Cold Takes Revisited

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 68 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 Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... ⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ Follow Robert on Bluesky: @robertmays.bsky.social Follow Derrik on Bluesky: @qbklass.bsky.social Follow Robert on X: @robertmays Follow Derrik on X: @QBKlass Theme song: Haunted Written by Dylan Slocum, Trevor Dietrich, Ruben Duarte, Kyle McAulay, and Meredith VanWoert / Performed by Spanish Love Songs Courtesy of Pure Noise / By arrangement with Bank Robber Music, LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.3	Welcome to The Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Today we're having some tough conversations. This is our
0:39.1	cold takes revisited show. We did this last off season, going back and kind of digging through
0:45.4	forensically the biggest misses that we had in predicting the previous season. So we had a bunch of
0:52.0	them this year. Both Derek and I were very wrong about
0:54.4	Washington. We were pretty wrong about the Eagles. Derek said the Jags were going to be a
0:59.0	playoff team. I said the Texans were going to go to the Super Bowl. So there are a lot of
1:03.6	misses that we're going to chat through today as a way to punish ourselves and keep us accountable,
1:08.0	but also hopefully as a way to learn some lessons that we
1:11.7	can take with us moving forward so we don't do the same thing again. So let's get to that
1:16.6	conversation with Derek Klesson right now.
1:24.6	It's a day of atonement on the athletic football show.
1:28.6	We are going to have some mea copas this afternoon.
1:31.7	We did the show last year.
1:32.8	I really enjoyed doing it.
1:34.0	I think it's a good way to creates an error of accountability, but also to potentially
1:39.4	learn some things.
1:41.1	So here to help me dig into our cold, cold takes from the 2024 preseason,
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