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The Good, Bad and Ugly From the 2025 NFL Offseason

1 week ago | si.com | Matt Verderame

With every NFL mandatory minicamp behind us, training camp looms. And with training camp comes the end of the offseason, and the full-blown start of when all 32 teams begin pursuing their dreams of winning Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, Calif. come February. But before we launch ourselves into the predictions and prognostications of the 2025 season, and the action on the fields across the country approximately a month from now, let’s look back.
32 Teams in 32 Days: Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams Need to Win Big in 2025

1 week ago | si.com | Matt Verderame

It’s time for the Chicago Bears to join the big boys. Last year, the Bears started 4–2 and had a fifth victory in their grasp against the Washington Commanders. Then, disaster. A completed Hail Mary pass started what turned into an avalanche of defeats, leaving Chicago 5–12 on the season with a 10-game losing streak sandwiched into the mix.
32 Teams in 32 Days: Cardinals Have Reason to Believe They’re Playoff Bound

1 week ago | inkl.com | Matt Verderame

Kyler Murray and Jonathan Gannon enter their third season together, and it's playoffs or bust in Arizona. | Rob Schumacher/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORKThe Cardinals continued to lay a foundation under second-year coach Jonathan Gannon, going 8–9 while being competitive throughout the 2024 NFL season. Their strength was offense, with Kyler Murray, James Conner, Trey McBride and Marvin Harrison Jr. all providing threats to a defense.
32 Teams in 32 Days: Cardinals Have Reason to Believe They’re Playoff Bound

1 week ago | si.com | Matt Verderame

The Cardinals continued to lay a foundation under second-year coach Jonathan Gannon, going 8–9 while being competitive throughout the 2024 NFL season. Their strength was offense, with Kyler Murray, James Conner, Trey McBride and Marvin Harrison Jr. all providing threats to a defense.
32 Teams in 32 Days: Cowboys Expect to Rebound While Starting New Era

2 weeks ago | si.com | Matt Verderame

Welcome to 32 teams in 32 days. To get us through the offseason, we’ll be taking a closer look at every team in the NFL, in order of projected 2025 win totals. Up next: the Cowboys. It’s a new day for the Dallas Cowboys, and time is running short on the current era. Owner and general manager Jerry Jones remains as involved as ever, but the 82-year-old wants results now.
32 Teams in 32 Days: Falcons Counting on Michael Penix Jr. to End Playoff Drought

2 weeks ago | inkl.com | Matt Verderame

The Falcons will need a big season from Michael Penix Jr. to end the Buccaneers' four-year reign in the NFC South. | Brett Davis-Imagn ImagesBest and Worst Case Scenarios for the Atlanta FalconsVery few teams have perfected mediocrity like the Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons have missed the postseason in each of the past seven seasons, winning exactly seven or eight games six times.
32 Teams in 32 Days: Falcons Counting on Michael Penix Jr. to End Playoff Drought

2 weeks ago | si.com | Matt Verderame

Very few teams have perfected mediocrity like the Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons have missed the postseason in each of the past seven seasons, winning exactly seven or eight games six times. Atlanta has tried almost everything to remedy the situation, whether paying up in free agency, making big moves in the draft, going young, going old, etc. Nothing has worked.
The Brewers’ Blueprint for Small-Market Success Lies in Latin America

2 weeks ago | si.com | Matt Verderame

Baseball has been offering a vexing question to small-market clubs for decades. In a sport with the wealth gap widening by the year due to local TV deals among other franchise-specific financial streams, how do teams on a tight budget consistently compete? This is something the Milwaukee Brewers attempt to answer every year. It turns out the best answer might prove to be almost 2,000 miles away in the Dominican Republic.
32 Teams in 32 Days: Dave Canales, Bryce Young Have Panthers Pointed Upward

2 weeks ago | pix11.com | Matt Verderame

The Carolina Panthers have failed to achieve a winning season in each of the past seven years, rolling through a whopping seven coaches and 10 starting quarterbacks over that span. While 2025 doesn’t offer championship aspirations, it does provide real hope. Although the Panthers finished third in the NFC South with a 5–12 record, first-year coach Dave Canales had Carolina pointed in the right direction by season’s end, going 4–5 in its last nine games.
Ranking Each NFL Team’s Top Offensive Triplets for 2025

3 weeks ago | si.com | Matt Verderame

The term “triplets” entered the NFL lexicon in the 1990s when the Dallas Cowboys were in the midst of an America’s Team dynasty. From 1992 to ’95, the Cowboys won three Super Bowls in four years, powered by a trio of top-tier talents: quarterback Troy Aikman, running back Emmitt Smith and receiver Michael Irvin, all of whom are now immortalized in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Going into 2025, each team would love to have their own version of those superstars, and some are closer than others.