RSS Feeds  Ravens' uplifting win can't mask team's flaws  Monday
- 11/11/2013, 6:37pm  ET  Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe
Flacco passes the ball during the first half of a NFL football
game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Baltimore, Sunday, Nov.
10, 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)  AP Sports Writer  OWINGS
MILLS, Md. -- The Baltimore Ravens still have flaws in their
running game, Joe Flacco is getting hit far too often in the
pocket and the defense let a 17-point lead slip away Sunday
against the Cincinnati Bengals.  Those shortcomings made it a
little more difficult for the Ravens to enjoy a much-needed
20-17 overtime victory that snapped a three-game losing streak
and kept the defending Super Bowl champions afloat in the murky
AFC playoff picture.  Despite allowing a desperation 51-yard
touchdown pass on the final play of regulation, Baltimore (4-5)
bounced back to stay in the hunt for the AFC North title and in
contention for the conference's second wild-card berth.
"Overcame much adversity ... over