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Week 11 of the NFL season begins Thursday with an exciting AFC North matchup. Both the Cincinnati Bengals and Baltimore Ravens head into Thursday’s game looking to avoid consecutive losses. Baltimore is favored at home by just better than a field goal.
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Opening kickoff is set for 8:15 p.m. ET at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. Amazon Prime Video will broadcast the game.
The AFC North is as up for grabs as any division in football. Every team is above .500 despite the Bengals and Steelers having negative point differentials.
Let’s begin with the Ravens — they remain atop the division and could hold their spot with a second win this season over Cincinnati. Playing a clean game is presumably planted firmly at the top of their list of priorities, and for good reason. The Ravens have lost the turnover battle in their three defeats this season, highlighted recently by a late Lamar Jackson miscue down the stretch of Week 10’s loss to the Browns.
Offensive tackle Ronnie Stanley will miss the game with a knee injury, and cornerback Marlon Humphrey is questionable with a calf injury. Neither practiced this week.
Now, onto Cincinnati. Not that a loss this Thursday to the Ravens would spell doom for Joe Burrow and the Bengals, but it would make their road to a third consecutive AFC North championship an increasingly bumpier one. A loss means Baltimore owns the tiebreaker if that’s needed. A win would keep Cincinnati in the mix, which is incredible given the 1-3 start the Bengals had at the start of the season.
The Bengals’ offense was healthy and rounding into form before last week’s home loss to Houston. Burrow is averaging 296 yards passing per game in his last five.
Burrow again will be without wide receiver Tee Higgins (hamstring) and defensive end Sam Hubbard (ankle). Ja’Marr Chase is no longer on the injury report after nursing a sore back last week.
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