2025 Season Prediction thread

[MasterStrategist]

Hope everyone enjoying college ball/Labor Day weekend!

 

With week 1 of the NFL season set to kick off in 4 days, Im putting out a "prediction" thread that I will revisit at end of year to post results on which posters deserve to be "Vegas insiders".

 

Categories:

1. Team predicitons: Division Winners/wild card teams, Conference championships, and Super Bowl

2. Bills off / def team rankings: from a scoring perspective, not yardage/etc

 

NFC:

East: Eagles 13-4

North: Packers 12-5

South: Bucs 10-7

West: 49ers 11-6

 

Wild Card: Commanders (11-6), Lions (12-5, lose tie breaker to Pack for division)

 

AFC: 

East: Bills 12-5

North: Ravens 13-4

South: Texans 11-6

West: Broncos 11-6

 

Wild card: Chiefs 11-6 (lose tie breaker to Broncos), Steelers 10-7

 

NFC playoffs: 49ers vs Packers in championship, 49ers win NFC

 

AFC playoffs: Bills vs Chiefs (this time in Buffalo), Bills win by a FG as Bass hits from 50 as time expires

 

Super Bowl: Bills vs 49ers (Berman special).  Bills 33 49ers 30

 

Bills team rankings (scoring):

Offense : 2nd

Defense: 7th

 

Have at it, something fun to kill some time before Week 1

 

 

[GunnerBill]

My division winners:

 

Bills

Ravens

Chiefs

Jaguars

 

Eagles

Packers

Rams

Falcons

 

Playoffs.... toss of a coin. I hope and believe the AFCCG can be in Buffalo.

[hondo in seattle]

The realist in me says the Bills go 12-5.

 

Then the optimist takes over and says we go on a run that leads to a Lombardi and the wildest victory parade the league has ever seen!

 

Edited September 1 by hondo in seattle

[boyst]

1 hour ago, hondo in seattle said:

The realist in me says the Bills go 12-5.

 

Then the.optimist takes over and says we go on a run that leads to a Lombardi and the wildest victory parade the league has ever seen!

24-0 or something. I don't math well and forget how it works with the extra single game. 

[HOUSE]

1 hour ago, hondo in seattle said:

The realist in me says the Bills go 12-5.

 

Then the.optimist takes over and says we go on a run that leads to a Lombardi and the wildest victory parade the league has ever seen!

13-4

[nosejob]

3 hours ago, MasterStrategist said:

Hope everyone enjoying college ball/Labor Day weekend!

 

With week 1 of the NFL season set to kick off in 4 days, Im putting out a "prediction" thread that I will revisit at end of year to post results on which posters deserve to be "Vegas insiders".

 

Categories:

1. Team predicitons: Division Winners/wild card teams, Conference championships, and Super Bowl

2. Bills off / def team rankings: from a scoring perspective, not yardage/etc

 

NFC:

East: Eagles 13-4

North: Packers 12-5

South: Bucs 10-7

West: 49ers 11-6

 

Wild Card: Commanders (11-6), Lions (12-5, lose tie breaker to Pack for division)

 

AFC: 

East: Bills 12-5

North: Ravens 13-4

South: Texans 11-6

West: Broncos 11-6

 

Wild card: Chiefs 11-6 (lose tie breaker to Broncos), Steelers 10-7

 

NFC playoffs: 49ers vs Packers in championship, 49ers win NFC

 

AFC playoffs: Bills vs Chiefs (this time in Buffalo), Bills win by a FG as Bass hits from 50 as time expires

 

Super Bowl: Bills vs 49ers (Berman special).  Bills 33 49ers 30

 

Bills team rankings (scoring):

Offense : 2nd

Defense: 7th

 

Have at it, something fun to kill some time before Week 1

 

 

Bills  1 seed 13-4  Ravens lose at least 3 division games....as well as week 1

 

[henry jones]

The Debby Downer in me sees this team going 9-8 or 10-7.  We have sh$t injury luck yet again and the “defense” gives up a league record 46.1 ppg.

[SoonerBillsFan]

46 minutes ago, HOUSE said:

13-4

Same 13-4

[Low Positive]

1 hour ago, henry jones said:

The Debby Downer in me sees this team going 9-8 or 10-7.  We have sh$t injury luck yet again and the “defense” gives up a league record 46.1 ppg.

That is 13 ppg worse that the worst defense (1981 Baltimore Colts) since the merger. 

