2025 NFL Predictions: NFC

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Last season, the Eagles started slow, and ended as the dominant class of the entire NFL.

Will that continue? Or, like 2023, will things start to crumble and fall apart in Philly?

Here are the 2025 NFC predictions.

1. Philadelphia Eagles

Yeah, I didn’t make you wait for it.

This is the class of the NFC for a reason.

The offense is excellent and full of weapons. The pass rush is immense. The secondary is excellent.

This team is fantastic.

2. Tampa Bay Buccaneers

There is not one single position group in which I’d say the Bucs are the best in the nation.

But, crucially, there’s not one single position group in which I’d say the Bucs aren’t “good.”

Baker Mayfield? That receiving group? Todd Bowle’s defense?

They’re all good, verging on really good!

No weak links should mean consistency this season, and that gets the Bucs the two spot.

3. Detroit Lions

Losing both coordinators stinks for the Lions, and it will be a question to see if they’re actually good fits or not.

But the overall roster is still great, and it’d be baffling if the Lions defense was as hurt as it was a one year ago.

Is it a step back from last year? Yeah, probably.

But it’s still a good team.

4. San Francisco 49ers

I didn’t like the Niners offseason.

I didn’t like their draft. Their receivers are insanely banged up. Their free agency class wasn’t anything special.

However, I do like bringing back Robert Saleh to help the defense improve, and, crucially, I don’t like what the other three teams in the NFC West have done.

I don’t trust Matt Stafford’s health, the Seahawks needlessly downgraded on offense, in my opinion, and I can’t trust the Cardinals and Kyler Murray.

And with a Kyle Shanahan offense and an easy schedule, I think the Niners can win the division off of the rest of the divisions incompetence alone.

5. Green Bay Packers

I think Jordan Love and Matthew Golden will be good to give the Packers a legitimate number one weapon this year.

But I don’t know that, and I don’t know if Jordan Love can escape his gunslinger tendencies.

But they still have Josh Jacobs, and now, crucially, Micah Parsons.

So I think everything will take some time to gel, but they’ll be hot come playoff time.

6. Washington Commanders

The Commanders are the darling pick in the NFC because of what they did last year, and that makes sense! They made the NFC Championship game in year 1 of Dan Quinn and a rookie QB with Jayden Daniels.

But sophomore slumps exist and the Commanders won lots of one score games.

I think they make the playoffs, but I don’t see them as title contenders this season.

Not just yet.

7. Minnesota Vikings

I feel as though people are getting a little bit weird with their Vikings opinions.

This team went 14-3 last year with Sam Darnold in his first year in the offense.

Darnold is now gone, and JJ McCarthy takes over after sitting last year (due to injury, though he would have sat regardless).

I have no idea if JJ McCarthy is going to be great or not.

But I know Kevin O’Connell is a great coach. I know Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison are great. I know Brian Flores is a great defensive coordinator.

Why does everyone think the Vikings will suddenly be terrible?

Sell your stock if you want to, but I’m holding on to mine.

Just Missing The Cut

Los Angeles Rams

I keep getting iffy feelings about this Stafford back injury thing.

I just can’t trust that he’s truly healthy.

Seattle Seahawks

Much like the Broncos, I think the Seahawks defense is going to be excellent.

But I just don’t love switching from Geno Smith to Sam Darnold, and while rookie guard Grey Zabel looked fantastic in preseason, the rest of the offensive line is still a huge question mark.

Atlanta Falcons

They’ll come within one game of making it and miss, because it’s the Falcons, and that’s just how this works.

NFC Champion

Late in the season, things are going to click.

They’re going to get red hot, face a weaker opponent in round one of the playoffs, and use that momentum to get to the title.

The Parsons trade did it for me. I just think the Packers are going to be playing their best football in December, which will lead right into January.

The Green Bay Packers win the NFC.

Super Bowl Prediction

Super Bowl 60 is a throwback to Super Bowl 1, with the Chiefs facing off against the Packers.

The Chiefs have lost two Super Bowls in this Mahomes era, and both of them came due to a dominant pass rush.

I told y’all.

That Parsons trade made all the difference.

But that’s only one guy, whereas the Bucs and Eagles were able to overwhelm Mahomes with the whole front.

Not this time.

The Kansas City Chiefs win Super Bowl 60.