For the second year in a row, the Ravens are 0-1 after one week, but this time, they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. For the 17th time under John Harbaugh, they squandered a double-digit lead in the second half. Even if such a lead isn’t necessarily safe against Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, it is a worrying trend.
Worrying enough for one veteran Ravens beat writer to call them “an impossible team to trust”. That’s the argument Jeff Zrebiec posited for The Athletic following Baltimore’s opening-game letdown. They held a 15-point lead with under five minutes to play, but couldn’t move the ball in the fourth quarter.