Bills' Ability To Dethrone Eagles Down To 1 Key Thing

The Buffalo Bills will enter the 2025 season in perhaps the best position since the early 90s to finally claim their maiden Super Bowl trophy.

Josh Allen is the defending MVP, the offense again looks to be well-rounded with a good mix of pass-catchers and a good run game. The defense has had an overhaul of sorts with a host of key players signed in free agency, not to mention the first five picks in the NFL Draft were on defense.

The biggest bugaboo for Sean McDermott's team is whether or not this new-look defense can come through in the clutch, something it couldn't do last season.

Joey Bosa, Michael Hoecht, and Larry Ogunjobi will all bring some nice pass rush juice and for NFL.com's Jeffri Chadiha, the Bills are one of the teams he thinks can dethrone the Philadelphia Eagles in 2025, if the defense gets rolling.

"There's no reason to wonder about who's going to step up with this bunch; it's about whether the key figures will step up at the right time," Chadiha writes. "The defense largely should be solid once again, but that's the real issue with this bunch. That side of the ball needs to be more reliable when the postseason arrives. The Bills have allowed an average of 33.2 points per game in their last five playoff defeats. Buffalo also has shown an alarming inability to frustrate any of the quarterbacks it has faced in those contests. 

"The Bills have the talent and the quarterback to eventually reach and win the Super Bowl. Creating those vital stops in critical situations will be the difference in whether that ultimately happens."