BALTIMORE -- At 4-1, the Baltimore Ravens have the best record in the AFC. The biggest reason was on display Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium: against teams like the Denver Broncos, the Ravens do their best to beat their opponent into submission.
"That's the type of team we want to be,'' head coach John Harbaugh said after the Ravens dominated the Broncos on both sides of the line of scrimmage and became the first AFC team to four wins with a 31-17 victory that was neither as lopsided nor as close as the score indicated.
"That's the type that I think the Ravens have always wanted to be, and we want to be that in all three phases -- we want to be a rough, tough, physical team.''
Defensively, the Ravens rarely have been anything but this season, and on Sunday they made a one-dimensional Broncos offense (all Kyle Orton's passing all the time) seem even more one-dimensional. The nominal effort to establish a ground game was abandoned early, and even though the Broncos lost a key receiver, rookie Demaryius Thomas, in the second quarter when he got leveled on a kickoff return, they had no choice but to move the ball through the air. Laurence Maroney, Correll Buckhalter and Andre Brown combined for a paltry 39 yards on 13 carries, a 3.0 average sprinkled with plenty of takedowns at the line or behind it.
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