"So this is what the Ravens' offense looks like when Todd Heap and Demetrius Williams get involved: touchdowns to the right, touchdowns to the left, touchdowns all over the place.
Down two wide-outs because of injury, the Ravens turned to their veteran tight end and their deep-threat apprentice Sunday to make a mockery of the Chicago Bears. Heap snared touchdown passes on the team's first two possessions, and Williams buried the Bears with a spectacular catch in the end zone in the third quarter.
In fact, quarterback Joe Flacco had his choice of touchdowns on the 32-yard strike he threw to Williams three minutes into the second half. There, in an underneath route, was a wide-open Heap. And beyond him, Williams raced for the end zone, step-for-step with cornerback Charles Tillman.
Feeling confident in Williams, Flacco went for the home run.
"I had one-on-one with him," Flacco said after the 31-7 rout pushed the Ravens closer to a postseason berth. Williams "did a great job of going up for the ball. And I had trust that he was going to get it for me.
"Todd came off the sideline and said, 'Yeah, it's a good thing you threw a touchdown there, because you had one to me if you didn't get that one.' So it was a good thing I completed it, because I would have been [mad] at myself, too, if I didn't throw it."
Heap's 14-yard touchdown catch on a slant to beat Corey Graham to the left was his first visit to the end zone since Week 2. His 7-yard scoring catch, beating Graham again, on the next series matched his season total of two touchdowns - less than 13 minutes into the game.
Playing without wide-outs Mark Clayton (knee) and Kelley Washington (ankle), the Ravens were able to move Heap into favorable matchups against Graham.
"They were going to play one of two defenses, and when they came out and lined up the way they did, my eyes lit up a little bit, and Joe's did as well," Heap said. "Both touchdowns, we got the looks that we wanted.""