{"id":46334,"date":"2025-05-13T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/46334\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:49:10","slug":"who-do-you-think-the-vikings-will-open-the-2025-season-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/46334\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Do You Think the Vikings Will Open the 2025 Season Against?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"VMmMu2\">We\u2019ve already learned a bit about the 2025 NFL schedule, with various outlets announcing some of the games they\u2019ll be broadcasting this season and when. The overseas games will be announced on Tuesday morning and we\u2019ll have the full schedule by Wednesday night, but in the meantime, we have a question we want to ask you about our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynorseman.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"qyAvd3\">There are 14 possible opponents for our favorite football team to face in Week 1 this season. They won\u2019t be facing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleedinggreennation.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloggingtheboys.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>, or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boltsfromtheblue.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>, as all of their Week 1 matchups have already been announced, but there are still plenty of options.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Ve1q7H\">We want to know which game you think the Vikings will start off with. We\u2019ll be listing all of the potential options in the poll below that will close before the final schedule announcement at 7:00 PM Central on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p id=\"aGqeKJ\">Personally, I think there\u2019s one matchup that makes a lot of sense, given the teams involved, and there\u2019s an opportunity to put it on in prime time as well. It\u2019s a rematch of one of the best games of last season, as well as an opportunity for one of the teams to showcase a big offseason signing who used to play for the other side.<\/p>\n<p id=\"DS8YSJ\">Yes, I believe that the Vikings\u2019 Week 1 matchup will be on the West Coast, as the league will send them back to the Pacific Northwest to take on the Sam Darnold-led <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldgulls.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> to open the season. I don\u2019t have sources feeding me this or anything like that. . .it\u2019s just a gut feeling that I have. I\u2019ll even go so far as to predict that it will be the back half of a Week 1 Monday Night Football doubleheader. How\u2019s that for specificity?<\/p>\n<p id=\"ubolGV\">But that\u2019s just one man\u2019s opinion. We want to know what you folks think the opener will be, so feel free to vote in the poll and sound off in the comments until the schedule drops on Wednesday night!<\/p>\n<p>  Poll<br \/>\n  Which game will be the first one the Minnesota Vikings play in 2025?<\/p>\n<p>\n              5%\n            <\/p>\n<p>               at New York Giants<\/p>\n<p>              (9 votes)<\/p>\n<p>        164 votes total<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"#poll-vote\" class=\"back-to-vote\">Vote Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve already learned a bit about the 2025 NFL schedule, with various outlets announcing some of the games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[12704,1310,3396,7,29,233,259,1312,2529,6,1311,2609,189,24,3747,234,2110,1124,4237],"class_list":{"0":"post-46334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-against","9":"tag-daily","10":"tag-do","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-front-page","13":"tag-minnesota","14":"tag-minnesota-vikings","15":"tag-minnesota-vikings-news","16":"tag-minnesotavikings","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-norseman","19":"tag-open","20":"tag-season","21":"tag-the","22":"tag-think","23":"tag-vikings","24":"tag-who","25":"tag-will","26":"tag-you"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114499667261562788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46334","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=46334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}