2025 NFL Monday Night Football Week 1 Betting Lines
One of the best seasons in franchise history ended with a thud and the Minnesota Vikings will look to regroup with a game against NFC North rival the Chicago Bears in the season opening Monday Night Football contest. The Vikings won 14 games a season ago, but dropped the finale to Detroit with the division crown up for grabs. Still reeling from that setback the Vikes were trounced by the Rams in Arizona in a wild card playoff game. The Vikings were outscored 58-18 in those two setbacks.
There’s plenty of optimism surrounding the Bears heading into the season. Finishing ranked 22nd or worse in scoring in the NFL in nine of the last 11 years, including 28th in 2024 with an average of just 18.2 points, the club snagged Ben Johnson away from Detroit to lead the charge. The architect of one of the most prolific offenses in the NFL the last two years, Johnson is tasked with turning the Bears into a team that can actually score points. Now is the time for 2024 No. 1 overall draft pick Caleb Williams to show why the Bears drafted him. Opening as a 1.5-point dog, this will be the ninth consecutive game the Bears are catching points. They ended last season going 4-3-1 ATS in their final eight outings.
Bears vs. Vikings MNF Week 1 Lines
Spread: Minnesota -1
Total: 43
Money Line: Vikings -117 / Bears -103
The Vikings will turn to J.J. McCarthy to lead the offense one year after an injury spoiled his season. In his absence Sam Darnold had a career year but decided to leave the organization with a backup role his likely option. The team is putting a lot on the shoulders of McCarthy, whose only NFL action is two preseason games consisting of 24 pass attempts. If McCarthy can replicate his college success the Vikings will be in good shape. However, that doesn’t always happen and in a move for a veteran backup the club recently signed Carson Wentz.
Aaron Jones and Justin Jefferson give McCarthy and the offense plenty of options. Jones rushed for over 1,100 yards and totaled nearly 1,600 combined yards. Jefferson has emerged as one of the top receivers in the game. He had more than 100 receptions for a third time in his career finishing sixth in the NFL with 103 last season. He was second with 1,533 receiving yards and had 10 scoring grabs. The Vikings were ninth last season in scoring and 12th in yards per game.
Last season was ugly for the Bears, which is why the third season under Matt Eberflus was cut short. The start, though, wasn’t bad. The Bears won four of their first six games and scored more than 30 points in the final two games of that run. But reality set in quickly. The fall started in Washington when they allowed a last second Hail Mary TD pass and lost 18-15, the first of 10 straight setbacks. And the entire offense was pictured on milk cartons across the country. During the skid the Bears scored more than 20 points in a game once, which ironically came in a 30-27 overtime loss to the Vikings, and totaled 15 touchdowns.
Finishing 28th in scoring and dead last in total offense prompted a change with Johnson one of the most coveted coaching prospects out there. After allowing a league-high 68 sacks the offensive line was rebuilt and pieces were added to adapt to Johnson’s style. Last season the Lions averaged more than 409 and led the NFL with 33.2 points per game; numbers that improved from 394.8 and 27.1 the year before. Jared Goff threw for 4,575 yards and 30 TDs last year in Johnson’s offense and Williams has the ability to be even better.
The series has been dominated by the Vikings lately winning the last two and seven of the past eight meetings while going 5-2-1 ATS. Minnesota is also 5-0 SU and 4-0-1 ATS in the last five visits to Chicago.
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2025 Monday Night Football Betting Schedule
The 2025 Monday Night Football schedule opens with an NFC North rivalry matchup of the Minnesota Vikings at the Chicago Bears. Gamblers are asking which Viking team they will get in 2025? Will it be the impressive playoff teams from 2022 and 2024 or the miserable failure of 2023?
Despite going 14-3 last year, the Vikings tried to trade QB Sam Darnold during the season, but never finished a deal. After flopping in the NFC wild card round against the Los Angeles Rams, the Vikings and Darnold parted ways. JJ McCarthy, who was the Vikings’ first-round draft pick in 2024, takes over as QB. McCarthy is best known as the QB of the 2023 national champion Michigan Wolverines.
The Bears have an interesting QB situation as well. After taking Justin Fields 11th overall in the 2021 NFL Draft, the Bears gave up on him after the 2023 season. In 2024, Chicago took Caleb Williams first overall in the draft. In order to try and prevent another first-round bust at QB, Chicago hired the former Detroit Lions offensive coordinator. Ben Johnson is the new head coach. Johnson worked wonders with Jared Goff and the Lions offense under head coach Dan Campbell. Thus, there is hope that Johnson can engineer a transformation of what has been a dysfunctional franchise, just as Campbell did at Detroit.
The Los Angeles Chargers and Las Vegas Raiders have shared the same division since their founding in 1960 as charter members of the American Football League. This ancient rivalry has produced great football over the years.
Jim Harbaugh had a successful first season in LA, taking the Chargers to the playoffs. Harbaugh is the quarterback whisperer that Justin Herbert has always needed since his arrival.
The Raiders have a new coach and quarterback. Pete Carroll continues to drink from the fountain of youth and is refreshed after taking a year off from coaching. Carroll is the most successful coach in the history of the Seattle Seahawks, having made two Super Bowls and winning one. Geno Smith, Carroll’s QB at Seattle, is coming along with him.
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