Cold Takes Revisited
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
The Athletic
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Almost every take comes scorching hot, right out of the oven. Some of them get cold awfully fast. But the good news about those cold takes is that we can learn a thing or two from them! So, what did our cold takes from 2024 teach us about the NFL and the way we think about it? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig back in the shadowy past and bring it to light on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- The Jaguars are a playoff-quality team
- The Texans offense is elite
- Giants over Broncos and Commanders in the Wins Pool
- Everything about the Commanders
- Missing on the Eagles and Vikings defense
- Buying Jerod Mayo and the Patriots defense
- More pass-catchers is always good! (Stefon Diggs and Keenan Allen additions)
- Where was our 49ers doubt?
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Today we're having some tough conversations. |
| 0:09.1 | This is our Cold Takes Revisited show. We did this last off season, going back and kind of digging through forensically the biggest misses that we had in predicting the previous season. |
| 0:21.3 | So we had a bunch of them this year. |
| 0:23.1 | Both Derek and I were very wrong about Washington. |
| 0:25.6 | We were pretty wrong about the Eagles. |
| 0:27.9 | Derek said the Jags were going to be a playoff team. |
| 0:30.5 | I said the Texans were going to go to the Super Bowl. |
| 0:32.9 | So there are a lot of misses that we're going to chat through today. |
| 0:35.8 | You know, as a way to punish ourselves |
| 0:37.6 | and keep us accountable, but also hopefully as a way to learn some lessons that we can take |
| 0:42.5 | with us moving forward so we don't do the same thing again. So let's get to that conversation |
| 0:47.5 | with Derek Klesson right now. |
| 0:59.0 | It's a day of atonement on the athletic football show. |
| 1:01.9 | We're going to have some mea copas this afternoon. |
| 1:03.1 | We did the show last year. |
| 1:04.3 | I really enjoyed doing it. |
| 1:08.1 | I think it's a good way to create an error of accountability, |
| 1:13.1 | but also to potentially learn some things. So here to help me dig into our cold, cold takes from the 2024 preseason. It is my co-host here at the athletic football |
| 1:19.6 | show. Derek, how you doing it, man? So it's a fun one. Going back and looking at some of the |
| 1:24.7 | trying to gather material for this, it's just, some of them I knew I said, right? |
| 1:29.2 | Like I knew, we'll get to them, but I knew I already had, those were not some of my best takes. And then you look back at some of your old notes from, you know, season previews and all that jazz. And you're like, I really said that. Why did I believe that? And so it's, you kind of learn about yourself and like, what are some of the traps that traps that I tend to fall into and what are the ones I need to maybe avoid this off season. |
| 1:49.1 | And that's what we're trying to do today. This is not about self-flagellation. This is about trying to be better moving forward and how we can take some of these lessons and potentially apply them to the 2025 season and beyond. |
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