Joe Flacco passed for 289 yards and a pair of touchdowns to lead the Baltimore Ravens past the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17-10 on Sunday.
Derrick Mason made eight catches for 87 yards and a score and Todd Heap caught a touchdown pass for the Ravens (8-3), who host Pittsburgh next week in a key AFC North matchup.
Baltimore got all of its scoring done in the second quarter, trading field goals with the Bucs before Flacco went to work. He found Heap first with a 65-yard connection to make it 10-3 with 3:04 left in the half and the defense forced a three-and-out to get the ball back with just under two minutes left in the half.
Flacco went 4 of 5 on the ensuing drive, with the last pass hitting Mason for a 10-yard touchdown with 32 seconds left in the half.
Tampa Bay (7-4) scored to make it 17-10 with 3:05 left in the game, but Flacco passed for a first down and Ray Rice rushed for another to make sure the Bucs would not get the ball back.
Tampa Bay | Baltimore | |
LeGarrette Blount | Player | Ray Rice |
13 | Attempts | 19 |
55 | Yards | 82 |
4.2 | Avg Yards | 4.3 |
0 | Touchdowns | 0 |
16 | Long | 16 |
Tampa Bay | Baltimore | |
Kellen Winslow | Player | Derrick Mason |
4 | Receptions | 8 |
44 | Yards | 87 |
11.0 | Avg Yards | 10.9 |
1 | Touchdowns | 1 |
19 | Long | 15 |
Yards | Scoring | Defense | ||||||
Team | Tot | Rus | Pas | TD | FG | INT | Sck | FF |
Tampa Bay | 263 | 101 | 162 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4.0 | 0 |
Baltimore | 349 | 92 | 257 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |