Revisiting our coldest takes from the 2025 NFL season
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Picture this: you're in the warm air of the offseason, you're listening to players talk about how they're in the "best shape of their life," you're watching training camp highlights set to instrumental rock music. It's easy to get carried away with your NFL takes in that environment - and get carried away, we did. Robert Mays, Dave Helman, and Derrik Klassen revisit their coldest takes of the 2025 NFL season on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Senior Producer: Katy Duffy
Social Producer: Scott Krinch
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:01.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:03.2 | Today is not a fun day, but it's a day that it's probably necessary. |
| 0:09.1 | Me, Dave, and Derek are facing the music today. |
| 0:11.6 | We did this last offseason. |
| 0:13.0 | I really enjoyed it. |
| 0:14.0 | It's cold takes revisited. |
| 0:15.7 | We are going back over some of the most misguided, stupid, unacceptable takes that we had about the |
| 0:24.5 | 2025 season, either during the season or heading into it, and trying to figure out what we can |
| 0:29.8 | learn as we do a little bit of post-mortem on those. Some of the things we said about the Raiders, |
| 0:34.9 | some of the questions we had about the Seahawks offense, some of the optimism that some of us, me and Dave, had about the Tennessee Titans. We're going to try to figure out what lessons there might be in going back through those and figuring out why we felt that way and how we can be a little bit better in the future. So it's cold takes for visited on the athletic football show. Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:05.0 | It's become an offseason staple for us over the last couple years. Unfortunately, for the three of us today, it is time |
| 1:12.8 | to face the music, David. I don't like it. This is my first go around with this show, and I can't |
| 1:19.7 | say I like it. It's fun to, it's fun to sew. It's less fun to reap, you know? When you're doing |
| 1:26.7 | five shows a week and talking about, I mean, I don't know how many episodes |
| 1:30.1 | we did last year, but five shows a week times 26 weeks a year, we're talking to like hundreds |
| 1:36.5 | of hours of bullshit that we're spewing over the course of any given season, any given |
| 1:41.8 | calendar year. Derek, when you're doing it at that sort of clip, inevitably you're going to get to a point |
| 1:46.8 | where you say some shit that you regret. |
| 1:49.7 | I forget probably 70% of what I say over the course of a given off season and season. |
| 1:56.4 | Thankfully, both the people in the Discord who helped us out with this today and just the general populace of the internet, they're here to remind you about the things that you said. |
| 2:06.6 | They're always available to help you out with that. |
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