Washington players’ live reactions to Bills-Chiefs were extremely relatable

Anyone still living on cloud nine from this weekend’s NFL games? The Divisional Round of the playoffs is widely regarded as the best football weekend — or sports weekend if you really, really love football — of the year, and to say it was better than advertised would be a sweeping understatement.

It sounds impossible, but a quick summary (three walk-off field goals as time expired and a walk-off touchdown on the first possession of overtime) of the games don’t begin to do justice to how crazy they were.

With that said, the Sunday night thriller between the  Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs was the clear standout from the weekend.

Between 21 points being scored in the final 1:54 of regulation, Patrick Mahomes leading a game-tying field goal drive with 13 seconds remaining and Gabriel Davis putting together maybe the greatest playoff performance by a wide receiver in NFL history, this game is right up there with the all-time greats.

For anyone who watched and was left speechless, the following reactions from players on the Washington Football Team were extremely relatable.

We’ll start with Jonathan Allen, the team’s player of the season.

These Washington Football Team players were in awe watching Sunday night’s thriller between the Chiefs and Bills.

Madness. Greatness. Absolute chaos. Those are just some of the words that come to mind when describing last night’s game. There was a point where Tyreek Hill’s 64-yard touchdown with 1:02 remaining was considered a bad thing for the Chiefs because it left too much time on the clock for Josh Allen.

Little did Terry McLaurin know, though, that this narrative would flip to the Bills’ perspective after Davis’ fourth TD with 13 seconds left!

Same, McLaurin. Same.

Perhaps the star receiver’s tweet was in reference to Buffalo kicking the ball through the end zone before the Chiefs’ final possession. The kickoff saved Kansas City precious seconds, whereas a short kick or even a squib would’ve made it nearly impossible for Mahomes to get the team in field goal range. Instead, he had enough time for two dropbacks and made the Bills pay.

It almost felt like a video game, right, Kamren Curl?

That’s a pretty spot-on description from Washington’s safety.

While defensive slugfests have delivered countless great games over the years, Sunday night further proved that two superstar quarterbacks going blow-for-blow in an offensive onslaught is football at its very best. Case closed.

Speaking of QBs, it only feels right we finish with Taylor Heinicke, who gave a nod to Mahomes’ pylon dive in the first quarter on Instagram.

That hit anyone else right in the feels? You can tell watching Mahomes score in that fashion gave Heinicke flashbacks to his iconic pylon-diving touchdown in last year’s hard-fought Wild Card loss to the Buccaneers.

If we learned anything from Heinicke’s media sessions this season, it’s that he’d give anything to be in Mahomes’ shoes last night.

Man, what a weekend of football. We’re heartbroken it’s over, but there’s still three games left this season! And if the Divisional Round was any indication, we’re in for a real threat on Conference Championship Weekend.

Hopefully by then we’ll be fully recovered.