The Most Correct 2025 NFL Awards + Black Monday Coach Firings!

Fantasy Football with Josh & Hayden

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4.8 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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2025 NFL Awards Hayden breaks down his full slate of 2025 NFL Awards, including MVP, Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year awards, and more. The show wraps with Black Monday coaching discussion, firings around the league, top coaching candidates, and—of course—why the New York Giants are the best spot. Underdog Fantasy SIGN UP HERE: Play 5, get 75 → https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-underedog-football-show Must be 18+ (19+ in AL, NE; 19+ in CO for select games; 21+ in AZ & MA) and present in a state where Underdog Fantasy operates. Terms apply. Concerned with your play? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.ncpgambling.org. NY: Call 1-877-8-HOPENY or Text HOPENY (467369). Follow the Show Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/udfootballshow/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@underdogfootballshow Twitter/X: https://x.com/UDFootballShow Subscribe to the Podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-underdog-football-show/id1558961587 Join the Discord for giveaways and promoshttps://discord.gg/underdog Hayden’s Playoff Odds & Predictionshttps://underdognetwork.com/football/analysis/2025-26-nfl-playoffs-predictions-and-super-bowl-odds 0:00 2025 NFL Awards + Coach Firings0:45 Most Valuable Player5:40 Offensive Player of the Year8:34 Defensive Player of the Year10:31 Offensive Rookie of the Year15:41 Defensive Rookie of the Year23:28 Protector of the Year27:53 Comeback Player of the Year32:41 Coach of the Year37:40 Assistant Coach of the Year 41:42 Fired Coaches42:14 New York Giants43:22 Tennessee Titans44:19 Las Vegas Raiders45:11 Atlanta Falcons45:56 Arizona Cardinals47:01 Cleveland Browns49:51 Top Coach Candidates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's award season. And guess what? There's 50 official voters, and then there's me,
0:14.9	the unofficial 51st vote, the people's vote out there. And really, these awards are pretty much
0:20.8	about one thing.
0:22.3	It's for content purposes. They're doing this for the podcasters like us. They're doing it for the
0:25.9	live chat. So let me know what you guys think down in the comment section. Who do you guys
0:31.2	think should win these awards? I just looked at my votes versus the actual current betting markets
0:37.2	right now.
0:37.8	And I actually disagree with a lot of these.
0:39.2	So I'll make my case.
0:40.4	And then hopefully we can kind of take some of these down there.
0:43.5	So I wrote up all this over on underdog network.com.
0:47.2	And let's start this thing out with the 2025 NFL MVP.
0:53.3	I think it should be Drake May. It was a two-player race, but Drake May end up
0:57.3	being first in EPA per play. He was also first in completion percentage over expected. If you
1:03.6	kind of look at the chart, it really wasn't all that close. So he had like the best efficiency
1:08.4	of all the quarterbacks. And then he used to look at the environment around him.
1:12.3	His offensive line going into the season, consensus was a bottom five unit.
1:15.9	He also lost his left tackle, Will Campbell, for the last month of the season.
1:20.4	His wide receivers were all in a rotation.
1:22.3	They were dealing with injuries, Steph Diggs coming off a torn ACL.
1:26.3	So once you kind of factor in the environment around him, I think that Drake May was an
1:31.2	excellent MVP caliber quarterback this year.
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