Go BOLD - NFL bold predictions 2025 edition!!

[GunnerBill]

It's time to show your hand folks! As ever 4 from the Bills and 4 from the rest of the NFL. And try to make them at least somewhat BOLD.

Last year we had a ton of "X team will win the division" and unless you are predicting a multiple (i.e. forecasting multiple division winners) OR you are projecting like a worst to first scenario I'm not going to accept a division winner prediction as bold. 

 

As ever, I'll do a bit of a review on who did the best after the season. Here's mine:

 

Rest of NFL

- The Atlanta Falcons to lead the league in sacks;

- The Kansas City Chiefs to lead the league in offense and Patrick Mahomes to throw at least 40 touchdown passes; 

- The San Francisco 49ers to miss the playoffs again and at least one of Kyle Shanahan or John Lynch to be fired;

- The Indianapolis Colts to end up the #1 overall pick leading to an interesting draft declaration decision for a certain Mr Manning...... 👀

 

Bills

- Spencer Brown to be voted as at least a second team all-pro;

- Josh Allen to complete over 70% of his passes in the regular season for the first time in his career;

- Matt Milano to beat his previous career high of 3.5 sacks in a season;

- The Bills to earn the #1 seed and host the AFC Championship game at home.

 

 

Flame away and add your own!

 

[eball]

Rest of NFL

• Steelers miss playoffs and finish under .500
• Lions do NOT win the NFC North
• Raiders have a winning record
• Miami finishes 4th in AFC East

 

Bills

• Jimbo Cook has 2000 all-purpose yards
• Joey Bosa has 10+ sacks
• Bills finish with best regular season record in team history
• Tre White gets Pro Bowl invite

 

[Peace Frog]

Rest of NFL

• Chiefs do NOT win their division
• Kaiir Elam is a starter all season
• Aaron Rodgers gets the flu vaccine
• Jets go 0-17

Bills

• Bills win the Super Bowl
• Keon Coleman finishes with 1000+ yards
• T.J. Sanders knocks Pat Mahomes out for rest of season
• McDermott goes a whole game w/o clapping

 

[Gregg]

Rest of NFL

 

Broncos win their division

Commanders win their division

Jets get the last WC spot finish 2nd in AFCE

Steelers finish below .500 Tomlin gets fired.

 

Bills

 

Allen gets 2nd straight MVP award

Bills beat Jets 3 times this year with victory in divisional round

Bills defeat the Ravens in the AFCCG in OP

Bills win the Super Bowl. The celebrating in WNY is epic.

[Ethan in Cleveland]

Rest of NFL:

Chargers win AFC West

Browns start 0-12 finish 3-14

Rams miss playoffs and McVay retires

Chase leads NFL in receiving yards with 1850

Mike McDaniel is first coach fired

 

Bills:

Cook signs extension a few days before season opener 

Brown is voted second team All-pro RT

Shaq Thompson makes the 53 and plays some meaningful minutes during the year

Both PED cheats are cut and don't make the final 53 roster

 

[Bray Wyatt]

3 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

It's time to show your hand folks! As ever 4 from the Bills and 4 from the rest of the NFL. And try to make them at least somewhat BOLD.

Last year we had a ton of "X team will win the division" and unless you are predicting a multiple (i.e. forecasting multiple division winners) OR you are projecting like a worst to first scenario I'm not going to accept a division winner prediction as bold. 

 

As ever, I'll do a bit of a review on who did the best after the season. Here's mine:

 

Rest of NFL

- The Atlanta Falcons to lead the league in sacks;

- The Kansas City Chiefs to lead the league in offense and Patrick Mahomes to throw at least 40 touchdown passes; 

- The San Francisco 49ers to miss the playoffs again and at least one of Kyle Shanahan or John Lynch to be fired;

- The Indianapolis Colts to end up the #1 overall pick leading to an interesting draft declaration decision for a certain Mr Manning...... 👀

 

Bills

- Spencer Brown to be voted as at least a second team all-pro;

- Josh Allen to complete over 70% of his passes in the regular season for the first time in his career;

- Matt Milano to beat his previous career high of 3.5 sacks in a season;

- The Bills to earn the #1 seed and host the AFC Championship game at home.

 

 

Flame away and add your own!

 

 

Its like some people cant even read directions.....

