Buffalo Bills defensive coordinator Bobby Babich might hang his hat on stopping rookie quarterback Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos in the AFC Wild Card. However, they’ll face Baltimore Ravens all-pro quarterback Lamar Jackson this week.

Despite their dissimilar stats, Bills QB Josh Allen and Ravens QB Lamar Jackson are embroiled in a neck-and-neck MVP race. Here's why.

On Sunday afternoon, the Buffalo Bills systematically defeated the upstart Denver Broncos in the AFC Wild Card game. The Bills were so demonstratively better than the Broncos that it gave everyone plenty of time to start pondering an MVP matchup between Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, the two premier players in pro football this season.