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Bengals vs Ravens: Joe Burrow, quarterback for the Bengals, spoke up about the NFL’s scheduling. He wasn’t thrilled that Cincinnati had to go to Baltimore yet again.
This makes it four years in a row playing in prime time there. The NFL’s head scheduler got why Burrow was frustrated.
Mike North, who oversees NFL broadcast planning, spoke with the Bengals' website. He is aware of Joe Burrow's concerns about the schedule.
North said if he could change one thing, it would be that Thanksgiving night game.
"That's a good point," said North. "You can't fix all your problems in one or two years.
But at some point, you can't just accept that the same problem happens three or four years in a row.
Whether it is where you start on the road or whether you're playing on a short week, at some point we are going to have to change it."
North gets it. There are 32 teams and 17 games to work out. It’s never going to make everyone happy. Someone is always going to be upset about something.
"We got as close to fitting the schedule as possible," North said. "I realize Bengals fans may be shocked or angry.
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But they're not alone. Every team's fans have some disappointment. This is the way scheduling goes."
The league was eager to get the Bengals-Ravens game in prime time. Thanksgiving night felt like a good way to do it.
That is one of the biggest stages in football. Right now, Cincinnati has four prime-time games, and three of those games are on the road.
"It's well-deserved," North said. "They have an MVP-level quarterback and all-star receivers, and they always have big games.
The Ravens and Bengals games last year were epic – we wanted to at least guarantee that one of those games got a prime-time slot this year, and we did.
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I know Bengals fans may not be huge fans of playing away, but it should be great to get a chance to spoil Baltimore's Thanksgiving.”
"One way to make these games even bigger is to keep them divisional," he said. "Thanksgiving is already really big this year.
It starts with Green Bay-Detroit. Then it goes right to K.C.-Dallas. We needed something big for NBC's night game. That is how it ended up being Bengals-Ravens."
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