The leadup to Buffalo’s fourth playoff matchup with Kansas City in five years often lands at the question of how and why the result might be different for the Bills this time.

The possible answer begins back in the spring, when the Bills first gathered to turn the page on their latest playoff loss to the Chiefs and chart a new vision for the offence.

Watch the Chiefs and Bills in the AFC Championship LIVE Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET/ 3:30 p.m. PT on TSN1/4/5, the TSN App, and TSN.ca.

It was their first time together without receiver Stefon Diggs, who’d been dealt to Houston Texans in a financially punitive trade for the Bills that spoke to just how badly the team wanted to move on from him.

Diggs had been the most productive Bills receiver in history, so talented that there were even those who attributed much of quarterback Josh Allen’s greatness to Diggs.

But by last January, the Diggs experience had run its course.

Besides the drama that followed Diggs at times, he simply wasn’t productive when the Bills needed him most, such as when the Bills faced the Chiefs.

In each of the two games against K.C last season, a three-point win during the regular season and a three-point loss in the playoffs, Diggs failed to reach 25 yards........

© TSN