{"id":44149,"date":"2025-05-12T12:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/44149\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:38:20","slug":"predicting-the-ravens-prime-time-matchups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/44149\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting the Ravens&#8217; prime-time matchups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore has a loaded schedule and with the release fast approaching we&#8217;re predicting the Ravens primetime matchups for the 2025 NFL season<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/ravenswire.usatoday.com\/2025\/01\/06\/ravens-vs-steelers-odds-picks-predictions-nfl-wild-card-playoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Ravens&#8217; first-place finish<\/a>\u00a0in the AFC North will give John Harbaugh&#8217;s team an even more demanding schedule in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>With the regular season fast approaching, Baltimore&#8217;s 2025 opponents are set. Their schedule will be one of the league&#8217;s most demanding. They will face the gauntlet of juggernauts in the NFC North and AFC East and the division winners in the AFC West, NFC West, and AFC South.<\/p>\n<p>The official schedule with dates and times will be revealed on Wednesday night, and the immensely popular <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/baltimore-ravens\/366\" data-autotag=\"6f9d8950-4e8a-4277-ba96-ee5ce9eb842e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ravens<\/a> should be among the league leaders in night games.<\/p>\n<p>2024 record<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore finished with a 12-5 record and first place in the AFC North.<\/p>\n<p>2024 playoff teams<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore will face eight playoff teams, including the Bengals, who are among the best in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Home Opponents<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, New England, N.Y. Jets, Houston,\u2008L.A. Rams<\/p>\n<p>Away Opponents<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Green Bay, Miami, Minnesota, Kansas City<\/p>\n<p>Final analysis<\/p>\n<p>The schedule is among the NFL&#8217;s most demanding, including the typical AFC North gauntlet. Baltimore will have high-profile matchups against the Chiefs,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/minnesota-vikings\/347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Vikings<\/a>, Packers, and Bills on the road. It&#8217;ll feature matchups at home against Caleb Williams and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bears<\/a>, the Rams, Jets, and the\u00a0Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>With the 2025 NFL schedule release hours away, we&#8217;re predicting the Ravens&#8217; primetime matchups.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Steelers<\/p>\n<p>One of the NFL&#8217;s most physical and high-intensity matchups, Baltimore and Pittsburgh are always a good bet for a primetime slot.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City<\/p>\n<p>Lamar Jackson vs. Patrick Mahomes is always good for business, and this certainly has a Sunday night feel.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo Bills<\/p>\n<p>An AFC Divisional round rematch could prove worthy of a Thursday night showcase.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens and Bengals are always offensive fireworks, and this could be a prime Monday night contest.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Bears<\/p>\n<p>The upstart Bears have a new rock star head coach, a revamped roster, and Caleb Williams at quarterback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore has a loaded schedule and with the release fast approaching we&#8217;re predicting the Ravens primetime matchups for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[857,184,117,2282,228,86,1574,227,256,85,54,7,1573,1577,856,872,1184,859,6,858,499,169,1602,2517],"class_list":{"0":"post-44149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-allen","9":"tag-baltimore","10":"tag-baltimore-ravens","11":"tag-baltimoreravens","12":"tag-bengals","13":"tag-browns","14":"tag-burrow","15":"tag-cincinnati","16":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","17":"tag-cleveland","18":"tag-cleveland-browns","19":"tag-football","20":"tag-joe","21":"tag-joe-burrow","22":"tag-josh","23":"tag-josh-allen","24":"tag-listicle","25":"tag-mahomes","26":"tag-nfl","27":"tag-patrick","28":"tag-patrick-mahomes","29":"tag-ravens","30":"tag-smg","31":"tag-smg-listicle"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114494905131968411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}