In 1993, for the only time in NFL history, each team had two bye weeks.
If a second idle Sunday could do for the Ravens what last week's seemed to accomplish, the team should petition for it post-haste.
Buttressed by several returning players, a ferocious Baltimore defense executed to near-perfection and reduced the visiting first-place Pittsburgh Steelers to looking like hapless, mistake-prone amateurs in a deceptively-close 21-14 Ravens win before 71,286 delighted fans.
The Ravens (4-4) took over the AFC North lead with the win, their ninth in the last 12 meetings with Pittsburgh, which lost its fourth straight game in Baltimore to also fall to 4-4.
