Team-by-Team: Evan Silva and Adam Levitan React to Everything They Saw In Week 1 (Episode 907)
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva break down every game from the opening weekend of the NFL season and provide their fantasy insight, analysis and takeaways for each team across the NFL.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The 49ers injury crisis and what we can take from Christian McCaffrey's Week One
- Travis Etienne has a hold on the Jags backfield, but for how long?
- The Miami Dolphins are the season's first dumpster fire
- Jacory "Bill" Croskey-Merritt leads the Commanders in rushing, but how sticky is it?
- Kansas City limp out of Brazil without a WR1, and a lack of clarity in their backfield
0:00 - Introduction
2:18 - San Francisco 49ers
8:52 - Jacksonville Jaguars
16:31 - Miami Dolphins
21:18 - Washington Commanders
24:48 - Kansas City Chiefs
29:47 - Arizona Cardinals
33:04 - Atlanta Falcons
36:52 - Carolina Panthers
39:33 - Chicago Bears
45:02 - Dallas Cowboys
49:30 - Detroit Lions
53:47 - Green Bay Packers
56:14 - Los Angeles Rams
58:42 - Minnesota Vikings
1:01:49 - New Orleans Saints
1:05:19 - New York Giants
1:08:21 - Philadelphia Eagles
1:13:20 - Seattle Seahawks
1:16:21 - Tampa Bay Buccaneers
1:20:09 - Baltimore Ravens
1:26:11 - Buffalo Bills
1:29:34 - Cincinnati Bengals
1:32:07 - Cleveland Browns
1:36:33 - Denver Broncos
1:40:31 - Houston Texans
1:43:07 - Indianapolis Colts
1:47:05 - Las Vegas Raiders
1:49:50 - Los Angeles Chargers
1:54:36 - New England Patriots
1:57:56 - New York Jets
2:01:40 - Pittsburgh Steelers
2:04:13 - Tennessee Titans
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 907 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:23.2 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:24.2 | I am one of the co-founders here at ETR. |
| 0:26.1 | As always joined by fellow co-founder Evan Silva. |
| 0:28.9 | And it is an exciting day. |
| 0:31.7 | The first team-by-team show of the 2025 NFL season is indeed upon us. Evan, how was your week one? |
| 0:42.2 | It was great. Started off with that stupid Thursday night opener Eagles, Cowboys, you know, |
| 0:47.1 | the best defensive player on the field gets kicked out of the game before the game even starts, |
| 0:51.8 | which changes the game plan. We'll talk about that when we get to Dallas, change the game plan for the Cowboys and |
| 0:57.6 | affects a bunch of other things. |
| 0:59.2 | But I thought it wound up being a really exciting week one, especially the Sunday |
| 1:04.8 | nighter, Bill's Ravens was like, you know, that's like an ESPN classic sort of game. |
| 1:13.3 | It was a really low scoring week one. |
| 1:16.3 | It was a slow-paced week one. |
| 1:19.5 | The wide receiver scores in fantasy were pathetic. |
| 1:23.6 | We did not have a ton of skill position player, |
| 1:26.1 | and we had a ton of injuries across the league. A lot of offensive line and defensive stuff, which I always try to focus on in my matchups come. Thankfully, we did not have a ton of skill position player injuries, but we did have enough key ones that, you know, we'll be hitting on all of them here. Oh, yes. There were some big ones. Worthy and Kittle will get to here at the top soon. |
| 1:46.7 | On today's show, we are going to go team by team through all 32 NFL franchises, |
| 1:52.7 | discussing what we saw in week one and what it means going forward. |
| 1:56.3 | We'll break down usage, how players performed in their roles, coaching decisions, injuries, and more. |
| 2:04.7 | Let's get right into it here. |
| 2:06.7 | We're going to start with the five biggest stories of the week. |
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