Should Ravens Feel Better Than Bills After Thriller? Greg Olsen Makes the Case
In the moment, Sunday's instant classic between the Baltimore Ravens and Buffalo Bills seemed like a catastrophic loss for Lamar Jackson's squad, while the win was euphoric for Josh Allen's team. But moving forward, the final result might not be the indicator of what's to come.
That's how Greg Olsen feels about the Bills' 41-40 win on Sunday night, in which Buffalo came back from a 15-point deficit in the fourth quarter. In fact, the NFL on FOX analyst feels slightly better about the Ravens moving forward than the team they took down because of how they were able to get out to a lead in the first place.
"When the dust settles, when you look at which model is more sustainable, it just seems like so much of the workload falls on Josh Allen," Olsen said on FS1's "Wake Up Barstool." "It's just really hard to count on Superman performances from one guy every single week throughout the course of the season. But if I'm Baltimore, I'm saying, ‘You know what? It took a Herculean effort by Josh Allen. Some things didn’t go our way. We were on the road in a really hard place to play.'
"As heartbreaking as the loss is for Baltimore, it sounds weird saying it after you lose, but I think Baltimore's in a pretty good spot to have a great year."
Between his 394 passing yards and 30 rushing yards, Allen accounted for 424 of Buffalo's 497 total yards on Sunday night. In the fourth quarter alone, Allen threw for 251 yards and rushed for two touchdowns as the Bills scored 22 points in the final frame.
Of course, the Bills needed every single one of those yards and scores in order to win Sunday's game because their defense struggled to slow down Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry, Zay Flowers and the rest of the Ravens' offense. Baltimore