PREVIEW: Can the Las Vegas Raiders be a sleeper in the AFC West in 2025?

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4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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AFC West showdown: Can anyone dethrone the Chiefs in 2025? Four rival podcast hosts clash over division supremacy, player rankings, and offseason moves. Cody Rourke (Broncos), Q (Raiders), Ryan Tracy (Chiefs), and Daniel Wade (Chargers) dissect the NFL's toughest division. They debate the impact of coaching titans like Andy Reid and Sean Payton, analyze Top 100 player snubs, and reveal underrated acquisitions. Patrick Mahomes' dominance, Justin Herbert's prove-it year, and the Broncos' resurgence take center stage. Will Pete Carroll's Raiders surprise? Can the Chargers finally break through? Tune in for bold predictions and insider takes on the AFC West's most pivotal storylines.

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0:00.0	Why it won't be the Kansas City Chiefs winning the AFC West in 2025.
0:04.3	The 2025 Locked-on NFL season preview continues right now.
0:08.6	This is the 2025 Locked-on NFL season preview.
0:13.6	Only on the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:18.6	Welcome back to the 2025 Locked- lockdown NFL season previews. This episode will
0:22.9	focus on the AFC West. Today's episode is brought to you by Fandual. Football season is around
0:29.2	the corner. Visit the Fandual app today and start planning your future's best now. I'm Cody
0:33.9	Roark, host of Lockdown Broncos. and I'll be your host for this division preview
0:38.3	show. Joining me are my wonderful colleagues, not only from the Lockdown podcast, but the
0:43.1	Locked-on AFC West. We've been holding it down for seven plus years, all of us together here.
0:48.8	Let's go through your boy Q, host of Locked-on Raiders, Ryan Tracy, host of Locked-on Chiefs, and Daniel Wade host of Locked on Chargers.
0:57.8	Very excited to break down this division here.
1:00.5	We're going to take a look at the contenders, which teams will present the biggest challenge in the division to dethrone Kansas City, the most improved squads this offseason, the best players across these four teams.
1:11.5	And we're also going to give our division finish predictions here on today's show.
1:17.1	So let's start here, really kind of with the end.
1:20.1	The Kansas City Chiefs going into the season, they are the favorites to win the division this year.
1:26.0	But I think they don't. I think this is the year that
1:28.6	Kansas City's rain falls off. And here's my reason why. I think the rest of the AFCS has gotten
1:33.8	better. You look at Kansas City, there's still a lot of continuity with them, but these younger
1:38.4	teams, they're getting a little bit sharper in the NFL draft. They're bringing in big name
1:42.5	free agents to try to stop Patrick
1:44.4	Mahomes and this offense. I think the Broncos chargers and maybe even the Raiders have a little
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