I'm getting the general consensus is that the defense was good, but the Bills had costly drops consistently in the first half and of course the two turnovers.
I had a sinking feeling after the Bills scored right before half that it was a sign of more to come. The Bills, obviously, moved pretty effortlessly in the second half and really just abused the defense.
I find it kind of odd that they fixed their drops as the rain got heavier, but they did. And that seemed to be the difference for them.
I just didn't feel like the defense played well. It felt more like the Bills made critical mistakes and the Ravens caught breaks that, when corrected, would stop existing.
I think overall box score wise they did.
I didn't like the pass rush, I didn't like the poor tackling, I thought we got pushed around up front on both sides of the ball, and I really hate the lack of open field tackling on Allen. I know he's a bear to bring down, but he pushed around some of our bigger guys multiple times.
Do agree though Ravens kept it closer through mistakes by Buffalo, namely dropped passes, turnovers, etc. BUT... same can be said about Bills.
People can point to the Ravens offense struggling in the 2nd half, but it started before that. We had a three and out on the last drive of the 1st half, and the drive before that, we completely stalled once we got into Buffalo territory, including Lamar taking (what I thought) was a pretty terrible sack on 2nd and 10 from the BUF 29. At the time it would have put us pretty close to out of FG range. Ravens really only had one TD drive of their own volition the whole day.
Meanwhile, Bills four of the last five drives for Buffalo were 76, 51, 80 and 77 yards. Lucky to give up only 20 points on those drives, and obviously Buffalo would have scored a TD if they wanted to at end of game.