Bills Week 14 rooting interests playoff guide<\/a>:<\/p>\n\u201cJosh Allen beat Patrick Mahomes. He did not beat anyone on the Texans\u2019 roster. So, a Kansas City win helps Buffalo\u2019s Strength of Victory score. A Houston loss widens the gap between the Texans and the Bills \u2014 something that\u2019s important as Buffalo will be the odd team out should the two end up in a tie at the end of the regular season.\u201d \u2014 Rachel Auberger<\/p>\n
Okay, I lied. Rooting for the Chiefs to win doesn\u2019t harm their playoff chances, nor does winning the game do so. Unfortunately, both teams cannot lose. But a tie could muddy the water a bit.<\/p>\n
Look, now that the Bills are the five seed, there\u2019s a bit of breathing room for the time being. That shouldn\u2019t change who you want to see win this one. If you needed another reason, just stop and imagine a scenario where the Bills have to play the Texans again. That defense is legit, and did well in bringing out the worst in Josh Allen. Strange as it seems, Buffalo matches up better against Kansas City, should they have to play either team. Additionally, a Chiefs win brings both them and the Texans to 7-6 on the season.<\/p>\n
Maybe you feel otherwise, and just want to see KC lose and miss the playoffs. It\u2019s not a bad choice, but it\u2019s one that perhaps isn\u2019t considering how good of a team Houston might have come playoff time. With that, here\u2019s your open thread for Week 14 of Sunday Night Football. As always, be kind to one another \u2014 and in all things\u2026 Go Bills!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After watching Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills take down Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals, it\u2019s time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31039,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-79982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-buffalo-bills-discussion","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}