Eagles vs Chiefs will play the Super Bowl after beating the Commanders and Bills respectively

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Harrison Butker kicked a 35-legged field goal that broke the tie with 3:33 remaining and the Kansas City Chiefs recorded a landslide 32-29 victory over the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship game on Sunday to reach the Super Bowl for the third consecutive season.

Patrick Mahomes scored three touchdowns (two per ground, one by air) and the Kansas City team, the top-ranked, eliminated the Bills from the postseason for the fourth time in the last five seasons. Kareem Hunt ran for a touchdown and Xavier Worthy had six receptions for 85 yards and one score.

The Chiefs will face the NFC champion, the Philadelphia Eagles, at the LIX Super Bowl on February 9 in New Orleans. Kansas City will look to become the first team to win three consecutive Super Bowls.

Mahomes completed 18 of 26 passes for 245 yards and added 43 in 11 overs and the Chiefs won their ninth consecutive postseason game.

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Josh Allen completed 22 of 34 passes for 237 yards and two touchdowns for the Bills, second-placed seconds, who were trying to win their first Super Bowl appearance in 31 years.

James Cook ran for 85 yards and two touchdowns, while Mack Hollins and Curtis Samuel had scoring receptions for Buffalo.

Kansas City advanced 51 yards on eight plays to prepare for Butker’s lead kick.

The Bills faced fourth-and-5 from their own yard 47 on their next possession when the Chiefs attacked Allen intensely, and their desperate pass to Dalton Kincaid was incomplete with 1:54 to play.

Two plays later, Kansas City’s Isiah Pacheco took a 10-kidle-short pass for a first try. The Bills then had a chance to force a clearing on third-and-9, but Mahomes connected with Samaje Perine from the backfield for 17 yards to secure the win.

Buffalo took a 22-21 lead with a 1-yard touchdown run from Cook with 2:56 to play in the third quarter to crown a 12-play, 80-yard series. The two-point conversion attempt that followed failed.

The Bills had possession later, but Allen was stopped without a win on fourth-and-1 from Kansas City’s 41-yard, which gave the Chiefs the ball with 12:55 to play in the game.

Just five plays later, Mahomes ran into the scoring zone for a 10-run scoring and followed up with a two-point conversion pass to Justin Watson to give Kansas City a 29-22 lead with 10:14 to play.

Buffalo answered and tied the score with a 4-yard touchdown pass from Allen to Samuel on fourth and goal with 6:15 to play. Kansas City had a 21-16 lead at halftime.

The Chiefs advanced 90 yards on nine plays on their first possession, with Hunt scoring on a 12-run run.

Buffalo scored the next 10 points on a 53-yard field goal from Tyler Bass in the first quarter and Cook’s 6-yard touchdown run with 10:25 remaining in the first half.

Kansas City took a 14-10 lead with an 11-yard touchdown pass from Mahomes to Worthy with 4:13 remaining in the second quarter. Mahomes added a 1-yard scoring run with 1:55 remaining to give the Chiefs a 21-10 lead.

Buffalo responded with a 34-yard touchdown pass from Allen to Hollins with 23 seconds left in the period. A two-point conversion attempt failed.

Eagles 55-23 to the Commanders

With masterful performances by Saquon Barkley and Jalen Hurts, the Philadelphia Eagles crushed Washington Commanders’s dream this Sunday, won the NFC title 55-23, and will return to the Super Bowl two years after its last appearance.

Those Eagles of 2023, already with Nick Sirianni as coach and Jalen Hurts as the quarterback, lost the title by 35-38 to Kansas City Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes, at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale (Arizona).

In this year’s Super Bowl, which will be played on February 9 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, you could see the faces again with Mahomes and company, or with Josh Allen’s Buffalo Bills. Philadelphia won its first and final year of the ring in 2018.

Eagles broke the scoring record in a conference final and deployed a monumental offensive led by Hurts and Barkley, authors of seven of his team’s eight touchdowns.

The quarterback, with discomfort in his left knee, sealed four scores (three to the run and one for a pass) and finished with 20 of 28 passes for 246 yards without interceptions. Barkley, an NFL MVP candidate after an impressive season, also looked three-touchdown and 118 yards per land (7,9 yards per attempt).

Commanders’s fabulous and highly deserving campaign, driven by an exceptional rookie like Jayden Daniels, came to an end and the drought is maintained because Washington hasn’t played a Super Bowl since 1992.

Daniels tried all the way and finished with 29 of 48 in passes, a touchdown, by air and another by the ground, and suffered an interception.

However, the ball losses (three fumbles recovered in addition to the interception) and the penalties were a very heavy slab for some commanders who came from giving a bell and eliminating the Detroit Lions.

If anyone expected the Commanders to shake their legs at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia (Pensilvania, USA), the first Driven cleared any doubts they had two quarters down, coach Dan Quinn went for both with throwing, and between Daniels and Zach Ertz solved the two squeezes of wonder.

They could even go for a third quarter, down, but finally, they were satisfied with a “field goal,” after a first possession of 18 plays full of patience and aplomb (0-3 with 7.57 on the clock).

The Eagles’ response was quite the opposite a thunder that shook the entire stadium in a seen and not seen.

It was the first run for Barkley, who toured 60 yards like a grind downing rivals here and there to seal a fantastic “touchdown,” (7-3 with 7.39 to play).

From there, the locals grew up. First, they recovered the ball after a fumble and, right then, Barkley crowned another frenzied drive with his second score of the afternoon (14-3 with 3.43 on the clock). Barkley had only played two balls until then but the two ended up in “touchdown.”

The men charged the blow but soon got up. A delicious punt phase helped them regain confidence at the end of the first period and as soon as the second began they showed their claws again with a field goal (14-6 with 14.42 for the break).

The forces seemed to balance and the Eagles failed a 54-yard field goal. Instead, the Commanders added their first “touchdown” with Terry McLaurin even though they erred their two-point conversion (14-12 with 7.15 to play).

With the score tighter, Washington also improved on defense but penalties began to hurt the visitors badly.

Thus, Hurts found his first big connection with A.J. Brown and the quarterback sealed a new “touchdown” for the Eagles, who also failed the two-point conversion (20-12 with 1.37 to be contested).

The bad news piled up for the Commanders, who committed another .fumble. They also suffered another painful penalty and the Eagles made it pay with a Brown touchdown. At the very least, Daniels got a counter-clock field goal position for Washington, which closed a vibrant first half by 27-15.

The third quarter was a magnificent face between Hurts and Daniels, both displaying his arm for the pass and his legs for running.

Thus, Hurts re-entered the scoring area (34-15 with 8.58 on the clock) and Daniels responded on the same track (34-23 with 5.01 for playing after the conversion of two points).

The Commanders didn’t throw in the towel, but a new fumble that ended in loss again torpedoed its comeback just before the end of the third quarter.

In the last period, Hurts first and Barkley later, with two “touchdowns,” left the score in a bulging 48-23 with only eight minutes to go. Daniels had an interception to the desperate, Will Shipley placed the icing (55-23) and the Eagles set for the Super Bowl.

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