The Bills held Henry to 21 yards on eight carries in the first half, as they clearly aimed at not letting him get going early. He did start to get rolling after halftime, fueling an 80-yard drive that he capped with his own 5-yard TD run. Henry had five carries for 46 yards on the possession.

But the Ravens curiously went away from him thereafter, giving Henry the ball twice more all game — on back-to-back runs when he was stopped short of a first down. Ravens head coach John Harbaugh said he had no problem in retrospect on Henry’s usage.

“I don’t second guess any of that,” Harbaugh said. “We did what we tried to do to win the game.”

As for the Bills, they did just enough. It required three Baltimore turnovers and a dropped two-point conversion by the Ravens in the final minutes to avoid overtime, and most of the momentum was in Baltimore’s favor at that point.

But McDermott basked in pride at his team’s effort. The Bills clearly took pride in not only stopping Henry but also in defending the city’s honor. A Baltimore-based journalist had called Buffalo a “city of losers” back in 2020 and doubled down on it this week.

The Bills head coach ruffled at the notion after Sunday’s win.

“This is a city of winners,” he said. “They’re winners. I’ve been here eight years, and I consider it my hometown.”

It wasn’t easy, but Sunday proved that true for one day. Now the Bills are one game closer to an elusive Super Bowl title. Win that one, and the “losers” talk will be dead for good.