Every season, going back sixteen years now, the Buffalo Bills have encountered the “backbreaker.” This is the turning point of the season, where we knew that Buffalo’s playoff hopes had essentially come to an end, and the team was going to be playing out the string for the rest of the year.
Last season, it was a 22-30 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs that essentially torpedoed Buffalo’s chances to challenge for a wild card spot. Two years ago, it was a loss to the Oakland Raiders that appeared to do them in (although circumstances later convened to mathematically eliminate the Bills even had they won that game).