It was a tale of agony for Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens as they fell to a 27-25 loss to the Buffalo Bills in the Divisional Round showdown at Orchard Park.
Lamar Jackson continues to earn accolades after the best statistical season of his career. Jackson has been named AFC Offensive Player of the Year by The Committee of 101, a nationwide panel of 101 sportswriters and broadcasters who cover the NFL throughout the season.
It was widely understood that the Denver Broncos were not legitimate competition for the Buffalo Bills. Led by the cyborg known as Josh Allen, this year’s possible MVP winner, Buffalo is a seasoned fixture of postseason experience. It is a mainstay of the greater Super Bowl contender conversation.
Buffalo edged Baltimore, 27-25, after the Ravens’ Mark Andrews dropped what would have been a tying two-point conversion pass in the final minutes.
On Sunday afternoon, the Buffalo Bills systematically defeated the upstart Denver Broncos in the AFC Wild Card game. The Bills were so demonstratively better than the Broncos that it gave everyone plenty of time to start pondering an MVP matchup between Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, the two premier players in pro football this season.
With the NFL regular season wrapped up in early January, there are debates on who should be the league’s most valuable player. There are two prime candidates: Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar
Now, Allen’s Buffalo Bills will host Jackson’s Baltimore Ravens in what I would argue is statistically the greatest quarterback match-up in divisional playoff history . The greatest of what will be, after this weekend, 229 divisional playoff games in the Super Bowl era.
Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are the leading MVP candidates, but one QB's season will come to an end Sunday when the Bills and Ravens face off.
The Buffalo Bills trounced the Denver Broncos in the wild-card round on Sunday, setting up an exciting matchup between two MVP candidates in Josh Allen
There haven’t been many more compelling divisional round matchups than what we’ll get in Buffalo next week after the Bills easily dispatched Denver.
Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson will meet in a battle of the NFLs MVP favourites as the Buffalo Bills beat the Denver Broncos to advance to the Divisional Round of the playoffs; Wild Card Weekend concludes Monday when the Minnesota Vikings face the Los Angeles Rams,
The only thing Ravens coach John Harbaugh figures is missing in preparation for Baltimore's divisional round playoff showdown in Buffalo is having the deep and resonant voice of late NFL Films broadcaster John Facenda serve as narrator.