{"id":47991,"date":"2025-05-13T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/47991\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T23:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:33:07","slug":"steelers-predicted-to-face-packers-week-1-on-mnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/47991\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers predicted to face Packers Week 1 on MNF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh&#8217;s Week 1 opponent may have been revealed \u2014 as <a href=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/05\/12\/record-predictions-2025-schedule-steelers\/83528785007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/05\/12\/record-predictions-2025-schedule-steelers\/83528785007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers leaks, rumors, and predictions<\/a> run rampant with the <a href=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/05\/13\/pittsburgh-steelers-schedule-release-opponents-dates-tickets\/83594224007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/05\/13\/pittsburgh-steelers-schedule-release-opponents-dates-tickets\/83594224007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL Schedule Release<\/a> drawing ever closer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/05\/05\/andrew-fillipponi-ireland-packers-vikings-steelers\/83465086007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/05\/05\/andrew-fillipponi-ireland-packers-vikings-steelers\/83465086007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Fillipponi<\/a> of 93.7 The Fan \u2014 who reported the Steelers&#8217; 2025 Ireland opponent, the <a href=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/05\/13\/2025-nfl-schedule-release-ireland-vikings-steelers\/83594752007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/05\/13\/2025-nfl-schedule-release-ireland-vikings-steelers\/83594752007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a>, and the Week 4 date almost 10 days before the official NFL announcement \u2014 just dropped a bombshell prediction for the first Monday Night Football of the season: Week 1, Green Bay vs. Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fillipponi, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/minnesota-vikings\/347\" data-autotag=\"839728ed-97f0-4c7c-9ea6-299b7540514e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vikings<\/a> being selected over the Packers for the Ireland game has caused speculation to run rampant \u2014 particularly since Green Bay is one of the NFL franchises affiliated with Ireland. He argued that the Pirates are playing in Pittsburgh on Sunday, which could push the Steelers to be given the Monday Night Football slot instead.<\/p>\n<p>One could argue that this prediction doesn&#8217;t account for a potential Week 1 matchup against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-jets\/352\" data-autotag=\"61e70eee-950b-4335-a373-675b010563dc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jets<\/a>, who could also offer a fantastic revenge game for both Aaron Rodgers and former Steel City QB Justin Fields \u2014 but two of the most historic franchises in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" data-autotag=\"c4d4185f-a327-423a-aa54-67a40f9dee05\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/green-bay-packers\/335\" data-autotag=\"2b76aec5-0d77-4545-9a2a-f864de5488eb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> would be must-see TV on Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh&#8217;s Week 1 opponent may have been revealed \u2014 as Steelers leaks, rumors, and predictions run rampant with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[1635,1586,247,265,210,2370,7,27,41,345,2514,2513,8188,226,1066,493,233,259,248,267,330,206,255,88,6,245,338,428,520,57,1636,1602,1982,9,266,426,1980,234,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-47991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-aaron","9":"tag-aaron-rodgers","10":"tag-american","11":"tag-american-football","12":"tag-bay","13":"tag-fields","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-green","16":"tag-green-bay","17":"tag-green-bay-packers","18":"tag-greenbay","19":"tag-greenbaypackers","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-jets","22":"tag-justin","23":"tag-justin-fields","24":"tag-minnesota","25":"tag-minnesota-vikings","26":"tag-national","27":"tag-national-sports","28":"tag-negative","29":"tag-new","30":"tag-new-york-jets","31":"tag-news","32":"tag-nfl","33":"tag-overall","34":"tag-overall-negative","35":"tag-packers","36":"tag-pittsburgh","37":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","38":"tag-rodgers","39":"tag-smg","40":"tag-smg-timely","41":"tag-sports","42":"tag-sports-news","43":"tag-steelers","44":"tag-timely","45":"tag-vikings","46":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47991","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=47991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}