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I'm Ryan Mink here with Garrett Downing, and we are going to get you ready for the

Thanksgiving feast at M&T Bank Stadium between the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals.

Huge game between two division rivals. And Garrett, I just cannot wait for this one. This game has all the gravy. Served in a beautiful gravy boat. That's right. I don't know if you were planning that, but that was well done on your part there. We are giving away gravy boats to fans. That's the giveaway. I got mine ahead of time. You did. Yeah. Well, for fans who were

coming to the game, Thursday night at Emory Bay Stadium, you can get your gravy boat. And this is an awesome game. This is a headliner when the schedule comes out and you see the prime time games. You see that the Ravens are playing on Thanksgiving at home against the Bengals and this big division rival. I think it's going to be an awesome atmosphere. And John Harbaugh has been, this will be the third time the

Ravens have played on Thanksgiving in the Harbaugh era. First time was against his brother. Second time was against the Steelers, the iconic Mike Tom and Jacobi Jones game. We all remember that one. And this will be the third time. And Harbaugh has said, he said it again this week, and he's made this point a few times. He's like, I would love for the Ravens to be the Thursday night Thanksgiving game. You know, like I like that idea. And loves playing on Thanksgiving, considers it an honor. And it is an indication that the NFL knows people want to watch Lamar Jackson and the Ravens play. and this is going to be an awesome night to do it. Well, the schedule makers gave the Ravens Christmas off this year and decided to move at the Thanksgiving. And it's at home this year, so it's a home game. Take that every time. Two for two. I'll take that every time. You know, this is a game between the Bengals, a team with their backs against the wall, three and eight, you know, they probably, to get even back in the hunt, they got to rat off a string of wins similar to what the Ravens have done to claw back from one and five. The Ravens ride in a five game winning streak. But, you know, all that aside, like you can talk, Bengals have not had a good season.

Joe Burroughs been hurt for almost all of it.

That's a major reason why their defensive struggle.

But like, throw all that stuff out.

This is a throw the records game out.

And it often is whenever you're playing a division rival.

But man, these two teams get after it. I agree with you.

I also think that you can kind of throw the records out when you play on Thursday nights,

like a short week that just feel like a lot of times,

those can sometimes be weird games.

And like you mentioned Joe Burrow,

and that's one of the biggest storylines this week, is him returning.

And he's dealt with that toe injury. Coming back for Thanksgiving

night is earlier than a lot of people expected. It is clear that he wanted to come back for this

game against the Ravens. Yeah, it's circled. There was no doubt about it. He had it circled when the

schedule came out. He was belly aching about how the Ravens, you know, they always have to play us on

primetime games in our stadium. Yeah, this was circled. Yeah. I mean, the Ravens ended his season a couple years ago with the wrist. Yeah. That was in Baltimore. Yeah. And so, like, this has turned into a big rivalry. I think it's not only, it's been a Ravens Bengals rivalry for a long time, but I think it's a Joe Burrow Ravens rivalry as well. It definitely seems that way. Like he seems to want to have big games against the Ravens, which he has at times. He wants to play the Ravens. There seems to be some animosity, whatever word you want to use. And like even on his first day back at practice when he came back earlier than expected

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