Joe Flacco,Tyrod Taylor

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco and Buffalo Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor meet on the field after Sunday's game in Baltimore. The Ravens defeated the Bills 13-7.

(Patrick Semansky | The Associated Press)

Baltimore — There might not be a team in the NFL who knows Buffalo Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor better than the Baltimore Ravens, who beat the Bills 13-7 on Sunday.

The Ravens drafted Taylor in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL Draft and kept him as their backup quarterback for four years. On Sunday, he made his first trip back to Baltimore as the Bills starting quarterback, fresh off an offseason contract extension that could be worth more than $90 million.

Maybe that helps explain why the Ravens dominated Taylor at M&T Bank Stadium on Sunday. Instead of Taylor leading a big-play passing attack, he went 15-for-22 passing and 111 yards. He didn't throw a touchdown and completed only one pass more than 20 yards downfield. He also rushed only five times for 11 yards. Baltimore's game plan was pretty simple.

"The game plan was to make him be a quarterback," Ravens defensive tackle Brandon Williams said. "Sometimes he got out of there, but not too many times."

Not too many times at all. The Bills' offense had just 160 total yards, its worst output in a season opener since 1979. It was the worst offensive output the franchise has had since 2006. The Ravens' defense hadn't had that type of defensive dominance since it held Rex Ryan's Jets to 150 yards in 2011.

Taylor finished with just 5.04 yards per attempt. The 111 passing yards on 22 attempts would have been fourth worst by a quarterback with at least 22 attempts in 2014. If the Ravens were trying to make Taylor prove he could pass from the pocket on Sunday, he failed the test.

Rex Ryan and Taylor attempted to explain the lack of a passing offense. Ryan credited the Ravens' defense and blamed the protection. Taylor said the Ravens' safeties were playing deep and he just took what they were giving him.

"We just played together," Ravens safety Eric Weddle said. "One of our main focuses and goals as nothing over the top of us. That's not just one guy, that's all four of us or five or six depending on the situation. We've very conscious of what can beat us, and we're playing together ... We want to take away the weapons they have against us and, for them, it was the deep shots on the plays up the field, and we wanted to make them beat us some other way."

Taylor and the Bills were incapable of beating the Ravens another way on Sunday. The offensive line couldn't open up any holes for LeSean McCoy, who averaged 3.6 yards per carry. Buffalo's pass protection was subpar, and receivers couldn't make anything happen after the catch on short completions.

Now the Bills have to prove they can beat teams another way. Not every team will have the Ravens' defense, but Baltimore just put together the blueprint for slowing down what looked like a dangerous offense on paper. Offensive coordinator Greg Roman has to figure out how to scheme up a more effective offense. Taylor has to run it better, too. Next time a team wants to "make him be a quarterback," as Williams put it, Taylor has to do a better job of it than he did on Sunday.