NFL 2025
-
the season just keeps delivering.
Do a lot of fans like it? no. Because there are an awful lot of fans who say they hate dynasties, but will also completely write off a season if the biggest names from the last 5 years aren't the absolute centre piece.
Couple of top teams lost this weekend, so somehow the Bears are now the 1 seed in the NFC.
The Patriots play today, but Denver has joined them as a 10-win team built almost entirely around a defence and 4th quarters.The Chiefs are surely fucked now. The Bengals with Burrow back will now set about wrecking other teams' seasons. The Ravens lead their division with a 6-6 record and don't appear to be a threat. The only really annoying thing is, just as we get rid of all the usual teams, the fucking Patriots come back.
The Eagles still lead their division, but they don't look great, and the Cowboys are catching them fast. The NFC North and the NFC West are complete shitfights.
Defence is right on top this year. No team averaging over 30 points. A bunch of teams giving up 20 or less.
I have no bold predictions
-
I think we'll see a 2016 Leicester City style winner in this year's Super Bowl.
-
I think we'll see a 2016 Leicester City style winner in this year's Super Bowl.
@MacDazzler said in NFL 2025:
I think we'll see a 2016 Leicester City style winner in this year's Super Bowl.
who would be consider a team that fits this comparison that is in contention? The Bears?
-
Leicester Cities don't exist in the NFL. Even though there are still horror shows like the jets and the browns and the panthers that's down to good old fashioned incompetence not structural imbalances like in the EPL.
The current salary cap is actually incredibly close to man cities total salary costs, so even the worst team in the league is spending the same as man city for those results.
-
agree, i was looking for a team that hasn't won in 40 years and no one ever expects to.
-
Leicester Cities don't exist in the NFL. Even though there are still horror shows like the jets and the browns and the panthers that's down to good old fashioned incompetence not structural imbalances like in the EPL.
The current salary cap is actually incredibly close to man cities total salary costs, so even the worst team in the league is spending the same as man city for those results.
Yeah, I was trying to think of an NFL Leicester City, but there isn't one.
There are some shit shows tho; Jets/Browns/Titans, and I would have said Panthers, but not anymore.
The interesting thing is why the shit shows are so shit; everything being equal, so to to speak. -
agree, i was looking for a team that hasn't won in 40 years and no one ever expects to.
-
The Jets.
-
The Jets are more of a Nottingham Forest - occasional bouts of good quality totally undermined by incompetent ownership.
If anything, the Jets are at an advantage relative to the rest of the league because they get softer schedules and earlier draft picks. Woody just finds ways to screw it all up.
-
@ACT-Crusader with a 12 team playoff it does take the lustre off of these championship games.
Yes, but they still matter.
There is one more conference champ to make the CFP. The highest ranking Group of Five winner.
9 conferences are in play, 10 next year when the Pacific conference is back in business.
The five highest ranking champs make it.While I dont have a problem with the conference champs bias in the CFP, it does mean some good teams miss out.
Under the current system, teams ranked 13 to 16 are always going to be good teams, better than a couple of teams who got in by the championship route (the likes of Virginia/Duke).
An expansion to a 16 team CFP would take care of that.
From 17 down the form does start to fall away.The other thing that some have difficulty getting their heads around is that while the non-playing teams this weekend have their order (but not position) on the rankings locked-in, this is not the case with the teams playing the finals.
A good, or bad, performance in the final can change their position in the rankings.
BYU need to be very careful, and even Alabama, if they get absolutely snotted. -
@MacDazzler said in NFL 2025:
I think we'll see a 2016 Leicester City style winner in this year's Super Bowl.
who would be consider a team that fits this comparison that is in contention? The Bears?
@mariner4life Probably would have been the Bears. But I couldn't predict a winner right now.
Most unpredictable season I can recall.
-
The other big brouhaha in College football this week was the Lane Kiffen couching embroglio.
Switched from Ole Miss to LSU, 91 mil over seven years, plus bonuses.
With some interesting clauses.
If he wins the CFP, he must then be assured of being the highest paid College coach.
If Ole Miss wins the CFP this year, LSU must pay his Ole Miss win bonus.Ole Miss refused to let him coach the team thru the play-offs, Kiffen wanted to.
With no real player contracts in College, Ole Miss are scared LSU will clean them out.
Same with the Assistant coaches.Had an immediate police escort out of town, for him, and his family!
