Bengals Host Ravens in Week 17 Prime Time After 4 Straight Road Matchups

3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Sports · May 14

Week 17 will bring Cincinnati a home Thursday Night Football game against Baltimore on New Year’s Eve, flipping a prime-time pattern that had sent the Bengals to the Ravens for four straight seasons.
Joe Burrow publicly criticized that run after the 2025 schedule release, calling another road prime-time meeting "not ideal" and pushing for Cincinnati to host one in 2026.
NFL scheduling chief Mike North had already said Burrow made a "fair" point, adding the league tries to correct trends that repeat for three, four or five years.
Cincinnati went 1-3 in those four prime-time trips to Baltimore, winning the 2025 Thanksgiving meeting after losing the previous three.

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