The Buffalo Bills will open their season this week on Sunday Night Football against the Baltimore Ravens. The matchup will feature some of the best head coach/quarterback duos in the league.
Bills And Ravens Have a Great Head Coach And QB
Head coach John Harbaugh and quarterback Lamar Jackson lead Baltimore. Head coach Sean McDermott and quarterback Josh Allen lead Buffalo. Both have fallen short of reaching the Super Bowl the last five years, but have the ingredients to get there.
The NFL is a head coach/quarterback league, and when a team has two of the best in the league, it’s a recipe for success. For 20 years, the New England Patriots were led by head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady, winning six Super Bowls. The same can be said about the Kansas City Chiefs, who have had head coach Andy Reid and quarterback Patrick Mahomes winning three Super Bowls since 2019.
The Ravens and Bills are both looking to become the Chiefs and win the Super Bowl, but they will have to beat them first. Both teams have fallen to Kansas City in the postseason over the last five years. While Harbaugh has already won a Super Bowl back in 2012, Jackson hasn’t. McDermott has never been to the game as a head coach, and Allen has also never appeared in the Super Bowl. It feels like this year, the Ravens or Bills will represent the AFC in the big game.
While Reid/Mahomes is the best head coach/quarterback duo in the league, McDermott/Allen and Harbaugh/Jackson follow. Christopher Kline from Fansided ranks McDermott/Allen second, while Harbaugh/Jackson comes in third.
McDermott And Allen No. 2 QB/Coach Duo
“Sean McDermott is coming up on a decade as Buffalo Bills head coach. He has been through his share of down moments, but always Buffalo seems to punch back and rise to the occasion. The Chiefs still loom large as the final postseason roadblock, but even last season â after Buffalo’s front office gutted the wide receiver room and cut costs across the board â the Bills were in the AFC Championship Game and a few lucky breaks away from the Super Bowl,” Kline wrote. “A lot of that has to do, of course, with Josh Allen. He snuck up from behind to win the MVP award, his first. Jackson was my personal pick, but it’s hard to argue with Allen’s coronation: He threw for 3,731 yards, 28 touchdowns and critically, only six interceptions. He also ran for 531 yards and an additional 12 touchdowns.”
“While Allen isn’t the same open-field speedster as Jackson, he’s the closest thing we have to Cam Newton in the modern NFL. He’s built like a tank, capable of plowing through would-be tacklers or sidestepping them with underrated agility. He can escape the pocket, keep his head on a swivel and deliver off-script bombs as well as anyone, or he can slice a defense right up the middle on a designed run,” Kline added.
The Bills have gotten the best of Jackson and Harbaugh in two postseasons since 2020. If it happens again this year, then there’s a good chance it could be in the AFC title game, sending Buffalo to their first Super Bowl this century.
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