Buffalo Bills kicker Tyler Bass may as well be Lloyd Christmas from Dumb and Dumber to the Bills Mafia in that after a rocky start to the season, he has totally redeemed himself.
The Bills were tied 27-27 with the Miami Dolphins on Sunday when Bass booted a franchise-record-setting 61-yard field goal with five seconds left on the clock to win the game and make certain sports writers eat their stupid words. Bass did miss an extra point in the third quarter and was bailed out by Keon Coleman, who later caught a two-point conversion pass from Josh Allen, but that’s not the focus here. The Bass-kicker was the hero of the game and he has earned his moment in the autumn sun.
Tyler Bass Has Totally Redeemed Himself
TYLER BASS!!!!!!!!!!!!
📺: @paramountplus pic.twitter.com/0YUMp5a5qI
— Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) November 3, 2024
There is no doubt about how much that kick meant to both Bass and head coach Sean McDermott, based on their emotional postgame locker room speech in which they almost resemble a couple that was reunited after the husband spent a year fighting in the Pacific Theater.
What a moment — an emotional Tyler Bass gets the game ball for the @BuffaloBills. pic.twitter.com/tV5sST0CMt
— NFL on CBS 🏈 (@NFLonCBS) November 3, 2024
Bass has now hit 90% of his extra point attempts and 83.3% of field goals this season, both of which are slightly below his career averages of 96.7% and 84.7% respectively, but we all fall victim to recency bias and his most recent kick was the longest and most important of the year. The stress of that kick also likely took years off of my life, but that’s a topic for a different article.
Around the AFC East
With that win, the Bills are 7-2 and the 2-6 Fins have fallen to third in the division and are hilariously behind the equally hilariously 3-6 New York Jets who managed to upset the Houston Texans on last week’s Thursday Night Football. The 2-7 New England Patriots are in the basement, which feels un-American on Election Day, but also somehow seems deeply patriotic, as they used to be called “The Evil Empire” and have since been totally removed from power.
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