Diante Lee

But I think that kind of speaks to what pressure can do, what pressure with four can do.

And we have just not seen Kansas City be pressured to that degree with only four rushers and a team that was able to put a cap over most of the explosive plays that they were shooting for.

That was my initial evaluation.

But if I'm being honest, the longer I sat with it,

I look at Buffalo's defense and I still see a team that is going to be asking its quarterback and its offensive line to operate at an A-plus level to go win a Super Bowl.

And to me, the margins are just way too slim if you're asking your offense to perform that way, knowing that the team that you have to beat on the other side in a playoff environment would be Patrick Mahomes and his Kansas City team.

that has played its best ball every year in January and February.

I just don't know if I trust them to be able to replicate that if these two teams were to match up again in the playoffs, even if the game was happening at Highmark Stadium.

Yeah, it was very similar to what you saw today.

They've moved the ball at will.

They're the eighth seed right now.

I had to.

I think if you're evaluating down-to-down quality, I actually think that that cluster of teams is a lot closer than what I ever would have said at any other point.

Closer to the Chiefs and the Bills, yes.

And at any other point, I think, than it has been in this era.

But I do still have those two teams in their own tier.

Now, circumstances might change how things ultimately play out, right?

Kansas City's early season losses can end up

really harming them later on down the line when we're talking about teams that are making a playoff run, because there are a lot of teams in the AFC that have light schedules, right?

You think about New England, they've got about as light a schedule as it comes in the NFL the rest of the way, right?