Thursday night’s Week 10 matchup against the Baltimore Ravens isn’t just a season-changing opportunity for the Cincinnati Bengals.

It’s a chance to return to a nightmare place and use it as a springboard.

Last November, the Bengals played a Thursday night game in Baltimore and Joe Burrow suffered his season-ending wrist injury in the loss.

A year later, the Bengals are 4-5 and have won three of their last four after starting 1-4. Burrow is playing near MVP level with a 70.2 completion percentage and 20 touchdowns against four interceptions.

However, the rest of the organization has not held up its end of the bargain. Injuries, coaching mistakes and roster construction issues have held Burrow back, and some of those factors won’t get much better Thursday night. Tee Higgins will not be able to play againand possible rookie replacement Jermaine Burton missed a run last Saturday, for which he was punished.. Left tackle Orlando Brown Jr. is also a question mark for the game. The team also chose sitting out the trade deadline on the defensive side of the ball.

Meanwhile, the host Ravens are 6-3 and winners in six of their last seven and Lamar Jackson is also playing at an MVP level, completing 68.2 percent of his passes with 20 touchdowns and two picks.

Still, these teams met in Week 5 and the Bengals came up short in a 41-38 overtime loss as Burrow threw for five touchdowns. They’ll probably have to do that again Thursday night, as their running game probably won’t make much headway against the league’s best run defense, but the unit is throwing up an average of 24.3 points per game.

Given the defenses, this will probably be a shootout again. Given how well they both know each other, they will also stick together.

It’s truly a toss-up matchup, with both teams on a short break and coming off losses to inferior teams last weekend. But elements like desperation and revenge shouldn’t be overlooked, and Burrow’s game right now shouldn’t be underestimated either.

Prediction: Bengals 27, Ravens 23