Joe Flacco threw a career-high five touchdown passes on Sunday, all of them coming in the first 17 minutes of Baltimore’s 48-17 win over the hapless Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Here are seven things to know about Flacco’s historic day.

1. He got to five TDs faster than anyone in NFL history … by 12 minutes!

Flacco threw his fifth touchdown — a 56-yard bomb to Steve Smith Sr. — less than one minute into the second quarter. No other player in modern NFL history had ever thrown his fifth touchdown in a game until after the two-minute warning of the first half.

Today Joe Flacco had the quickest 5 TD performance from the start of a game since the NFL-AFL merger. #BALvsTB pic.twitter.com/gVXh5Joi3o — ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) October 12, 2014

2. Flacco’s previous career high was four touchdowns, which he’d only accomplished once.

The Ravens QB matched his career high in passing TDs during the first quarter, meaning he threw as many touchdowns in 14 minutes of one game than he had in the 60 minutes of his previous 101 starts. In all those starts, Flacco had thrown zero or one touchdown passes 61 times. This was only his 13th game with three or more TD passes.

3. His touchdown total through 16:03 put him on pace to throw 18 touchdowns in the game.

Flacco was throwing a touchdown every three minutes, 12 seconds. If he had kept at that pace, he’d have thrown 18 touchdowns and Baltimore would have defeated Tampa, 126-0. Unfortunately, Flacco’s pace slowed, considerably.

4. Entering the game, Flacco had thrown seven touchdowns in five games.

In the five other Ravens games this season, Flacco threw 1, 2, 1, 3 and 0 touchdowns, respectively. That means he had as many touchdowns in 14 minutes on Sunday (4) than he did in four of his five other games, combined.

5. Flacco had more touchdown passes in the first 16:03 on Sunday than Andy Dalton, Jake Locker and the entire Minnesota Vikings organization had entering Week 6.

You can’t spell “prolific” without “F-L-A-C-C-O” … and a couple other letters.

6. In 2012, the year Flacco won the Super Bowl, he went from Sept. 27 to Nov. 10 only throwing four touchdowns.

By that measure, Flacco is on pace to hoist 17 Lombardi trophies this upcoming February.

7. The only other Ravens QB to throw five TDs in a single game was …

… the immortal Tony Banks, who tossed five TDs in a Week 2 win in 2000 over the Jacksonville Jaguars.

8. Is Joe Flacco elite?

Oh, relax, we’re kidding.