There is a track record in Baltimore that suggests a good performance this Sunday against the Houston Texans.

The Ravens are a perfect 3-0 after their bye week under Head Coach John Harbaugh and have won eight of their last nine, the second-best mark since 2002. They are 10-5 all-time in team history.

Of course past seasons don’t dictate what happens Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium, but it does show the Ravens are adept at making changes and coming back strong after extended rest.

Baltimore defeated the Miami Dolphins, 26-10, last season and took down the Denver Broncos, 30-7, in 2009.

In 2008, the Ravens didn’t really have a traditional bye week due to a hurricane that postponed their game in Houston. Baltimore got one day off and came back to beat Cleveland the next week, 28-10.

While the players had all of last week off to heal, the coaches were at the Owings Mills training facility.

Coaches took three or four days working ahead on the Houston Texans, which will give them even more familiarity than they would get in a normal week.

They also conducted a self-scouting session in which coaches take a close look at their own units to see if there are any tendencies that opponents could be keying in on. In that process, they build in a broad package of what they want for the next quarter of the season.

“We built both of our schemes for the first four games, so we will have to kind of take a look now and see, ‘OK, what do we like, what don’t we like, what do we want to add?’” Harbaugh said.

