Buffalo Bills: Top 3 takeaways from Wild Card win over Colts

These are the top takeaways from the Buffalo Bills win over the Indianapolis Colts.

For the first time in 25 years, the Buffalo Bills will be moving on in the NFL Playoffs after a 27-24 win against the Indianapolis Colts.

The game did not come without its theatrics as following, what seemed to be a conclusive fumble, the Colts were inside the 50 with four seconds to go in a one-score game.

After Bills’ head coach Sean McDermott called a timeout milliseconds before Colts’s QB Philip Rivers snapped the ball, the play was reviewed.

In a review that lasted a year for Bills fans, game referees confirmed that the play on the field would stand; Colts ball. With seconds remaining in the game, Rivers threw up a prayer, which Buffalo has been beaten on twice this season, but it would come up short.

Mass mayhem would consume Bills Stadium as the team had just won a playoff game for the first time in nearly three decades.

While being lost in the celebration of this monumental moment in Buffalo Bills history, it would be remiss if how Buffalo got to this situation was not brought up. Up 17-10 in the third quarter, Buffalo seemingly sealed the deal when they went up two scores leading 24-10.

Rivers and the Colts would proceed to bring the game within 3 after back-to-back scoring drives, setting up the final play.

Following the incomplete pass, a collective deep breath out could have been heard across western New York as the Bills would survive. Now that the dust has settled on one of the most nailbiting games in recent memory, here are the top three takeaways from Saturday.