Flacco a veteran at righting ship
There have been plenty of instances when Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco has drawn on experiences from his career to gain motivation, get through tough times or just get an edge. This isn’t the first season in which he’s led an offense mired in struggles and faced weekly questions about whether the Ravens can do enough offensively to get into the playoffs and succeed once they’re there. .As most Ravens fans surely remember, that was the prominent question in December of the 2012 regular season. Flacco provided an emphatic answer by playing the best football of his career and Sunday, 1 p.m. TV: Chs. 45, 5 Radio: 97.9 FM, 1090 AM Line: Ravens by 3 jump-starting a Super Bowl run.
“I do not know if you look back at that year. I look back at other years, and we know we can make it happen,” Flacco said Wednesday. “2012 is a misconception, because we were a 9-2 football team and we went on a losing skid there at the end of the year, but I would not say that we ever dealt with so many issues that we can look back at that season and see how we came over it. Each one is different; each season is different. You always have something to deal with — injures [or] whatever it may be.
“Right now, we are just keeping our head down, and it may not look pretty moving forward, but we are going to do what we have to do to win football games and put ourselves in a good position at the end of the games to win them.”
This would be a fitting week for those associated with the Ravens to wax nostalgic. The Ravens (6-5) returned to practice Wednesday to continue preparations for Sunday afternoon’s game against the also-desperate Detroit Lions in a matchup that carries potential playoff ramifications for both conferences. The Lions (6-5) are