by The Bills wrapped up the AFC East on Sunday night, but they still have things to play for in the final five weeks of the regular season.
By beating the 49ers, the Bills achieved a 10-2 record, which isn’t good enough for the top seed in the AFC playoffs. The Chiefs are 11-1 and Buffalo needs to at least match their record to be the top seed in the conference once the playoffs get underway.
That’s something they never accomplished with Sean McDermott as head coach, and McDermott has targeted that as something to play for the rest of the regular season after Sunday night’s loss to the 49ers.
‘Probably the next goal for us it’s positioning ourselves as best we can,” McDermott said, via Alaina Getzenberg of ESPN.com. “Some of that is under our control, and some of that is out of our control. So it’s really about our level of play every week, getting to the level that it needs to be, and that usually puts you in a good place one way or another.
The Bills have made the playoffs in seven of McDermott’s eight years as head coach, but they have never been number one. Their win over the Chiefs gives them a tiebreaker advantage, but they will have to keep winning to have a chance of finishing ahead of their old rivals from Kansas City.