[HappyDays]

AFC:

#1 Chiefs

#2 Ravens

#3 Bills

#4 Jaguars

#5 Broncos

#6 Steelers

#7 Chargers

 

NFC:

#1 Eagles

#2 Lions

#3 Bucs

#4 Rams

#5 Commanders

#6 Packers

#7 Vikings

 

AFCCG: Ravens defeat Chiefs

 

NFCCG: Eagles defeat Lions

 

SB: Ravens defeat Eagles

 

I think the Ravens kind of have it all this year so I'll bet on Lamar finally flipping the script on his playoff failures.

[frostbitmic]

Ravens 14-3

Bills 12-5

Chiefs 12-5

Texans 10-7

 

WC - Bengals, Broncos, patriots

 

Eagles 14-3

Bucs 12-5

49ers 11-6

Packers 11-6

 

WC - Commanders, Falcons, Bears

 

SB - Ravens > Eagles

[Walking Tall]

AFC:

 

1- Bills

2- Chiefs

3- Ravens

4- Jaguars

5- Broncos

6- Chargers

7- Bengals

 

AFC Championship: Bills over Chiefs

 

NFC:

 

1- Lions

2- Eagles

3- 49ers

4- Buccaneers

5- Packers

6- Rams

7- Vikings

 

NFC Championship: Eagles over Buccaneers

 

Super Bowl: Buffalo over Philadelphia

Edited September 1 by Walking Tall

[BarleyNY]

Bills 12-5, AFCE division winner. 

 

I see a lot of love for the Jags, but I don’t see it. The Texans are still more talented than them IMO. So I think the Texans, Chiefs and Ravens are the likely other AFC division winners. 

[Process]

Bills and Eagles #1 seeds

 

Bills > Chiefs AFCCG

 

Bills > Packers Superbowl 

[newcam2012]

21 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

My division winners:

 

Bills

Ravens

Chiefs

Jaguars

 

Eagles

Packers

Rams

Falcons

 

Playoffs.... toss of a coin. I hope and believe the AFCCG can be in Buffalo.

Jags? Wow that's a bold prediction. 

[GunnerBill]

2 minutes ago, newcam2012 said:

Jags? Wow that's a bold prediction. 

 

Yea I am a Liam Cohen believer and I think that Texans oline sucks. If Lawrence can just play okay with BTJ and Hunter they have a chance.

[newcam2012]

16 hours ago, HappyDays said:

AFC:

#1 Chiefs

#2 Ravens

#3 Bills

#4 Jaguars

#5 Broncos

#6 Steelers

#7 Chargers

 

NFC:

#1 Eagles

#2 Lions

#3 Bucs

#4 Rams

#5 Commanders

#6 Packers

#7 Vikings

 

AFCCG: Ravens defeat Chiefs

 

NFCCG: Eagles defeat Lions

 

SB: Ravens defeat Eagles

 

I think the Ravens kind of have it all this year so I'll bet on Lamar finally flipping the script on his playoff failures.

Not sure I'm totally on board because of their lack of playoff success. I do think they got better and their roster is the best in the NFL. I think they are the team to beat in the AFC followed by KC and then Buffalo. I think the weak AFC East division paved a nice seed for Buffalo. 

 

Two major questions are can either Buffalo or Baltimore get past the mighty Chiefs? 

2 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Yea I am a Liam Cohen believer and I think that Texans oline sucks. If Lawrence can just play okay with BTJ and Hunter they have a chance.

The weak division certainly gives them a fighters chance. 

[newcam2012]

18 hours ago, henry jones said:

The Debby Downer in me sees this team going 9-8 or 10-7.  We have sh$t injury luck yet again and the “defense” gives up a league record 46.1 ppg.

That would be worst case scenario. My biggest question and concern is the Bills defense. They will need to be able to create turnovers. A McD has consistently done this. At some point regression seems logical but I think the trend continues. Of course, a lot rides on the health of the players and the younger players development. Let's see how things play out.

[uticaclub]

4-4 vs this bucket

Ravens

Pats

Chiefs

Bucs

Steelers

Bengals

Pats

Eagles

 

7-2 vs this bucket

Jets

Dolphins

Saints

Falcons

Panthers

Dolphins

Texans

Browns

Jets

 

11-6 (5-1/4-2) division champion, 2 or 3 seed

[GunnerBill]

9 minutes ago, uticaclub said:

4-4 vs this bucket

Ravens

Pats

Chiefs

Bucs

Steelers

Bengals

Pats

Eagles

 

7-2 vs this bucket

Jets

Dolphins

Saints

Falcons

Panthers

Dolphins

Texans

Browns

Jets

 

11-6 (5-1/4-2) division champion, 2 or 3 seed

 

They will go better than 4-4 and better than 7-2 IMO.

 

13-4 and the 1 or 2 seed.