The Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals have one of the more ruthless rivalries in the NFL. That could be said of any two teams in the AFC North from season to season.
But the NFL has shown the Ravens a bit of favor over the past couple of seasons when scheduling games between the two clubs. The upcoming 2025 season will be the fourth year in a row that the league has scheduled a primetime game at M&T Bank Stadium between the Bengals and Ravens.
And Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow seems to have had enough.
"Playing in Baltimore for the fourth straight primetime year isn't ideal," Burrow said of the Bengals' schedule. "Maybe we could get one of those in Cincinnati next year, please?"
During an appearance on UP & Adams, Ravens third-year tight end Isaiah Likely laughed it off.
"I've seen a little clip of Joe [Burrow] saying that he wants a game in Cincinnati out there on primetime," Likely said. "I don't even know what their stadium is called. I just know, when you come to [M&T Bank Stadium], in primetime television, I mean, that's just somewhere nobody else wants to be."
Likely said he can't even recall what their stadium is called. Well, Isaiah, it's known as Paycor Stadium, just for the record. But it's understandable how you'd forget.
The Ravens are 5-1 in six regular seasons games since 2022 when Likely was drafted by the Ravens out of Coastal Carolina. But Baltimore is 0-1 against Cincinnati in the postseason during that time, too, with both losses coming at the aforementioned Paycor Stadium.
If the Bengals needed some bulletin board material for the upcoming season, they got it.