Dalton Kincaid on dropped pass: I’ll grow from this, but it’s going to hurt a lot

With two minutes left in the fourth quarter of the AFC Championship game, the Bills were in desperation mode, facing fourth-and-5 at their own 47-yard line. Josh Allen dropped back to hand off, the Chiefs’ pass rush closed in, and Allen somehow found tight end Dalton Kincaid with a desperation heave. And Kincaid dropped it.

It was a spectacular play by Allen and a devastating drop by Kincaid, who said after the game that all he can do is try to get better.

“Josh got the ball away. He was pressured and it hung up there and I just couldn’t catch it” Kincaid said via Syracuse.com. “Right now, of course, it hurts a lot and it’s going to hang around for a while, but eventually you have to move on. And hopefully you grow from this, and I think you will , but for now it’s going to hurt a lot.”

If Kincaid had caught the pass, the Bills would have already been in range to attempt a long game-tying field goal, and they could have marched down the field for a game-winning touchdown. Instead, the Chiefs took over, ran out the clock and punched their ticket to the Super Bowl.

Several Bills players said after the game that it was a team loss and shouldn’t be blamed on Kincaid. Bills head coach Sean McDermott said the team continues to have confidence in Kincaid going forward.

“I love Dalton Kincaid, and sometimes they just don’t work. He makes more of them than he misses, and he wants to make the next one,” McDermott said.

It was a devastating fall, one that won’t be easy for Bills or Kincaid to forget. A chance to go to the Super Bowl slipped through his arms.