The Baltimore Ravens will be hurting after their narrow 33-31 loss to the Browns but could find the going tough when they take on the Bengals in week 11.
The Ravens are 7-3 for the season but will run into an improving 5-4 Bengals team.
The form of Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow has played a large role in the team"s surge up the win column.
The Bengals lost out to Baltimore in October, but Burrow feels he and the team are in a much better space.
“I wasn’t obviously feeling my best at that point," said Burrow.
"I didn’t quite have my full toolbox in there," he told Geoff Hobson of the team’s website.
"I thought we did some good things in the second half. The first half we didn’t have a ton of plays. They did a good job," he added.
The Bengals were 1-3 after the first month but have recovered sufficiently to harbor playoff hopes.
The AFC North divisional clash against the top of the log Ravens will go a long way in deciding the success of the season and Burrow and team cannot afford to drop again in a conference that fields the Browns and Steelers.
“We found some explosives in the second half [of the first matchup]," Burrow said.
"That’s what we have to try to do. They do a great job of limiting those explosive plays and you have to try to find them, because they’re going to do a really good job on offense keeping the ball, running it, and scoring points."
The Bengals will be out to prove a point, pick up a win and move off the foot of the division.
