Joe Burrow Has a Major Complaint About This Part of His Upcoming Season — and the NFL Agrees

Joe Burrow and nan NFL are connected nan aforesaid page erstwhile it comes to scheduling snafus.

The Cincinnati backmost was precocious outspoken astir his team’s upcoming 2025 schedule — which has nan Bengals visiting nan Ravens erstwhile again, this clip connected Thanksgiving night.

"Playing successful Baltimore for nan 4th consecutive prime-time twelvemonth isn't ideal," Burrow, 28, said past week, according to ESPN. "Maybe we tin get 1 of those successful Cincinnati adjacent year. Please."

However, nan convention is listening.

"It's fair,” Mike North, nan NFL's vice president of broadcast readying and scheduling, told nan Bengals’ website astir Burrows’ feedback. “Once you commencement getting to nan aforesaid point 3 years successful a row, four, aliases 5 years successful a row, whether it's a short week Thursday connected nan roadworthy aliases opening connected nan road."

He added, "When trends for illustration that emerge, we astir apt person to set astatine immoderate point."

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For nan Bengals, nan Ravens matchup has been a reliable one: Cincinnati has mislaid each of nan past 3 games, including past year’s nail-biter, 35-34.

For North, making nan schedule is not a good creation — and he admits that.

"It conscionable ended up arsenic we sewage down nan agelong here, that this was our champion schedule, and afloat acknowledging that, I'm judge nan Bengals fans are a small amazed and astir apt a small disappointed," he said. "Which puts them successful nan aforesaid class arsenic each 31 different teams. Everybody is conscionable a small disappointed successful nan schedule makers."

At slightest 1 personification successful nan operation recovered a agleam broadside to nan matchup.

"Playing connected Thanksgiving nighttime successful a stand-alone crippled pinch nan full world watching, sitting connected their couch, is really exciting," Bengals coach Zac Taylor said, according to NFL.com. "It's why you're successful this business.”

And North besides has a rejoinder for this year’s face-off.

“I’m judge Bengals fans would person preferred it successful Cincinnati, but it should beryllium nosy for you guys to ruin Baltimore’s Thanksgiving,” he said.