Suggs helps turn this one into a laugher

Plus, it had Suggs chuckling again: Shouldn't he get credit for half of that safety? "I'm going to fight for it in the morning," he said.

By confining his disruptive tendencies to the field, Suggs made a solid argument that his impromptu week in the spotlight was anything but disruptive to the team.

Things like that, Harbaugh said, are "a small part of what goes on in our building. He's focusing on football, in practices and meetings, then he goes out and answers questions for a half-hour. I don't think it distracts guys as much as you think looking from the outside in."

Suggs agreed: "I'm a professional football player. You've got to handle your business during the week, and when it comes to football time, you handle football."

A cynic would say the Ravens could get away with it all because the opponent was so feeble. An optimist would counter by saying the focus Suggs and Co. displayed post-controversy is precisely what rendered the opponent so feeble.

Score this one for the optimist. Not many guys get the last laughs, plural, after the kind of week Suggs had.

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