The Buffalo Bills are in a good mood after finishing the regular season with a 12-5 record and securing playoff football for another year.
Facing the Jacksonville Jaguars in the wild-card round at EverBank Stadium, the Bills will be on the road.
Cue a nervous gulp from Bills Mafia, not because of Buffalo's opponents.
But because of the Bills' record in road playoff games under Sean McDermott. The Bills are 0-4.
But it gets worse.
The Bills are 0-9 on the road in the playoffs since 1992. Which means to advance in the playoffs this season, the Bills will need to win their first road playoff game in over three decades, per ABC News.
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Playoff games are hard enough to win.
But now we add the pressure of a franchise searching for its first-ever Super Bowl trophy, Josh Allen not having any star QB in his way, and the previous playoff failures in the back of their minds, and it is all a lot to take in.
If the Bills are to go where most think they can, they'll have to break a three-decade drought to do so.
That appears to be a herculean task, but the Bills have the weaponry to do it.
But as we know, professional sports is 90 percent above the shoulders, and there's no denying that Buffalo is under the most pressure of all playoff teams to break through.
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