Perfection

 The weekend lived off two little words, until we wore them out. Two little words that were were never going to be enough, and yet somehow were all that were necessary.

The two little words were, "No way."

No way Patrick Mahomes could take his team 45 yards in 13 seconds to keep Kansas City's season alive. 

No way Josh Allen could throw a seed 19 yards to Gabriel Davis -- between two defenders, on 4th-and-13 -- to keep Buffalo's season alive.

No way the Chiefs and Bills could score 25 points in the last 1:54, and then have to go overtime to settle it.

No way Mahomes could out-Mahomes himself, and Allen could out-Mahomes Mahomes. No way the NFL won't change its idiotic overtime rule, now that it deprived Allen of one last chance to out-Mahomes Mahomes.

No way Tom Brady could out-Brady himself by wiping out a 27-3 deficit -- only to see Matthew Stafford out-Brady Brady in the end. 

And, finally ...

No way four playoff games could end up as walkoffs -- three by field goals, one by Mahomes-to-Travis-Kelce in OT.

Maybe this wasn't the greatest weekend of playoff football the NFL has ever put out there. But it's Monday morning now, and a greater one has yet to show up for roll call.

Four games. Three Ws by the visiting team. Three field goals as time expired to win; another field goal to force overtime; two No. 1 seeds going down in one day.

All of it capped by Sunday night, when Mahomes and Allen played the quarterback position as well as two men can play, under the most pressurized of circumstances.

The numbers only tell part of the story, but they're a part worth noting. Mahomes completed 33-of-44 passes for 378 yards and three scores, and ran seven times for 69 yards and another score. Allen was 27-of-37 for 329 yards and four touchdowns, all to Gabriel Davis; he ran 11 times for 68 yards. 

Twice in the last two minutes, Allen drove the Bills to go-ahead scores with their season teetering. Mahomes matched him with a scoring drive and a game-tying drive in the same space of time. It was like watching Ali and Frazier, only with a surgeon's scalpel instead of blunt-force trauma.

Consider: Between them, Mahomes and Allen threw 81 passes and lugged the rock 18 times. That's 99 snaps in all. And yet neither threw an interception and neither lost a fumble.

Ninety-nine snaps, zero turnovers. With their seasons on the line. No way they can do that. No way.

Those words again.