The Baltimore Beatdown staff share their reactions to the Baltimore Ravens 2025 NFL schedule.
The Baltimore Ravens’ 2025 schedule has been released and below you’ll find both the schedule and the reaction from the Beatdown staff.
BALTIMORE RAVENS 2025 REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE
- Week 1, Sept. 7 — @ Buffalo Bills, 8: 20 p.m. Sunday Night Football, NBC
- Week 2, Sept. 14 — vs. Cleveland Browns 1 p.m., CBS
- Week 3, Sept. 22 — vs. Detroit Lions, 8:15 p.m. Monday Night Football, ESPN
- Week 4, Sept. 28 — @ Kansas City Chiefs, 4:25 p.m., CBS
- Week 5, Oct. 5 — vs. Houston Texans, 1 p.m., CBS
- Week 6, Oct. 12— vs. Los Angeles Rams, 1 p.m., FOX
- Week 7 — BYE WEEK
- Week 8, Oct. 26 — vs. Chicago Bears, 1 p.m., CBS
- Week 9, Oct. 30 — @ Miami Dolphins, 8:15 p.m. Thursday Night Football, Prime Video
- Week 10, Nov. 9 — @ Minnesota Vikings, 1 p.m., FOX
- Week 11, Nov. 16 — @ Browns, November 16, 4:25 p.m., CBS
- Week 12, Nov. 23 — vs. New York Jets, 1 p.m., CBS
- Week 13, Nov. 27 — vs. Cincinnati Bengals, 8:20 p.m. Thanksgiving, NBC
- Week 14, Dec. 7 — vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, 1 p.m., CBS
- Week 15, Dec. 14— @ Bengals, 1 p.m., CBS
- Week 16, Dec. 21 — vs. New England Patriots, 1 p.m., CBS
- Week 17, TBD — @ Green Bay Packers
- Week 18, TBD — @ Steelers
A gauntlet, as expected. The Ravens open against the blasted Buffalo Bills for what will be a critical tiebreaker come season’s end. Week 3 they face a mighty test in the Detroit Lions on Monday Night Football, only for a short turnaround against the Kansas City Chiefs on the road. Getting to their Week 7 bye week 4-2 is crucial. Those tiebreakers are going to haunt them if dropped.
The good news is the Ravens will have a long stretch of home games afterward. Three straight games at home and a bye week has them at home for a month straight. They’ll need it because their next three on are on road, with a rapid turnaround.
Closing out the season in Pittsburgh for what can only be imagined as for the division and hopefully the No. 1 seed is how it should be. — Kyle Phoenix
The NFL schedule-makers were not kind to the Ravens early in the season, as they’ll have to face five playoff teams within the first six weeks. Luckily, four of these matchups are at home.
If the Ravens can manage to tread water during this period, they should be primed up to go on a run following the Week 7 bye, as the strength of schedule lightens up significantly. Although the Ravens will have to play all but one of their divisional games after the bye, they play only three playoff teams over the final 11 games; one of which is the Pittsburgh Steelers.
All-in-all, the schedule sets up nicely for the Ravens to be in the double-digit win total area, competing for the AFC North crown once again. — Frank Platko
For the second year in a row, the Ravens will start the season with a prime time game against the team that knocked them out of the playoffs. The first 4 weeks are particularly challenging for Baltimore, facing the Bills, Chiefs, and Lions within that span with two of those on the road.
For the third year in a row, the Ravens are stuck playing on a holiday. After back-to-back games on Christmas, Baltimore will play on Thanksgiving this year. Overall this looks like a challenging schedule once again, but the Ravens should be up to the task as usual as long as Lamar Jackson is standing. — Dustin Cox
It’s a tale of two halves. Before the Week 7 buy, the Ravens have some of their toughest games on the year. Bills, Lions and Chiefs all in the first four weeks, Texans and Rams follow. Five playoffs teams in the first six weeks. But after that, the Ravens only play 3 playoff teams from weeks 8 to 18. But that doesn’t include the Bengals and Dolphins who were on the precipice last year. The Bears, Jets and Patriots could all be improved as well. Finishing the season with four division games in the last six weeks will also be tough. The NFL is trying for a third year in a row to ruin a holiday in Baltimore with a Thanksgiving game this year.
Overall, it’s a difficult schedule. But that’s what happens when you’re a first place team in your division. I wish the bye week was a little later than Week 7 but it’s better than Week 4. All of it doesn’t matter anyways. As long as Lamar Jackson is on that field, this is a playoff team. The defense was bottom barrel the first half last year and they still won the division.
All that matters is securing the best seed possible to get ready for a Super Bowl run.
Just. Win. Games. — Zach Canter