Ravens-Bills playoff preview: Who has the advantage in Buffalo in MVP showdown?
It’s only the Divisional Round of the 2025 NFL Playoffs, but Sunday night’s tilt between the Baltimore Ravens and Buffalo Bills could be the best game of the postseason.
This year’s clear cut MVP frontrunners will meet in a clash of dominant offenses and dream-killing defenses. Both sides have the same boulder to roll another step up their respective mountains. Each needs to prove they can eventually make it out of the AFC side of the bracket and to the Super Bowl.
Josh Allen has lifted the Bills to heights unseen since the early 1990s. But unlike Jim Kelly and company, he’s been blocked before he can get to the Super Bowl by the eventual AFC reps — most commonly the Kansas City Chiefs but once the Cincinnati Bengals. Lamar Jackson is only 2-5 as a playoff starter and, after two MVP awards (and counting), the only thing he has left to prove is that he can deliver the Vince Lombardi trophy back to Baltimore.
One team will be given the chance to retire its postseason narrative. The other will be left to wallow in it for at least one more year. Who has the advantage when these brilliant quarterbacks meet in Orchard Park, New York?