Baltimore Ravens vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers Match Player Stats On Oct 12, 2014

SportsDirect Inc. staff
Oct 12, 2014

Ravens 48, Buccaneers 17: Joe Flacco needed barely more than one quarter to throw a career-high five touchdown passes as visiting Baltimore crushed Tampa Bay.

Flacco finished 21-of-29 for 306 yards and Torrey Smith caught a pair of scoring passes for the Ravens (4-2), who found the end zone on each of their first five possessions. Steve Smith added 110 yards and a TD while Michael Campanaro and Kamar Aiken each hauled in a scoring pass in the rout.

Mike Glennon went 24-of-44 for 314 yards with two touchdowns and an interception as Tampa Bay (1-5) dropped to 0-3 at home. The Buccaneers turned over the ball or punted on each of their first six possessions and gained a total of 15 yards on their first five drives.

Flacco capped the opening possession with a 15-yard TD pass to Torrey Smith on an inside move, and the duo ran a similar play on an 11-yard scoring toss just under four minutes later to make it 14-0. Flacco started spreading the TD passes around later in the first, hitting Aiken over the middle with 5:00 left and dropping a perfect pass over a defender to Campanaro from 19 yards out on Baltimore's final play of the quarter.

Steve Smith got into the act 63 seconds into the second quarter on a 56-yard, play-action connection down the left side, and a 46-yard field goal by Justin Tucker sent the Ravens into the locker room with a 38-0 cushion. Tampa Bay finally got on the board with Patrick Murray's 47-yard kick that capped the opening drive of the third quarter before Glennon hit Mike Evans and Louis Murphy Jr. with TD passes later in the second half.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Baltimore’s 28 first-quarter points were the most scored on the road in the opening period in team history. … Flacco needed only 16:03 of game time to reach five TDs, breaking the previous record since the merger by over 12 minutes (Ben Roethlisberger, 28:09 in 2007). … The Buccaneers have allowed an average of 41.3 points in their last four games.