The Baltimore Ravens' 2025 schedule was released to the public on Wednesday along with the rest of the NFL calendar, and it's got at least one player fired up.
The Ravens will open the season against the team that ended their previous season for the second straight year. In 2024, the team opened against the Kansas City Chiefs, just months after suffering loss to Patrick Mahomes and Co. in the AFC title game.
This year, they'll face the Bills in Week 1, just eight months after losing to Buffalo 27-25 in the Divisional Round in January.
And the prospect of seeing that team in Week 1 has Ravens linebacker Roquan Smith seeking revenge.
“Revenge is best served as a cold dish,” Smith told NFL Network’s Rich Eisen when Eisen informed Smith of Baltimore’s season opener against Buffalo. “It’ll be nice to get up there in Buffalo and get a little payback for those guys from the end of the year.”
The matchup against Buffalo in Week 1 will be a nationally televised Sunday Night Football affair, and Smith said it's the game he's most looking forward to.
“The first game of the year,” Smith said. “That’s how you start the season off, and that’s going to set the tone for the entire season. That’s the first game for sure.”
Smith mentioned the matchup against the Chiefs on Sept. 28, too.
“I know Kansas City is a great team year in and year out,” Smith said. “Going in there and imposing our will on those guys and not beating ourselves and having self-inflicted mistakes. If we play ball that way, it’ll be hard for any team to beat us. But I know it’ll be a challenge.”
The Chiefs and Bills are the top two teams that are in the way of the Ravens for their ultimate goal of representing the AFC in the Super Bowl and playing their way to a title.