Impending battle between quarterbacks for the Ravens and Bills enables season’s two most exciting players to face off
Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills and Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens embrace after the September game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. Photograph: Greg Fiume/Getty Images
For much of the regular season, American Football has a bit of that going. You watch it while not watching it, right until you have no choice but to watch it. It’s a sport you can keep an eye on while attending to other matters.
If Patrick Mahomes is still the king of all modern quarterbacks, Jackson and Allen are thrilling pretenders to the crown. This season in particular, they have been by a distance the two best players in the league, battling it out for that peculiarly American bauble, the most valuable player trophy. They had burned off all other contenders long before the end of the regular season.
“Only Lamar” screamed the NFL’s official X account when running the highlight. Except, a few weeks later, Allen had his own skywalk to pull off. With just over two minutes left against the Kansas City Chiefs — and Mahomes on the opposing sideline waiting to ice this game as he has so many others — Allen took off running and scythed through six defenders on his way to the end zone.
The Ravens have won two Super Bowls but haven’t made the final game of the year since their last one in 2012. Jackson has been the league most valuable player twice in his career but his playoff record is patchy — the win over Pittsburgh last weekend was just his third in seven games. Allen’s is better — six wins from 11 — but like Jackson, he has yet to play in a Super Bowl.
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