[boyst]

Bills:

• Tre starts the season - gets injured at some point and Hairston plays ok but Tre returns by the playoffs
  • Tre has one of the best years of his career prior to injury
• Bills DL has an impressive combined sack total
  • Ed Oliver does not
• James Cook goes off and prices himself off of the Bills - 2k yards from scrimmage as said
• Bills #1 seed - Josh Allen back to back MVP

Non-Bills

• Chiefs offense is electric and scores 30+ every game; Kelce doesn't show up until playoffs
  • Defense is strong but can't match the octane of their offense
  • Chargers and Broncos just can't match them but both neck and neck to playoffs and knock Chiefs out of playoffs
• Ravens struggle against division foes, Steelers don't make the playoffs but beat them once
  • Bengals win AFC
• Bills win East - Dolphins fire McDaniel after we beat them 2nd time
  • Jets start strong and peter out
  • Patriots come out looking strong (Raiders, @Dolphins, Steelers, Panthers, @Bills, @Saints) starting 4-2, maybe 5-1!
    • then struggle: 0-3 (Browns, Falcons, @Bucs) before another high and low surge 4-3(Jets, @Bengals, Giants, Bills @Ravens, Jets, Dolphins) finishing 9-8
• Rams make a push and do enough to push into playoffs while the rest of their division struggles
  • MHJ suffers in Arizona, Seattle is a mess, SF is a dumpster fire
• NFC is dominated by the Eagles, Redskins slump and Cowboys make playoffs in a last/late season push, Giants we don't care about
  • Elam gets knob slobbered in Dallas
  • Eagles don't dominate playoffs as the wheels of the high octane power runs out and Sirianni goes back to being the typical mismanaging self
• NFC North has the Lions still making the playoffs, noodle arm Minnesota team struggles with a kid who had a terrible college career (if you can even call that school college), Chicago still trying to find its way and legs and Green Bay just being Green Bay.
• NFC South - skip

 

[Cash]

33 minutes ago, Bray Wyatt said:

 

Its like some people cant even read directions.....

 

I think at this point, anyone other than the Chiefs winning the AFC West should qualify as a bold prediction.  Likewise with anyone but the Bills winning the AFC East.  That's it, though.

[Bray Wyatt]

11 minutes ago, Cash said:

 

I think at this point, anyone other than the Chiefs winning the AFC West should qualify as a bold prediction.  Likewise with anyone but the Bills winning the AFC East.  That's it, though.

 

I agree with the AFCE part, but for the AFCW Broncos and Chargers both made the playoffs last year, hard to call it bold. I get that it would be new so a little surprising but I wouldnt go as far as bold thats just me though, not worth debating as I can see the merits of your side too. In short, agree with your overall premise. 🍻

[NewEra]

The chiefs are better than ever…. But the Bills are too and win the Super Bowl.  &nbsp
 

nothing else matters

[MiltonWaddams]

Rest of the league: 

Daboll and Schoen fired after a 2-10 start 

CJ Stroud sacked the most times in league history 

Travis Hunter finishes with under 500 receiving yards 

 

Bills

Groot finally gets double digit sacks 

No wr goes over 1000 yards, but Josh still throws for 4500 yards

Ray Davis leads team in TDs

[BuffaloBillyG]

Rest of league:

Daboll is first coach fired this season. He doesn't make it past week 6.

 

Baker Mayfield is firmly in the MVP conversation.

 

Denver will push KC for the AFCW. They will fall just short, however will beat the Chiefs in the Wild Card round.

 

Patriots beat out Steelers in final week for last AFC Wild Card spot. Tomlin and Steelers "mutually agree" to part ways. 

 

Bills Specific:

Joey Bosa stays healthy. Ends season with 12.5 sacks.

 

James Cook sees TD numbers cut in half AND misses 1,000 yards rushing. Still leads team in rushing yards.

 

Dalton Kincaid proves last year was down due to PCL tear. Ends up over 75 catches, over 700 yards. 

 

Josh Allen posts better numbers than last season but loses out on a second straight MVP award to Mahomes. Josh does however, win Super Bowl MVP 

Edited 14 hours ago by BuffaloBillyG

[uticaclub]

Not Bills

 

Daniel Jones has a decent year in Indy and ruins their chance of drafting Arch Manning

 

Denver or LA win the AFC West. KC is a wild card

 

Aaron Rodgers is in the MVP race until the wheels fall off in late December.

 

Bills

 

Win the division but lose to KC at home in the wild card with no major off-season changes.

 

 

[Gregg]

3 minutes ago, uticaclub said:

Not Bills

 

Daniel Jones has a decent year in Indy and ruins their chance of drafting Arch Manning

 

Denver or LA win the AFC West. KC is a wild card

 

Aaron Rodgers is in the MVP race until the wheels fall off in late December.

 

Bills

 

Win the division but lose to KC at home in the wild card with no major off-season changes.

 

 

 

If the Bills were to lose at home in the WC round, I think that would put McDermott on the hot seat and possibly even fired. That would be a very disappointing ending to the Bills season if it happened.

[boyst]

wildcard

Broncos over Texans

Ravens over Chargers

Chiefs over Bengals

Eagles over Bucs

Packers over Falcons

Lions over Commanders

 

Division

Chiefs over Ravens

Bills over Broncos

Lions over Eagles

Rams over Packers

 

Conf

Bills over Chiefs

Rams over Lions

 

https://v2.playoffpredictors.com/football/nfl/6F0486D5-2E84-4043-BCC1-D1F3BA9195A3/official?L=Aw18ZXTt-DFOS1b0cyoA

full season plus playoff simulator - did not track teams records, road or home streaks, previous or future matchups - i went just went off of game by game guessing.

[Walking Tall]

Rest of NFL:

Jayden Daniels suffers a sophomore slump and Commanders miss the playoffs.

The Browns start 4 different QB’s on their way to next years #1 overall pick.

The Jaguars surprise everyone and win the AFC South. 

Brian Daboll is the first HC fired in 2025.

 

Bills:

Ed Oliver puts up double digits sacks on his way to an All-Pro season.

T-Bass is perfect on the season from inside of 50 yards.

The Bills defense returns to a top 5 overall unit.

Josh Allen has over 40 TD passes.

The Bills beat the Chiefs, Bengals and Rams to win their first ever Lombardi trophy.

 

Edited 14 hours ago by Walking Tall

[uticaclub]

15 minutes ago, Gregg said:

 

If the Bills were to lose at home in the WC round, I think that would put McDermott on the hot seat and possibly even fired. That would be a very disappointing ending to the Bills season if it happened.

Correct, that’s why it is a BOLD prediction 

[Chandler#81]

Bills and their mafia party in the streets in February as Allen raises the Lombardi to the crowd gathered at City Hall!

🙏 

🤞

[4merper4mer]

5 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

It's time to show your hand folks! As ever 4 from the Bills and 4 from the rest of the NFL. And try to make them at least somewhat BOLD.

Last year we had a ton of "X team will win the division" and unless you are predicting a multiple (i.e. forecasting multiple division winners) OR you are projecting like a worst to first scenario I'm not going to accept a division winner prediction as bold. 

 

As ever, I'll do a bit of a review on who did the best after the season. Here's mine:

 

Rest of NFL

- The Atlanta Falcons to lead the league in sacks;

- The Kansas City Chiefs to lead the league in offense and Patrick Mahomes to throw at least 40 touchdown passes; 

- The San Francisco 49ers to miss the playoffs again and at least one of Kyle Shanahan or John Lynch to be fired;

- The Indianapolis Colts to end up the #1 overall pick leading to an interesting draft declaration decision for a certain Mr Manning...... 👀

 

Bills

- Spencer Brown to be voted as at least a second team all-pro;

- Josh Allen to complete over 70% of his passes in the regular season for the first time in his career;

- Matt Milano to beat his previous career high of 3.5 sacks in a season;

- The Bills to earn the #1 seed and host the AFC Championship game at home.

 

 

Flame away and add your own!

 

Bills:

Tre White has two game winning/game sealing plays, one of which happens in post season

Knox makes the Pro Bowl

Dion wins NFL Man of the Year

Ed Oliver throws a touchdown pass

 

 

Rest of NFL:

Trouble unexpectedly brews in Eagleville and Siriani barely survives tension with multiple players

George Pickens does something that makes Ron Artest look like Ghandi

Every team in the AFC South goes 0-11-6; the division winner via tiebreaker wins their first playoff game by beating the Chiefs

Taylor Swift dumps Kelce for Diggs

 

 

Non -NFL:

In a surprise move, the Cleveland Guardians change their name to Cleveland Redskins and the Washington Commanders become the Washington Indians

TBD bans and/or tariffs the use of snooty British phrases like “as ever”.  

 

[ganesh]

4 hours ago, Peace Frog said:

Rest of NFL

• Chiefs do NOT win their division
• Kaiir Elam is a starter all season
• Aaron Rodgers gets the flu vaccine
• Jets go 0-17

Bills

• Bills win the Super Bowl
• Keon Coleman finishes with 1000+ yards
• T.J. Sanders knocks Pat Mahomes out for rest of season
• McDermott goes a whole game w/o clapping

 

The odds on the last point has to be 100000:1