JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Buffalo Bills and coach Sean McDermott are no strangers to excruciating late-game decisions in close playoff games. The Bills are battle-tested in that department, navigating several late-game, game-defining situations against the Kansas City Chiefs over the past five seasons. Buffalo faced another one of those situations on Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Bills were down by four points with 1:05 to play.

The Jaguars had no timeouts, and the Bills had the ball 1st-and-goal from the Jacksonville 1-yard line. The choice facing McDermott was whether to try to run a quarterback kneel. That would take [...]