Colts' 復帰 企て，努力，提案 落ちるs short in 27-24 loss to 法案s
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) - Colts coach Frank Reich couldn´t 製造（する） another 復帰 in Buffalo.
支援する in 法案s Stadium for the プレーオフs some 28 years after the former backup quarterback 決起大会／結集させるd Buffalo to 打ち勝つ the largest 赤字 in NFL history, Reich could only watch as Indianapolis fell short in a 27-24 wild-card プレーオフ loss on Saturday.
"It´s very hard to stomach," Reich said. "When you get in the プレーオフs and you have a good team and you know you can do it - I know we have a team to go all the way. We had chances. We just didn´t get it done."
After squandering 得点する／非難する／２０ing 適切な時期s through three ４半期/4分の1s, the Colts finally 召集（する）d a 返答 when 追跡するing 24-10. Rivers engineered 連続した touchdown 運動s over a six-minute （期間が）わたる before coming up empty on the Colts' final 所有／入手.
The game ended with Rivers throwing three 連続した incompletions, 含むing a 47-yard desperation pass ーするつもりであるd for T.Y. Hilton that was batted 負かす／撃墜する by safety Micah Hyde with no time remaining.
For Reich, it happened in the same setting in which he stepped in for 負傷させるd Hall of Fame QB Jim Kelly and helped the 法案s 決起大会／結集させる from a 35-3 third-４半期/4分の1 赤字 for a 41-38 overtime 勝利，勝つ against the Houston Oilers in a game known 簡単に as "The 復帰."
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Philip Rivers (17) 反応するs during the second half of an NFL wild-card プレーオフ football game against the Buffalo 法案s, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
A week after the Colts (11-6) were thanking the AFC East 支持する／優勝者 法案s for （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing Miami in helping them clinch the AFC´s seventh and final プレーオフ 位置／汚点／見つけ出す, Indianapolis players were left 非難するing themselves for not taking advantage of the 適切な時期s.
The 罪／違反 欠如（する）d finish in managing 24 points in a game the Colts crossed midfield on all nine 所有／入手s, 変えるd 9 of 17 third-負かす／撃墜する chances and owned a healthy eight-minute 辛勝する／優位 in time of 所有／入手.
Indianapolis also failed to 得点する／非難する／２０ on four chances from inside Buffalo´s 4 in the final two minutes of the second ４半期/4分の1. Up 10-7 and 直面するing fourth-and-goal from the 4 after running 支援する Jonathan Taylor was brought 負かす／撃墜する for a 3-yard loss, Rivers lobbed a pass into the left 味方する of the end zone that went off the fingers of 飛び込み receiver Michael Pittman.
The 法案s 答える／応じるd with a 10-play, 96-yard touchdown 運動, which Josh Allen capped with a 5-yard run to 供給する Buffalo a lead it wouldn´t 放棄する.
"You have a chance to go up 17-7 at their place, on the road, and didn´t get it done," Rivers said. "We kept fighting and lost by three points. We didn´t pull in here today 推定する／予想するing it to be over, that´s for sure. It´s 堅い."
Rivers finished 27 of 46 for 309 yards and two touchdowns, but his postseason 記録，記録的な／記録する dropped to 5-7 at a time the 39-year-old is pondering 退職. The closest he´s come to reaching the 最高の Bowl was 2008, when the Chargers lost 21-12 to New England in the AFC 選手権 game.
"It´s always emotional," Rivers said of a season ending with a loss. "But is it more emotional when you´re about to be 40 and you´re not sure if you´ve been in your last 密談する／（身体を）寄せ集める? Heck yeah."
Reich made a pitch for Rivers to return after 完全にするing his one-year 契約.
"He 越えるd 期待s on what he brought to the team this year on and off the field," Reich said.
It wasn´t just the Colts' 罪／違反 that sputtered at 批判的な junctures.
The most glaring miscue for the 弁護 （機の）カム three plays before Allen 得点する／非難する／２０d. With Buffalo 直面するing fourth-and-3 at the Indianapolis 26, 防御の end Kemoko Turay jumped offside to 延長する the 運動.
And the Colts' special teams could shoulder some 非難する. Though Rigoberto Sanchez landed both punts inside the 法案s 20, 新人 kicker Rodrigo Blankenship 行方不明になるd a 33-yard field goal 試みる／企てる on which the ball bounced off the 権利 upright with the Colts 追跡するing 17-10 in the third ４半期/4分の1.
"All around, it felt like we just kept 狙撃 ourselves in the foot," All-プロの／賛成の 防御の end DeForest Buckner said. "We just let it slip between our fingers."
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Indianapolis Colts' Jonathan Taylor (28) celebrates with チーム仲間s after 得点する／非難する／２０ing a touchdown during the first half of an NFL wild-card プレーオフ football game against the Buffalo 法案s Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
Indianapolis Colts running 支援する Jonathan Taylor (28) celebrates with チーム仲間s after 得点する／非難する／２０ing a touchdown during the first half of an NFL wild-card プレーオフ football game against the Buffalo 法案s Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kr aus)
