecutive Super Bowl, that class will match a 32-year-old record.

Aug 9, 2025; Glendale, Arizona, USA; Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Trent McDuffie (22) against the Arizona Cardinals during a preseason NFL game at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images | Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images

Trent McDuffie, George Karlaftis, Bryan Cook, Leo Chenal, Joshua Williams, Jaylen Watson, Isiah Pacheco and Nazeeh Johnson could become the first group of NFL players to reach Super Bowls in each of their first four seasons since the Bills’ 1990 class.

And, if so, that Chiefs class will be hoping it’ll have three more rings than its Buffalo predecessors.

Regardless, the Chiefs are scheduled to again travel to Buffalo in Week 9 and end Kansas City’s brutal first half that includes dates with Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit and Washington before a Week 10 bye.

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