Some takes are meticulously crafted, with each ingredient perfectly balanced to create a rational, thought-out, deeply held belief. Others are slapped together, thrown in the oven for, you know, whatever length of time feels right, and dropped down on the table to consume at your own risk. These are the latter. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman offer up their half-baked takes for the 2025 season on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.

Rundown

7:00 Micah Parsons isn't getting traded and Jerry Jones isn't serious about winning football games (this is a fully baked take)

10:43 The Niners will win 12+ games

17:02 The Vikings will finish last in the NFC North

24:45 This is the year the Steelers crash out

35:42 The NFC will have massive playoff turnover this season

41:50 This is the season the Packers go nuclear

48:14 Abolish the draft so players like Myles Garrett don't get stuck on teams like the Browns forever

55:57 The NFL needs a leaguewide standardized bye week

1:05:40 Bo Nix was just kinda getting away with it last year, and that's not gonna happen this year

1:15:56 Zac Robinson is this year's Liam Coen

Host: Robert Mays

Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman

Executive Producer: Michael Beller

Producer: Michael Beller

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