Ravens' Flacco defends offense amid struggles

Joe Flacco is looking at the glass half full where the Baltimore Ravens offense is concerned.

Despite struggling this year, including a disastrous performance against the Jacksonville Jaguars last weekend, Flacco is focusing on the positives.

"I think we’re getting ahead of ourselves when, all of a sudden, we say we haven’t played well for three weeks," Flacco told John Eisenberg of the team's official website. "We played terribly last week; there’s no way around that. But the other two weeks, we did what we had to do to win and I don’t think that’s anything we can hang our heads over."

Flacco was a mere 8-of-18 for 28 yards against the Jags and has only thrown three touchdowns to four interceptions on the season. That said, the Ravens are still 2-1, something Flacco believes is most important.

"We did what we had to do to win," Flacco said. "All of a sudden when you lose one and didn’t play well, you act like you haven’t played well at all and it’s not true. Statistically it wasn’t the best performance (in the first two games), but we did what we needed to do to win the football game, and that’s what this is all about."