Beginning: 8:15 pm, Bills Stadium
TV: WBAL Channel 11 (Baltimore), WRC Channel 4 (Washington, DC), WRDE Channel 31 (Salisbury), WGAL Channel 8 (York / Harrisburg / Lancaster), NBC team (Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, Michele Tafoya)
Radio: WBAL (1090 AM / 101.5 FM) and 98 Rock (97.9 FM), Ravens team (Gerry Sandusky, Dennis Pitta); Westwood One Sports (Tom McCarthy, Ross Tucker); WDCN La Nueva 87.7 in the Ravens app: (David Andrade, Gustavo Salazar, Ximena Lugo Latorre)
The Ravens hope to reach the AFC Championship Game for the first time since the 2012 Super Bowl season. The Bills haven’t made it to the conference championship game since 1993.
Baltimore leads the series of all time, 6-3, and this is the first tiebreaker game between Ravens and Bills. They last faced each other in Week 14 in 2019, when the Ravens won, 24 to 17, in New York. Lamar Jackson launched three touchdown passes, completing 16 from 25 to 145 yards in a windy day. Ravens’ cornerback Marcus Peters secured the victory by interrupting a pass on the fourth descent near the goal line, with 63 seconds left. Devin Singletary ran for 89 yards for Buffalo, while Josh Allen completed 17 of 39 passes for 146 yards and a touchdown.
Which quarterback taken in the 2018 draft will have the best night?
The two young defenders use their athleticism to keep the defense under constant pressure. Jackson has been electrifying during Baltimore’s current six-game winning streak. Allen is a powerful runner with a huge arm and his completion percentage jumped from 58.8 percent in 2019 to 69.2 percent in 2020. Coming from the first playoff wins of their careers, Jackson and Allen enter this game with confidence supreme. One of them will take your team to the conference championship.
Can the Ravens follow their great victory?
Jackson’s youngest players and the Ravens took the monkey off their backs with their first playoff victory last week – the first in Baltimore since 2014. It was an exciting victory over the Titans team that took the Ravens out of the playoffs last year. and beat them again in 2020. The Ravens don’t have the same feelings of “revenge” in this game, but they have to play with the same intensity.
Can the Ravens’ seven front ends make Bills one-dimensional?
Baltimore was excellent against last week’s race, limiting Derrick Henry to just 40 yards in 18 races. If the Ravens shut down the leader of the Bills team, Devin Singletary, that would put even more burden on Allen and Diggs to carry Buffalo’s attack, and that may not be enough.
Ravens vs. Cornerbacks BillsWRStefon Diggs
Last weekend, the Ravens faced a 1,000-yard physical receiver at AJ Brown. In this game, they face Diggs, who led the league in receptions (127) and reception yards (1,535). Marlon Humphrey had a difficult start against Brown last week, but closed it when it mattered most. Marcus Peters had the decisive interception against Tennessee, and he is known for making great moves in clutch moments. The score is 7-1 when Diggs passes 100 yards at the reception. The elite corners of the Ravens will be determined to eliminate it.
Ravens running game against defense Bills
Baltimore has run for at least 230 yards in five of his last six games, all of them victories. Buffalo took 17th place against the race this season and had problems with the running quarterbacks, so this will be a big test for the Bills. The Ravens have the potential to dominate on the ground, led by the race of JK Dobbins, Gus Edwards and Jackson.
Ravens rush against Josh Allen
Allen is difficult to capture and take down. But the Ravens hope to create constant pressure on the Buffalo quarterback, whether that means blitzing often or not. Ravens’ defensive coordinator, Wink Martindale, loves the challenge of strategizing against a prominent defender, and the Baltimore defense is healthier than ever. Martindale bombed Allen several times with great success last year, but he proved to be better at handling it this year.