DEEP CUTS Episode 77: GFL analogs in the 2025 NFL Season, Pt. 1

Scott Sigler Slices

Empty Set Entertainment

Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Every NFL season, some players are so very GFL-coded that we thought we should share which fielding players in the NFL in 2025 feel like they belong in the GFL, and why. Deep Cuts is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs Produced by Steve Riekeberg Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2025 by Empty Set Entertainment You know I love a good life imitating art moment! And nothing gets more art in your life than GoDaddy Promo Code CJCFOSSIG. Instead, it gets you 99 percent of your cost for a new dot-com domain reg. And it will almost assuredly save you a luxury box hot dog! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know what? Every couple of months, we get an email saying, who in the NFL did you base Quentin Barnes on?
0:06.5	Who is Mummo Killowie? Who? I need to know who to follow. What do you have to say to that?
0:12.9	What I have to say to that is it changes like eons, like the tides grinding away against the shore,
0:22.6	like the tectonic plates shuffling themselves to create new mountain ranges
0:26.7	that someday will be eroded down in the sands that wash into the bay.
0:31.9	It always changes, but we know who it is in 2025.
0:37.1	And we're going to talk about it right after this quick break.
0:49.4	Welcome to Deep Cuts, the bonus episode of the Scott Sigler Slices fiction podcast feed,
0:55.2	where a horror sci-fi author and an audiobook narrator discuss things and stuff in the world of pop culture and also in the gridiron.
1:05.8	I am A. B. Sigler, audiobook narrator and publisher at Empty Set Entertainment. And tonight, we are discussing
1:12.5	which players actively fielding in the NFL in 2025 match the GFL players you've read about.
1:22.0	A reminder that this is a bonus episode in Scott Sigler's slices, not a part of any story. You don't have to listen
1:28.3	to keep up on Scott's current tale. But we hope you listen and enjoy this peek behind the story
1:34.7	teller window. Yeah, we hope you do. And we're going to get it. This is going to be fast and
1:39.8	furious. This is literally the two minute offense. There is two minutes, 16 seconds left in the game.
1:47.7	You have two-timeouts, but you also have the two-minute warning, and we're going to go through
1:51.2	this and try and entertain you by comparing current NFL superstars and how they match up with their
1:58.1	GFL counterparts. Ready to go, babe?
2:01.1	Yeah, you're ready to get into it?
2:02.3	Let's get into it.
2:04.2	Who do we start with?
2:05.2	I think we are going to start with the, do you want the GFL character or the NFL player?
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