Bills or Ravens: who has the NFL's top offense?
Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice, fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and NFL writer Charles McDonald discuss their lists for the top offenses entering the season - and why the battle between Buffalo and Baltimore continues. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Matt, the biggest Ravens believer, the biggest Lamar Jackson fan here.
Why do the Ravens get the little tip of the cap over the Bills for you, and why are these your top two offenses, the Bills and Ravens?
Let's, let's hear it.
Well, the Ravens have Rashod Bateman and the Bills don't.
Uh, next question.
No, but seriously, I do think I like, I do actually trust the pass catchers in Baltimore over Buffalo, which is a big part of the reason why I broke the tie in favor of them.
And I, I still think Derrick Henry is a really good running back.
I think that offensive line in Baltimore really overperformed expectations.
I probably, I think the Bills have the better offensive line.
So again, like these are very, very close, but yeah, I did kind of come down to the pass catchers for me, that Rashod Bateman, Zay Flowers, really nice 12 punch at the wide receiver position.
The likely injury right now is a little bit of a bummer.
He's kind of questionable for week one, but you know, Mark Andrews is still a good player too, so Buffalo, they're probably gonna run out like Keion Coleman at X again and Josh Palmer at the flanker, and that's just gonna be a lot of Khalil Shakir getting targets underneath.
So there's a like a collection of pass-catching talent here.
I just think the group in Baltimore is a little bit better than Buffalo.
Charles.
What about you?
How'd you split the difference?
I'm an offensive line for, I guess my tiebreaker.
Baltimore, I was too low on their offensive line last year.
I still think saying they overperformed is kind of accurate.
You know, it's still not like a group of world beaters, but they blocked well enough that two Hall of Fame football players in their prime can go out there and absolutely demolish.
So that's good.
I made on Lamar, Rashod Bateman, like the extension there, like this is gonna be an elite offense, but I just thought that Buffalo's offense was a little more sturdy.
Last year we learned something really cool about Josh Allen where what does Josh Allen look like without Stefon Diggs?
Well, I guess he looks.
Like the MVP.
I think it makes you hard to defend when your quarterback is so good, your offensive line is so good.
I actually really like the Josh Palmer signing for them because he's probably just like an average starting receiver, but that's probably all they really needed.
They have enough.
They have enough of them to win MVP again.
The offensive line's awesome, the running the ball.
I don't know.
I don't really have too much to say besides that.