Now that the Ravens' 2025 schedule is out, it's time to make some predictions.
Here are five to get the ball rolling:
### **The Ravens will take down the Bills and Chiefs.**
For Roquan Smith, what immediately popped off the schedule was the Week 1 rematch in Buffalo. After the Bills prevailed in a tightly contested snowy divisional playoff game, Smith said he's hungry to "unleash" his offseason pain.
"That's how you start the season off and that sets the tone for the entire season," Smith said on the NFL Network. "Revenge is best served as a cold dish. It'll be nice to get up there in Buffalo and get a little payback for those guys from the end of the year."
It's the second straight year that the Ravens will open the year against the team that knocked them out of the playoffs the previous season. Last season, the Ravens narrowly lost to the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs to kick off the year.
This season, the Ravens will look to take advantage of warmer conditions in Buffalo. Baltimore beat the Bills last September at M&T Bank Stadium, 35-10.
The Ravens haven't won in Kansas City since their Super Bowl season in 2012. Lamar Jackson is 0-3 at Arrowhead Stadium. The Ravens know that in order to reach their Super Bowl goals, they have to get over the hump against their fellow AFC leaders.
"Knowing that we have everything it takes to be the best team in this NFL and we have to show that game in and game out, and it's going to start up there in Buffalo," Smith said.