A week ago, the Ravens nearly let a 16–3 halftime lead disintegrate against the Bengals, and afterward QB Joe Flacco was none too happy about it.
"When you have a team [down] 16–3, you would like to choke them out and get it over with," Flacco said, via The Baltimore Sun. "The type of game it was early on, I felt like we had the opportunity to put them away a little earlier than we did, and that is probably where I was coming from.”
Sunday, Flacco threw for 381 yards (eight shy of his career high) and four touchdowns before resting in the fourth quarter of a 38–6 rout of Miami, letting backup Ryan Mallett took a few snaps.