It’s not surprising that the run-up to Sunday’s AFC Divisional playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Ravens was framed as a quarterback showdown in which Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen would duel one another all game long.

It’s also worth remembering that football is a team sport where all kinds of elements come into play and that was certainly the case in the Buffalo’s 27-25 win over Baltimore Sunday night.

The Bills beat the Ravens, but not because Allen was better than Jackson – he wasn’t in most facets of the game. And not because the Buffalo’s defence outperformed Baltimore’s by any wide margin.

They won it because in a game played on a slick, frozen field at night, the Bills didn’t turn the ball over a single time and Baltimore did so three times.

In any football, playoff or not, a minus-three turnover margin is going to usually going guarantee a loss.

Those turnovers helped dictate the way Buffalo played on offence, the........

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