2025 NFL Playoff Outlook: Predicting NFC Wild Card Teams

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00:00last year despite 14 wins the Minnesota Vikings were that top wildcard team the five seed in the

00:06NFC the commanders were a wildcard team had to go on the road as an underdog to get to the NFC

00:11championship they did that for the first time since 1991 and the Green Bay Packers were our

00:17third and final wildcard team in 11 and 6 here but some questions perhaps about Jordan Love

00:23and his playoff performance especially in that opening game against Philadelphia with three

00:29I and T's if you had to choose one of those three NFC wildcard teams from a season ago to miss out

00:35on the postseason in 2025 who you taking it's the Vikings I mean look they won a ton of close games

00:42last year we know that regression is coming and they're also doing it within essentially a rookie

00:48quarterback a guy who was injured all last year in J.J. McCarthy and I know people think the world

00:52of Kevin O'Connell in the offense and I'm not saying that they're going to be bad obviously

00:55Justin Jefferson is there and they've put a whole bunch of good weapons on the offensive side of the

01:00ball but I just don't look at this team as a threat as much as they were last year plus I think the

01:05Packers are winning the division I think that they are primed for another bump up as Detroit plays one

01:11of the hardest schedules in the NFL coming up this season so it's going to be an incredibly tough NFC

01:17North to deal with but I think the Vikings will take a little bit of a step back as the Bears take a

01:21little bit of a step forward I gotta tell you like we just looked at the like the AFC it's like okay

01:26who can make the playoffs who can't was like one or two teams that didn't make it last year might be

01:30like hey you know what we think we can get in there you look at the NFC let's just say if we

01:33remove the Carolina Panthers New Orleans Saints and the Giants we're talking about the Bears 49ers

01:38Cowboys Cardinals Falcons Seahawks that didn't make the playoffs last year like I think they're teams

01:43that can take the next step up so do the same exercise we did with the AFC mark all those teams that

01:48didn't make the playoffs like who's on the verge of saying like you know what we can get in the

01:52playoffs but boy oh boy you got some talent here that you got to jump over just to get there in the

01:57NFC now the 49ers should be able to win their division if they stay healthy I mean that's really what

02:04this is all about they were bit by the injury bug massively last year if they could stay healthy

02:09they're clearly the best team in that division I know uh everybody looks at the Rams and what they

02:13were able to do and how they were able to accomplish it and you know they're not a bad football team

02:17I'm not saying they're going to be a bad football team but this is the Niners division to lose and

02:20has been for quite some time nobody is more talented than them nobody's better coach than they are

02:24uh and particularly on the defensive side of the ball they have the best defense in that division

02:29I'll give a nod to Seattle certainly you know coming on better on that side of the ball with uh

02:34uh why is the Ravens former defense coordinator Mike McDonald slipping who's the coach in Seattle now

02:40correct yes he's the coach in Seattle the Irish guys running around a league coach and I can't keep

02:44them all straight anyway O'Connell McDonald it's just it's it's you know for the Italian guy in the

02:48room it's too much you know Seattle will have it will have a better defense but this is the Niners

02:53division to lose where's Darren Rizzi when you need him huh minus 194 the price on the 49ers

03:00to reach the NFC postseason second best what was that Doug Marone please

03:05Dougie Syracuse football legend Doug Marone minus 194 the price on the Niners to reach the NFC postseason

03:13second best in the conference only behind the Philadelphia Eagles now the 49ers deserve some

03:20of that odds optimism if and it's a large if they remain healthy this year of course San Francisco

03:26entering last season and reached the NFC championship game four of the previous five years and loss of

03:31the Chiefs in the previous Super Bowl to end out 2023 it would seem though Zeno that the sexy team

03:39the hot team to pick this offseason with the optimism from that division and that conference

03:45is the LA Rams you don't seem to be all that swayed by what Sean McVay and Matthew Stafford might have

03:51this year in the City of Angels it's an old team at least a quarterback some of the other positions

03:57Devontae Adams I mean this is look I I get the names pop but you know Matthew Stafford's

04:04waiting retirement he certainly is very fragile at this stage of his career for the warrior that

04:10he's been throughout his entire career I I just there's a lot of things waiting to bite the Rams

04:16from behind again this is also a defense last year that had some question marks and I don't know that

04:23they're wholly trustworthy on both sides of the ball here but I just I don't know whether Matt Stafford

04:28plays all 17 games is a big question mark for me

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