Top 10 NFL defenses heading into 2025 + Nate's top summer storylines | Football 301

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Nate Tice & Charles McDonald rank their top 10 defenses in the league heading into the 2025 season.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Football 301, I'm back from paternity leave.
0:03.5	Yes, we are going to do top 10 defenses for 2025.
0:08.5	Charles McDonald joins me.
0:10.8	We rank them.
0:11.8	Give those top 10 defenses, which ones come out on top?
0:14.5	Actually, we have a little consensus there at the top, but the back end gets very, very fun.
0:18.7	Don't make me repeat that line again.
0:20.4	We also look at a little bit of, you know, training camp news.
0:24.1	Just some interesting tidbits.
0:25.3	Josh Simmons starting at left tackle.
0:26.7	A couple other things.
0:27.4	Marvin Harrison, Jr.
0:28.2	bulking up.
0:29.3	Really fun to be back with Charles.
0:31.0	See you guys in a sec.
0:54.3	Hello and welcome back to Football 301. I'm your host, Nate Tice. Good to be back. I am back. We're back. I guess that's the best way. But football is back. Training camp has started. I'm back from paternity leave. Very excited. I might have cheated the end date. You know, it came back a little early because I couldn't wait to do these pods. And I think I'm frothing at the mouth a little bit. Do not tell my
0:58.3	wife. But no, I am, we are back. Very excited. We have the top 10 defenses for the 2025 NFL
1:06.6	season today. Me and my co-host, who is going to help me do that today, very good to see them. Top 10 defenses. Charles McDonald, how are you doing today, Mr. Forberts? I'm fine. How are you? I'm good. My house is quiet, you know? Mine is right now. Mine is right now. Naps are going on right now. I'm trying to time this up perfectly. No, but it's doing great. Yeah, secret sketches to the babies, you know? You guys are going to be so aware. You guys are going to be, don't you guys have to, don't you have to feed her right now? We're 40 minutes into this shell. No, everything's going great. I know when I wake up and if I'm up before like 8 o'clock and I'm in the, I've been in our little chat, then you're in there. I'm like, oh no. Oh, no. Early morning. And it was early on the day. Yeah. I know. When I'm sending in some tweet I saw at 545 a.m. It's just like, I know. I know. When I'm sending in some tweet I saw at 545 a.m.
2:02.2	It's just like, I know.
2:04.3	I know.
2:04.8	You know, we have a group chat with people all over the country.
2:07.1	And we always laugh when the East Coast guys are up at 10.30 p.m. Pacific time.
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