When the Buffalo Bills take the field Sunday night to host the Baltimore Ravens in the final home opener at Highmark Stadium, they will do so with 10 of 11 starters back from a 2024 offense that set the franchise scoring record with 525 points. And it’s an easy argument to make that the 11th starter - wide receiver Joshua Palmer replacing Amari Cooper - is a definitive upgrade.

The defense is another story, though. It was a unit that last year struggled mightily to get off the field (29th in third-down defense), and gave up the most passing yards (3,843) and third-most points (368) in the eight-year McDermott era.

Given the defensive shortcomings, there are only a handful of teams the Bills would have preferred to avoid on opening night, and Lamar Jackson’s Ravens are certainly amon

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