A former Buffalo Bills defensive back earned some instant respect this week from fans after making a tough honest admission.
Former Buffalo Bills All-Pro safety Jordan Poyer earned some instant respect from fans this week after making a tough honest admission.
The Bills are the best team in the NFL over the last half decade that hasn't reached the Super Bowl.
Buffalo's gotten close — really close — but they just haven't been able to make the big play at the end of the game to get over the hump.
The overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round in 2021, and then a three-point loss to the Chiefs in the divisional round in 2023 are particularly painful memories. Then another three-point loss in the divisional round last season — this time to the Denver Broncos in overtime — plus a three-point loss to the Chiefs in the 2024 AFC Championship game.
Yeah, there have been some gut-wrenching losses in January for the Bills in recent years.
Poyer, who is now working as an analyst for CBS Sports after wrapping up his NFL career following the 2025 season, praised Bills quarterback Josh Allen this week while expressing regret that Buffalo's defense could never come up with the big play to get to the Super Bowl.
"Josh is the best quarterback in the game, and that's hands down," said Poyer
. "He's gonna always have your football team in games.
"It's gonna come down to can the defense make one more play? Because Josh is always gonna have that team in the game — whether it's a three-point game with a lead. So can the defense make one more play? And that was something when I was there, you talk about the 13 seconds (against Kansas City
), or the Jacksonville
loss in 2017, we just were never able to make that one play for Josh. Because Josh is Superman out there."
Allen is obviously one of the best players on the planet, but he can't do it all by himself (he certainly did enough in many of those close losses to win).
But like Poyer said, the defense could just never come up with that one big play to seal the deal.
There's a lot of ego in the NFL at times. It's refreshing to hear Poyer put the ego aside and make what was undoubtedly a tough admission.
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