Running back Ray Rice rushed for 104 yards and two touchdowns, quarterback Joe Flacco completed almost 63 percent of his passes en route to 270 yards, and rookie wide receiver Torrey Smith amassed 165 yards on six catches in the Ravens’ 31-24 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on Nov. 20.

But the one aspect that stuck out to Cincinnati coach Marvin Lewis was the team’s inability to avoid penalties, especially of the pre-snap variety. Of the Bengals’ six penalties that day, three were false starts that put the offense in tough spots.

“The thing that we can’t have are the penalties we had in that game,” Lewis said during his news conference Monday. “We had some pre-snap penalties and some things in that game that really caused us an issue. That’s the thing going in this week. We’ve got to have crispness about us, and we’ve got to use the cadences to our advantage and play that way.”