Buffalo remains in sole possession of the No. 2 seed in the AFC. Pittsburgh and Baltimore are each two games back at 10-5. One of those teams will win the AFC North, and one will be a wild card and guaranteed to be behind the Bills for playoff seeding.

If the Chiefs and Bills end up with the same record, Buffalo owns the head-to-head tiebreaker on Kansas City. The Bills and No. 1 seed and the bye week that comes with that in Round 1 of the postseason could still be alive.

The Buffalo Bills got the win in Week 16, but that three-point victory came with some nerves. The New England Patriots gave the Bills all they could handle, and Bills quarterback Josh Allen spent much of the game dealing with an issue on his throwing hand.

Here are five things we learned from Week 16’s win vs. the Patriots: