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2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 1
Welcome to the 2025 NFL Season Weekly Discussion Thread! 🏈
Share your thoughts on Week 1 — wins, losses, fantasy fumbles, predictions, or anything else football-related.
I’ll post these each Tuesday after the games wrap up to keep discussion going. Feel free to start your own threads if something deserves more focus!
| Score |
|---|
| Eagles 24 – Cowboys 20 |
| Chargers 27 – Chiefs 21 |
| Colts 33 – Dolphins 8 |
| Steelers 34 – Jets 32 |
| Buccaneers 23 – Falcons 20 |
| Bengals 17 – Browns 16 |
| Raiders 20 – Patriots 13 |
| Saints 20 – Cardinals 13 |
| Commanders 21 – Giants 6 |
| Jaguars 26 – Panthers 10 |
| Broncos 20 – Titans 12 |
| 49ers 17 – Seahawks 13 |
| Packers 27 – Lions 13 |
| Rams 14 – Texans 9 |
| Bills 41 – Ravens 40 |
| Vikings 27 – Bears 24 |
GO PACK GO!!
I couldn’t be more excited about this packers team. The parsons trade put them over the top and the defense looked the best I’ve ever seen
Not sure of your politics. But this is a funny article nonetheless.
If You’re a Socialist, Root for the Green Bay Packers
I really didn't expect us to dismantle the Lions like that. Even with the Parsons trade they were still my pick to win the division... Maybe they still will, but losing both coordinators must have really hurt them because it was never even close.
That Bills Ravens game was insane
We aren't getting a game that good again until playoffs happen. Even then, there's a good chance that we saw the game of the year in week one.
This loss is going to haunt the Ravens when it comes to seeding at the end of the year. I can't wait to see how this pans out
I'm a Chiefs fan. My wife's family are all Chiefs people, and due to my location it seemed like a good team to be a fan of when I started paying attention to the NFL a few years ago. Some may call me a bandwagon fan which is okay because I know I'm not, it's more of a timing issue.
I say all that because I'd like for you to have the context before I say: I love my team, but I would be absolutely thrilled to see either of those two teams make it to the Super Bowl this year. Both of those teams absolutely deserve an appearance at least, but I'd love to see them win it all too.
Being a Cleveland Browns fan is like watching The Titanic and rooting for the ship not to sink. Truly believing in your heart that the ship will not sink.
And inevitably, when the ship does go down, that moment, that feeling, is what being a Browns fan is all about.
I didn’t watch the Eggs and Cowboys play, but I saw the highlights and was real dissatisfied with how our fans seem to just excuse our player’s actions as “that’s just Philly.” I grew up outside of that city and I moved to PDX right after college, tried to live in Philly and failed twice since to be closer to family. Carter’s disrespect, however misguided, is just unacceptable and telling of the Philly I know.
All NE sports fans can attest that you’re born where you’re born and you’re stuck w those teams like it or not. I guess I just keep getting my hopes up that the teams that represent my family heritage will show class, but nah.
At least the Phillies are fun to watch.
It's kind of funny to me (not Carter's action, but Philly sports as a generalization) that my Philly friends that aren't sports people are some of the best people I know, regardless of the setting they inhabit. My friends that are sports fans are still good people; but as soon as you ask them anything about sports you will hear all sorts of justifications about why it's okay to act like fools at an event. Not that I'm perfect, I'm all about some good trash talk. I draw the line at interacting with other people physically though.
I usually watch redzone, but I didn't feel as entertained by it last Sunday. I don't think it's the ads, more that you don't really get the context or narrative behind anything. I might switch to actually just watching a game instead.
I'm a little sad that I missed the end of a really good game between the ravens and bills. I turned the game off and went out to dinner after it looked like the ravens were winning. Apparently it was a really exciting 4th quarter.
RedZone can be tough before the bye weeks since there is just so much going on. Though I still prefer Hansen flipping back and forth on a small delay than Siciliano using every excuse to throw the octobox up and try to call every game at the same time.
There's been a ton of RedZone discourse on the formerly-bird-themed social media this week, and apparently everyone in the world except me watches NFL sundays with two or more TVs, RedZone playing on one of them. To me that just sounds so overstimulating and unenjoyable. I just have a main game on my single TV, and change channels to a second game during commercials.
This was the first year in...31 years I didn't watch the Steelers on opening day. I was disgusted when they signed Rodgers and decided I'm just done with them.
Your resident Panthers fan here... I'm not sure what to expect from this team going forward. The first game of the season in most eyes appeared to be a disaster, but I think it was just bipolar as hell with things showing bad more often than not.
