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NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal

40s and Free Agents: Offseason Preview for 12 Eliminated NFC Teams

NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal

NFL

Football, Sports

4.512.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Gregg Rosenthal and Daniel Jeremiah return with a full NFC autopsy, breaking down the teams whose seasons ended short of the playoffs and examining how things unraveled. From flawed roster construction to injuries, quarterback questions and missed opportunities, the guys diagnose what went wrong across the conference. Looking ahead to the 2026 offseason, Gregg and DJ map out potential paths forward for each team—highlighting looming free-agent decisions, draft priorities, salary-cap challenges and the foundational pieces worth building around. Which NFC franchises are closer to a turnaround than they appear and which face a longer rebuild? It’s a clear-eyed look at where the NFC stands and how these teams can get back into contention.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed human.

0:11.2

Welcome to 40s and free agents.

0:14.9

I'm Greg Rosenthal with Daniel Jeremiah.

0:17.5

When you hear that song, you know it's time to start looking ahead to

0:23.0

offseason and player acquisition season. And Daniel Jeremiah, you are back off the road from

0:30.0

covering the chargers. And now it's time to start looking at teams and what they're going to do

0:35.3

this off season in terms of free agency, in terms of the draft, just like kind of a big autopsy. And we're starting in the NFC this way. Can I give you one thought here before we get going? Please. You know, you get through the year. I don't know if you have this. A lot of times it happens for me after the draft every year. And this time, sometimes it happens at the end of the regular season or whenever the Charger season is done. I'm traveling around with them. You get a little bit sick. So playing a little bit injured today. But I like the Ricola is a good cough drop. It is effective. But it's too big. It looks like you've got a, it looks like you got a charleston chew in your mouth or something like

1:11.4

it's just we got a streamline like we need a flatter cough drop than than what i mean i mean is given me that's a hot take it's been working since i don't know since for like hundreds of years that thing is uh you can't just put it on your tongue no one's going to see it if it's just on your tongue. You don't have to do it like a dip.

1:28.2

No, it's like a big cube. It's like that car, like that cube car that like you see it. This is like Cuban cough drop form. You can't. You can't do it when you're working in this medium. So just a frustration of mine. I just wanted to voice that as we get into the off season. It also would be disrespectful to have it, you know, to our 40s and free agents

1:46.0

listeners in your mouth while you're doing this show.

1:48.4

It also doubles, though, as like a candy for kids, just, you know, like...

1:52.4

I thought you're going to say as a doorstop.

1:56.4

Let's go through the NFC teams, and we're going to get ambitious here.

2:01.4

We're actually going to go through every NFC team that is no longer in the playoffs.

2:06.3

So that's 12 teams, kind of an overview on some of the big questions.

2:12.7

And we'll start and I'll get going with the teams that just got knocked out of the playoffs.

2:17.3

So I will start with the Eagles, a team knocked out of the playoffs. So I will start

2:18.4

with the Eagles, a team that you know really well. And to me, some of the bigger picture questions

2:24.5

and just thoughts of like, okay, where this team need to go. The offensive line wasn't good enough

2:29.0

this year, which is different for them. We got to find out 100% is Lane Johnson definitely returning? You would think

2:36.1

he doesn't want to go out this way, but that's a big question I just personally have. As we're

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