-
The other big brouhaha in College football this week was the Lane Kiffen couching embroglio.
Switched from Ole Miss to LSU, 91 mil over seven years, plus bonuses.
With some interesting clauses.
If he wins the CFP, he must then be assured of being the highest paid College coach.
If Ole Miss wins the CFP this year, LSU must pay his Ole Miss win bonus.Ole Miss refused to let him coach the team thru the play-offs, Kiffen wanted to.
With no real player contracts in College, Ole Miss are scared LSU will clean them out.
Same with the Assistant coaches.Had an immediate police escort out of town, for him, and his family!
The other big brouhaha in College football this week was the Lane Kiffen couching embroglio.
Switched from Ole Miss to LSU, 91 mil over seven years, plus bonuses.
With some interesting clauses.
If he wins the CFP, he must then be assured of being the highest paid College coach.
If Ole Miss wins the CFP this year, LSU must pay his Ole Miss win bonus.Ole Miss refused to let him coach the team thru the play-offs, Kiffen wanted to.
With no real player contracts in College, Ole Miss are scared LSU will clean them out.
Same with the Assistant coaches.Had an immediate police escort out of town, for him, and his family!
If it's going to happen it wouldn't have mattered if he'd coached them in the playoffs or not. Should have tried to enjoy a strong playoff run before whatever happens next
-
The other big brouhaha in College football this week was the Lane Kiffen couching embroglio.
Switched from Ole Miss to LSU, 91 mil over seven years, plus bonuses.
With some interesting clauses.
If he wins the CFP, he must then be assured of being the highest paid College coach.
If Ole Miss wins the CFP this year, LSU must pay his Ole Miss win bonus.Ole Miss refused to let him coach the team thru the play-offs, Kiffen wanted to.
With no real player contracts in College, Ole Miss are scared LSU will clean them out.
Same with the Assistant coaches.Had an immediate police escort out of town, for him, and his family!
If it's going to happen it wouldn't have mattered if he'd coached them in the playoffs or not. Should have tried to enjoy a strong playoff run before whatever happens next
With the chaos that is College football, the problem is that all the teams (except the CFP teams) have finished their seasons and have begun putting their rosters together for next season. Which is why LSU wanted Kiffen rn.
CFP teams are at a disadvantage, if they make the final they are going for another 7 weeks yet.
No one seems to care about the non-CFP bowl games these days.Kiffen conducting an LSU recruitment program while still coaching at Ole Miss seems to have been a bit too much for the Ole Miss management.
Tulane (24) looks to have the running for the final Conf champ spot; but could also be North Texas or maybe James Madison.
Utah/Vanderbilt/Michigan/Texas (13 to 16) probably still have hopes too.
These teams are all much better performed than the likes of Tulane, especially Texas rn.
Why it should be a 16 team play-off. -
Put a red line on Kansas City. They're done and won't be in the playoffs this year.
-
Jesus who'd try to be picking games these days. What entertianment. Watched Steelers Ravens - big effort. Rodgers looks good at 42 FFS. Henry is still a meast, but didn't get it done when it counted. Isiah Likely had the ball in the endzone and somehow dropped it after 2 steps - and that's all she wrote baby.
What a comp. Good teams going to miss playoffs this year. Colts in freefall and their window slammed shut with no first round draft picks until 2028
-
College football play-offs are fixed too.
Top of the bracket much as expected.
Shit fight at the bottom tho.
Notre Dame got bumped out at the death, after being in the bracket for most of the way.I don’t mind conf champs getting in, but Tulane (20) and JMU (25) are probably guna get smashed in the first round.
At least this year the rankings count, and they are in the draw as the 11 and 12 cedes.
It’s an issue, the teams ranked 11 to 16 (who aren’t in), would probably deal to those two quite easily, and maybe even to some of those ranked 1 to 10.Unlike another football finals comp that did their draw recently, the top two ranked teams are ceded to meet in the final.
The rankings do count in College Football (sort of) when the draw is done.They are talking about a 16 team play-off for next year rn.
Has to happen, because those teams (11 to 16) getting left out are all well performed.
Money probably the only sticking point (as usual). -
Chiefs officially eliminated from playoff contention this year after 16-13 loss at home to the Chargers and wins by the Bills, Texans & Jaguars. To rub salt into the wound, Mahomes went down with what looked like a serious knee injury late in the game.
On another note, Philip Rivers is back in the NFL. His first start in 1800 days.
