Revisiting our coldest takes From the 2025 NFL season
5/7/20261 hr 9 min
icture this: you're in the warm air of the offseason, you're listening to players talk about how they're in the "best shape of their life," you're watching training camp highlights set to instrumental rock music. It's easy to get carried away with your NFL takes in that environment - and get carried away, we did. Robert Mays, Dave Helman, and Derrik Klassen revisit their coldest takes of the 2025 NFL season on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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First 90 secondsRobert Mays· Host0:00
Welcome to The Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Today is not a fun day, but it's a day that it's probably necessary. Me, Dave, and Derek are facing the music today. We did this last off-season. I really enjoyed it. It's Cold Takes Revisited. We are going back over some of the most misguided, stupid, uh, unacceptable takes that we had about the 2025 season, either during the season or heading into it, and try to figure out what we can learn as we do a little bit of postmortem on those. Some of the things we said about the Raiders, some of the questions we had about the Seahawks offense, some of the optimism that some of us, me and Dave, had about the Tennessee Titans. We're gonna try to figure out what lessons there might be in going back through those and figuring out why we felt that way and how we can be a little bit better in the future. So, it's Cold Takes Revisited on The Athletic Football Show. Let's get to it right now. [upbeat music] It's become an off-season staple for us over the last couple years. Unfortunately, for the three of us today, it is time to face the music, David.
Dave Helman· Host1:13
I don't like it. [laughs] This is, this is my first go around with this show, and I, I can't say I like it. [laughs] This is-- It's fun to, it's fun to sow, it's less fun to reap, you know?
Robert Mays· Host1:25
When you're doing five shows a week and talking about, I mean, I don't know how many episodes