2025 NFL playoff predictions, from wild-card round to the Super Bowl

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2025 NFL playoff predictions, from wild-card round to the Super Bowl

Henry Makina

American Football Association correspondent

the American Football Association The release of the table means just one thing: it’s time to start thinking about the final game.

I am just half a joke. Yes, we only The first look at the list of 2025 regular season. But I am thinking about where everything is performing – post -season and Super Bowl. It seems as if you were simulating the entire season on Madden to find out who wins everything. This is what I wanted to look at here.

How does the 2025 American Football Association season end?

I thought about the arrangement of the qualifiers. Each tour – including grades (because there is no very accurate details) – has been offered to Super Bowl.

Let’s do this.

The order arrangement

Asian Federation ranking

Of course, my country Dowry The choice is likely to add some brains. the Houston Texas It didn’t seem to be a strong team in the movie last year – but they entered the post -season due to weakness. Indie got the best this season. Houston was not. And if it is Daniel Jones Or improved Anthony Richardson In QB, the dowries must win more games-and they were already 8-9 last season.

Elsewhere in the AFC, Pittsburgh Stelors Either 1) You do not have a cortptic or 2) Aaron RodgersWhich may be worse than the lack of cortressing.

I strongly wanted to get Las Vegas Riders In the mixture, but I think BengalThe offensive talents will move them to that last place, because for one time, Cincinnati will win in its first two games from the season (@ Cle, against Jac).

Some people love Patriotism To make the qualifiers after their busy season. On the other hand, New England has a great deal of rotation Drake MayThe Gallery player, but not decreed. It resembles the national season like most of them Jaguar‘Offseasons: a new coach, a huge free agent category, a strong draft. For this reason, I am reluctant to predict a decisive term. Let’s see how the new New England pieces fit together first.

NFC ranking

This conference is more complicated.

where BakrzFor example? NFC will be brutal. It will be the most powerful section of the American Football Association, and I think this means that the four teams will eat each other. Only two teams will make the stage after this year. I love what Chicago Pirz I did their offensive line, but we saw the reconstruction of such stirring and/or stumbled. (look at me Planes Over the past few years.) I don’t like what Bakrz did in this season, and I am concerned about that Jordan loveThe contract contract – which is officially eating in the support team that Backers can carry – will affect the team’s performance. He is not consistent enough as a game manager to overcome this weak list.

Yes, I have Pad In fourth place after seizing the NFC South title. Fewers were noticing at the end of last year, but Price Young Put a round of eight games that changed my point of view completely-and coach Dave Kantalis. There can be a special thing to ferment in Carolina. It will not take much to win NFC south. It may simply take an alignment coach and QB. But moreover, the leopards will also get a large number of additions outside the season, from WR Tetairoa mcmillan To DT Tirchon and Erton To safety Tre’von Moehrig. Carolina returns to the fifth strength of the table, according to last year’s records. Things lined up.

Dallas. Where did the cowboy come from? They actually have the fifth strength of the schedule. But if you look at their depth scheme from top to bottom, they are absurd absurd. In 2024, they finished 7-10, though this Dac Brickot I played only eight games – and in the two teams in the NFC championship. Dallas seemed a fool in the main headlines this season, but this team is more dangerous than we think.

Wild Card Tour

Farewell: Crowsand Leaders

Asian Federation’s competitions:

Bills On Bengal, 29-28
Bronco On the leaders, 13-10
Ships On dowries, 21-7

NFC competitions

Rams more Cowboy24-17
Vikings more Black10-28
Eagles Above the Panthers, 31-17

There are two organizations – for me – it looks exhausted: Kansas City and Detroit.

The leaders put their hearts and spirit in three peats and brutally failed in the larger stage. Although I believe that there is a great brother’s complex where Andy Reed returns to both Sean Makdirmut and John Harbo, I do not think this is true for Laun Payton, who will collide with exhausting Prague, Patrick Maqoum and Travis Kelissy From outside the season.

For black, it appears to be in a declining direction. Their coordinators are 2024 are now major trainers (Bin Johnson, Aaron Glenn). It looks as if they will never fix their secondary problems. And now, without Johnson, I wonder whether the crime that operates is superior to some weakness, especially with the power outage at the periodic level to stop modern and high crimes.

Division round

Asian Federation’s competitions:

Westerners on charms, 31-17
Bills on Bronco, 17-14

NFC competitions:

Leaders on Vikings, 28-17
Rubs above eagles, 24-20

The reconciliation of the crows and the charger will be great. Another fugitive bowl will be. But more importantly (at least for me) is how this game affects the legacies Lamar Jackson and Justin Herbert They both face continuous criticism for their lack of success in the post -season. Herbert seems to have to bear more treatment that Lamar obtained. Jackson will continue to graduate from it.

JJ McCarthyIts season may seem like a poor copy of what Jayden Daniels I did last year. McCarthy will return from the ACL injury, which can slow the player in the first days. But Minnesota has the support team to raise the small QB. By the post -season, I think this crime will be twisting. But … not at the level of leaders, whose additions outside the season will help prevent a student in Daniels. NFC will re -star.

The tournament tour

AFC Championship: Bills over the crow, 42-35
NFC Championship: Rubbits on Leaders, 33-21

I have a crazy thought here. What if both Josh Allen Shawn McFai is underestimated?

Yes, I know that Alin just won MVP. But I am not sure that everyone has wrapped their heads about how much he did to carry bills motivated to six consecutive titles. And what he did, in particular, to lift the Boufalo crime last year. His inability to overcome Patrick Maqim in the qualifiers has climbed his legacy. But when you simply look at Allen at the game level to a game, you can easily say that it is the most midfielder in the game.

This is why he is heading to Super Bowl. The bills won the AFC championship in the return match for the season against the crows.

In NFC, it is a similar story with McVay, who carried his team through some coarse spots since then Matthew Stafford He won in Super Bowl. LA needs to be rebuilt – or at least renewal – its list. There was a lot of the stars who helped the rams win the last time. Harun Donaldand Cooper Copeand Galen Ramsay and Bobby Wagner They all went. This looks like the year when this construction project ends. And in the NFC, everything looks great on the La menu and can imagine McVay.

Super Ball

Bills on the rams, 27-26

There was a fourth play to the bottom that decided to lose bills in front of the tribal heads in the AFC Championship. Maybe you know one. The final offensive Buffalo engine was. It does not seem to not know the codified Blitz off the right side. The Wordmun hurriedly in the corridor and Allen was unable to complete the throwing to the narrow end Dalton Kinkaid. (Or, perhaps, Kincaid has dropped the pass.) It does not cost not to complete the game.

How bad is that play in Allen’s mind? How much will he motivate?

My feeling is that it is a reminder of the perfection of the perfection that he will have to reach not only to Super Bowl but through one – with victory. Since the preparation of Qurtbbeck should be so intense and anesthetic that it can see that Blitz is coming and performing the appropriate adjustment. In each play, including, especially in the third and fourth relegation in the fourth quarter.

Instead of increasing the McVay and Stafford legacy, this season will give the platform to turn itself. There is no denial that he will be considered one of the most talented Qurtubbere players in his generation. But this Super Bowl can open talks about its bone.

Before joining Fox Sports as a correspondent and column writer in the American Football Association, Henry Makina spent seven years coverage of Patriciots for the Sports Media Group in the United States of America today and the Boston Globe Group. Follow it on Twitter on HenrycmcKenna.

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