Patrick Mahomes Had Blunt Four-word Message About Bills Fans Ahead Of Afc Clash

Patrick Mahomes has been present galore times before: connected nan doorstep of a much-anticipated AFC heavyweight showdown looking to play spoiler to Josh Allen and nan Bills' campaign. This Sunday, nan stakes aren't arsenic precocious arsenic they usually are, pinch nan Chiefs and Bills gathering successful early November for a regular play Week 9 game.

The Chiefs backmost seems fresh arsenic ever for nan large infinitesimal amid his MVP-caliber twelvemonth that has seen him propulsion 3 touchdowns successful each of Kansas City's past 3 wins. When Mahomes takes nan section astatine Highmark Stadium, expect Bills fans to get large and effort to propulsion him disconnected his game, but it's thing nan three-time Super Bowl champ isn't utilized to.

"They don't for illustration us," Mahomes plainly stated astir nan Bills' instrumentality guidelines during Wednesday's media availability. "That's beautiful [clear]. They do not for illustration nan Chiefs."

Mahomes besides added that he was looking guardant to nan "hostile" situation connected nan road:

"But it is simply a cool environment, I emotion playing successful historical stadiums, and that stadium has had truthful galore awesome players play successful it. Who knows, it mightiness beryllium nan past clip we get nan opportunity to play there. It'll beryllium a awesome situation for us, and they're loud, and that's what you want. You want to spell successful and beryllium successful a dispute environment. That what football, erstwhile you watch connected TV arsenic a kid increasing up, it's nan situation you want to play in, and truthful evidently they're not rooting for us, but you get to enslaved together arsenic a team."

Bills fans who are still scarred whenever anyone mentions "13 seconds" tin return immoderate solace successful nan truth that Allen boasts a 4-1 grounds against Mahomes successful nan regular season. In nan postseason, however, Mahomes has nan lopsided edge, beating Allen and nan Bills 4 consecutive times making love backmost to nan 2020 AFC title game.

It's safe to opportunity neither squad likes each other, though betwixt nan 2 instrumentality bases nan Bills person suffered much successful caller history and person yet to scope nan Super Bowl successful immoderate of Allen's past 7 campaigns. Perhaps that changes this year, arsenic Sunday's conflict could supply immoderate answers connected which AFC broadside looks much fearsome heading into a pivotal 2nd half of nan season.

Kickoff for nan Chiefs and nan Bills is astatine 4:25 p.m. ET.

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