On offense, Tmac is going to be great. Bryce was flip flopping from "Hell yeah" to "wtf" all game where he would shine greatly and then just have the switch turn off and make a boneheaded decision that was, imo, uncharacteristic of his play at the end of last year. I think they can put it together, I'm just thinking this is related to the projected offense changing drastically over the week leading up to this game. Thielen gets traded (for a respectable deal) and Coker gets hurt meaning we had to go pull Renfrow back onto the team after cutting him, making the WR corps look completely different from the training camp projections. Then our LT gets appendicitis a week ago and the new center kept snapping the ball too high, throwing every plays timing off greatly. I think this is all fixable though, and I still like our chances of beating last year's win total.
...but they are going to have to carry the team hard because the defense WAS a disaster. Our linebackers are non existent meaning that even the great Derrick Brown being back cant plug the hole for the run game. The edge rushing rookies need to figure things out fast, because its going to be stressful watching this team on defense all year. I think its a safe prediction that our DC does not survive the season if this continues.
Bills.
Ya know I usually upvote something to mark it as read here on tildes, but I just can't support this ;)
I've been a Dolphins fan my entire life, but I think this is the week that made me just give up. Every year it's the same thing...disappointment, glimmers of hope, more disappointment. It's really not worth my time/energy anymore. I made it to Tua's first interception before I switched to my NFC team, the Commanders, and decided to focus my time/energy this year on a team that's actually decent and on the rise.
And nobody can say I'm a fair weather fan because there is no fair weather. Just a constant drizzle of mediocrity at best.
The problem I'm facing is that it's cold in the mornings this week, therefore early hoodie season. Every single hoodie I own is Miami Dolphins and it's embarrassing.
I think giving up on the dolphins after just one bad game is an overreaction. Bad games happen. At least you didnt give up 70 points like when you destroyed the Broncos 2 years ago. Last season was barely a losing season at 8-9 after four straight winning seasons. Tua has seemed pretty good when he wasn't injured for the past few years. If he can avoid another concussion, you have a relatively easy schedule based on Vegas odds, so you should still have a decent shot at making the playoffs. Week 1 can be a little crazy. I'd say wait a few games before writing them off.
I'm just a Raider's fan, though. I'm used to losing.
I certainly remember last year when every team played 2 safeties deep to prevent the explosive plays like what happened with Hill and AJ Brown to start the 2023 season, and the only team that looked to have a competent offensive for the first month-ish was the Saints, since they were the only ones to utilize shotgun formation to counter the defensive scheming. Things will even out
Well it's more like after years of disappointment they were on increasingly thin ice as the Commanders started showing more promise.
So when Tua threw an interception that early in the very first game I was just kind of done with it. Maybe the Dolphins will have a good season, and if so I'll cheer them on in the playoffs. But as far as my week-to-week attention goes, they've lost it.
New year, new coordinators, new personnel ... same old mediocre Seahawks. Boring, inept offense paired with a defense that refuses to get off the field leading to a lopsided time of possession and a predictable outcome. Things were supposed to be different this year!
I was really nervous about my Broncos because the preseason hype got completely out of control and this had all the signs of a week one stinker. The offense looked horrible and way out of synch, but the defense was fantastic, even if it was against a rookie QB. It reminded me of some of the games from 2015 where the offense did everything it could to lose the game, but the defense held on.
I'm starting to develop a real disdain for Will Lutz though. I don't know if Payton is in love with him, or if he has some compromising images of Payton, but it feels crazy to have a guy in Denver who can't reliably kick from 55+. I've been an active Broncos fan for about 30 years and in that time we've had basically four kickers - Elam, a former record holder for longest FG; Prater, another former record holder for longest FG; McManus, who was a little less accurate but could realistically hit from 65; and now Lutz.
It was jarring to go from McManus, who kicked 37 attempts from 50+ in his last three years in Denver, to Lutz, who kicked 5 in '23 (tied for 23rd in the league) and 7 last year (t-19th). Lutz's long was 55 last year (ranked 25th in the league) and 52 the year before (31st). I don't have a list of every attempt available, but I'd wager that 90% of his 50+ attempts are from 53 and in. And he plays half his games in Denver! I've lost count of the number of times we've passed on a long FGA that 75% of guys in the league can hit. As for Prater, he left in 2013, before teams regularly kicked from beyond 55 yards, but he still took 7 from 50+ and that was with one of the best offenses of all time. In his last three years in AZ, he kicked 28 times from beyond 50, and his longs for each year were 62, 57, and 62. I don't know what the rub n tug scene is like in Denver, but maybe it's time to call in Justin Tucker. We already have an evil ownership group and a HC that paid out bounties for injuries, might as well throw a sex pest into the mix.
As for the rest of the league, I think the Chargers might be the number 3 team in the AFC, with plenty of room to improve. I was big on them last year and got burned, but I'm thinking I might've been a year early. I could see a Harbaugh vs Harbaugh AFCCG. That, or they're just the Chargers and are forever doomed to under deliver. Time will tell.