2025 NFL season predictions
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
We've previewed every division. We've pondered every lingering question. We've analyzed every roster from top to bottom and back to the top, again. There's only one thing left to do. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman offer up their awards, playoffs and Super Bowl predictions on this final preseason episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
4:35 Defensive Player of the Year
15:18 Offensive Player of the Year
23:09 Coach of the Year
36:40 Offensive Rookie of the Year
44:35 Defensive Rookie of the Year
48:49 Assistant Coach of the Year
55:03 Protector of the Year
58:47 MVP
1:07:07 NFC Playoff Picks
1:16:25 AFC Playoff Picks
1:21:46 Super Bowl picks
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Disney Lullaby, a cute playlist with soothing lullaby versions of Disney songs. |
| 0:11.0 | The Disney Lullaby playlist. Listen now. |
| 0:27.2 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:30.3 | It is officially predictions time. |
| 0:32.2 | We are two days away from the NFL season. |
| 0:33.4 | We're recording this on Tuesday. |
| 0:54.2 | Me, Dave Hellman, Derek Classen, predicting, I don't know, all the stuff that you can probably bet on. Who's winning all of these awards? MVP, defensive player of the year, offensive, defensive rookie of the year, coach of the year, coach of the year. We picked protector of the year because that's the thing that I'm very excited about for 2025. And then we pick the playoff teams. Who we think is going to win each division, |
| 0:59.5 | who are three wild card teams are in each conference. And we pick the Super Bowl, just the teams we think are going to be playing in it. And the team we think is going to win it. So that's |
| 1:04.2 | what we've got on tap for you guys today. Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:13.6 | It's about that time. A couple days from the kickoff of the NFL season. |
| 1:16.6 | We're recording this on Tuesday, September 2nd. |
| 1:18.6 | You guys are hopefully listening to it. |
| 1:20.6 | On Wednesday, September 3rd, the NFL season kicks off tomorrow. |
| 1:24.6 | Eagles, Cowboys, Thursday night. |
| 1:29.2 | David's predictions time. |
| 1:30.5 | It's our favorite time of the year. |
| 1:34.9 | You got to put your name on some stuff that people are going to give you shit about for the next six months. |
| 1:37.9 | It's like one last little bit of dread. Like I'm so excited to just throw all the preseason stuff out the window and watch some football. |
| 1:43.2 | But yeah, we got to do this uncomfortable thing where, yeah, I didn't sleep that great last night because I was like, tomorrow I have to say a bunch of shit that people are going to hate me for and it's going to age terribly. But it's a right of passage. Derek, I feel like there's one of two ways you can go with this as you've done it as long as I have. You can get more irreverent in the picks that you make for stuff like this. You can care less or and just be like, yeah, you know, it is how it is. Or you can be like how I was this year and have conviction on none of these. So I'm like, I have zero conviction on any of my picks. I'm a little bit splitting the difference because we're going to do playoffs and then we're |
| 2:17.5 | also going to do all the awards. |
| 2:18.7 | The awards I want to get right. |
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