{"id":19929,"date":"2025-01-17T03:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=19929"},"modified":"2025-01-17T03:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:57:12","slug":"%f0%9f%94%a5-how-can-the-buffalo-bills-stop-lamar-jackson-and-derrick-henry-the-answer-could-shock-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=19929","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udd25 HOW CAN THE BUFFALO BILLS STOP LAMAR JACKSON AND DERRICK HENRY? The Answer Could SHOCK You!"},"content":{"rendered":"
If the Buffalo Bills can’t deal with Derrick Henry, Lamar Jackson, and the Baltimore Ravens’ marvelous, multiple run game, an early postseason exit could be the result<\/div>\n
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Sunday’s divisional round\u00a0NFL<\/a>\u00a0playoff game between the\u00a0Buffalo Bills<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Baltimore Ravens<\/a>\u00a0at Buffalo’s Highmark Stadium is one of the most highly-anticipated contests of the 2024 season. Which is interesting, because when these two teams played in Week 4 of the regular season, it wasn’t even close. The Ravens beat the Bills up and down the field on both sides of the ball in a 35-10 trouncing.<\/p>\n

Lamar Jackson<\/a>\u00a0completed 13 of 18 passes for 156 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions, and a passer rating of 135.4. On the other side of the game (and, as it turned out, on the other side of the NFL Most Valuable Player conversation),\u00a0Josh Allen<\/a>\u00a0completed 16 of 29 passes for 180 yards, no touchdowns, no interceptions, and a passer rating of 73.9. And this was well before Baltimore’s marvelous defensive resurgence in the second half of the season.<\/p>\n

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But this game wasn’t about the passers, or Baltimore’s defense. The Ravens had signed running back\u00a0Derrick Henry<\/a>\u00a0to a two-year, $16 million free-agent contract before the season, and this was the game in which Henry started to make that look like one of the best bargains in recent NFL history. Henry had run for 151 yards and two touchdowns the week before against the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys<\/a>‘ leaky run defense, but against the Bills and their ostensibly more consistent and disciplined defense, he did his new opponents one better, putting up 199 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries.<\/p>\n