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Back in early September, the Buffalo Bills appeared to have the makings of a team that would be contending for the No. 1 seed in the AFC by the time the penultimate week of the regular season rolled around.
But Buffalo has come up short of its lofty expectations on the heels of four consecutive trips to the postseason, with a fifth still not yet guaranteed.
Although they have won four of their past five games, the Bills are still very much in the thick of the playoff race heading into a Week 17 meeting with the New England Patriots on Sunday in Orchard Park, N.