The Cincinnati Bengals and Baltimore Ravens meet on Amazon Prime’s Thursday Night Football to start Week 11. Both teams are coming off home games that ended with their opponent’s kicking game-winning field goals on the final play.
The Bengals are still outside the current AFC playoff picture, with the Ravens holding a half-game lead in the AFC North. Kickoff is at 8:15 p.m. ET, while the pregame show starts at 7 p.m. Who will be announcing the Week 11 matchup?
Who Will Be Announcing the Bengals-Ravens Broadcast Tonight?
Al Michaels will be doing play-by-play, Kirk Herbstreit is providing analysis, and Kaylee Hartung is reporting from the sidelines.
Herbstreit, who is in his second season with Amazon Prime, has been one of the faces of college football on ESPN since the 1990s.
He has been an analyst on College GameDay since 1996 and, in 2006, was added as a lead game analyst for ESPN and ABC. Herbstreit played quarterback at Ohio State from 1989 to 1992 and was the team’s starter and MVP as a senior.
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Hartung has worked with ESPN, the Longhorn Network, the SEC Network, CNN, and ABC during her career. She is currently a contributing correspondent for NBC’s TODAY Show.
Charissa Thompson hosts the pregame show that features former NFL players Richard Sherman, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Andrew Whitworth, and Tony Gonzalez.
Andrew Whitworth Knows the AFC North
Amazon studio analyst Andrew Whitworth is familiar with the intensity of AFC North games because he spent 11 seasons as a member of the Cincinnati Bengals. The team selected the offensive lineman in the second round of the 2006 draft out of LSU.
Whitworth made the Pro Bowl three times and was named All-Pro twice during his time with Cincinnati. After not starting four games as a rookie, he went on to start every game he played for the team and only missed eight games in 11 seasons because of an injury.
Whitworth ended his 16-year career with five seasons with the Los Angeles Rams. He was named All-Pro once, made two Super Bowls, and won one championship with the Rams. In a full-circle moment, his last NFL game was the win against the Bengals in Super Bowl LVI.
Ryan Fitzpatrick’s Time in Cincy
Ryan Fitzpatrick joins Whitworth as another former Bengal on the Amazon set. After two seasons with the Rams, Fitzpatrick moved to Cincinnati to be the backup quarterback to Carson Palmer for the 2007 season.
Fitzpatrick ended up starting 12 games for the Bengals because Palmer was out with an elbow injury. Whitworth started at left guard in six of Fitzpatrick’s starts but missed the final six games with an ankle injury.
Cincinnati only won four of Fitzpatrick’s starts and finished the season 4-11-1. He completed 59.4% of his passes for 1,905 yards, eight touchdowns, and nine interceptions.
For the 2009 season, Fitzpatrick moved on to the Buffalo Bills, where he eventually turned into “FitzMagic.” He played with nine teams over a 17-year career from 2005 to 2021.
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