We've been progressing in the 2025 NFL season, in that sense, along the offseason. Buckle up and it's longer.
Thankfully, the NFL is doing their best to make sure there are a lot of things they can do when they reach the first week. Next week we'll bring you NFL combinations and all sorts of news and updates… Until then, we'll have to sort everything we've seen properly over the past few months.
This is where we come in. Here Skinny Post Michael Peterson and RJ Ochoa will help you keep up with the latest and great things in the NFL and understand what's most important.
Let's get started.
What did the Super Bowl change your mind?
RJ:
I began to notice the second half of the season as I wore it. This was clearly aligned when the Eagles found themselves, and Nick Cirianni became a bit mellower.
To make it clear here, he doesn't say much about confusion from provoking his own team's fanbase, but Philadelphia is a damn machine about Thanksgiving and obviously deserves credit for it. There are many people. I think we have to give a lot of people to head coaches.
The reality is that since taking over the Eagles in 2021… Cirianni has led them to the playoffs every year. They went to two different Super Bowls and dismantled the Chief team, which was generally expected to make history. He deserves his flower.
It's okay to be the one who gives him them, even if he can be a bit uncomfortable.
Michael:
Take this topic and turn it over a bit. Nothing came to mind from the Super Bowl results that changed my perspective, but what it did was to care for my rock, which is that the modern NFL is more than anything else to win at Trench. It was. How the Eagles dismantle the final chief from the first whistle and undress to make the biggest lasting impression from the final game of the season. Heck, that includes the running back position!
Some teams will be better teams from Zagging rather than following the crowd on the jig. The Eagles won Zaged in a league of full shots before charging for a passing attack in flight. They signed Saquon Berkley, continued to create offensive and defensive lines, and now have the Lombardi Trophy to showcase their efforts.
Which event at the NFL Combine would you like to attend the most?
Michael:
With the Super Bowl coming, the next big event on the NFL calendar is the Combine. For the week starting next Wednesday, the first position group will win the field for the Athletic Test.
So my question for you is, which drill or test would you most want to participate if you were given the chance? It may just be something that looks fun, or something you personally believe that you aren't that bad.
For me, I think it's a professional shuttle that's 10 yards, 10 yards, and then 10 yards. When I was still on the day of playing, I loved the feeling of explosion from the line. This drill was a great way to quantify how fast it can be stopped and changed in a very well transitioned direction to the product on the NFL field. When you were good at it, it felt really fun too.
Oh, I feel nostalgic right now.
RJ:
This answer is legal and realistic, and mine is not like that. This is Skinny Post method.
Honestly, I would like to join the Quarterbacks Road Rill. This is most similar as we (people who are not world class athletes) play football in our backyard and chase. I have to stand there and throw a pass to these world-class athletes who were running the route for me.
Plus, given how quarterbacks are opposed today, if you're extremely excited to throw at the combine, imagine the story I'll create. I stand out and boost my draft stock. Win, win.
Who should nail the offseason the most?
RJ:
Around the third quarter of the Super Bowl, when it was clear that Kansas City was over, I thought a lot about the Buffalo Bill and the Detroit Lions.
Buffalo had to think to himself that he would have given Philadelphia a better game. I'm sure Detroit must have thought to himself that he could have similar, perhaps not identical levels of success against the Chiefsteam, which we all thought were rigged throughout the season.
I think around this time, people look to the worst teams in the NFL and think they are under the most pressure to nail free agents and drafts. Certainly there is pressure on those who work on those teams, but I think the real pressure lies around a really close team.
Look at the Eagle two years ago, losing the Super Bowl. They are great examples of identifying what worked and what didn't, and fixing what you need to fix to get back to the ultimate game and win in two years. There are no awards for being nearby. Plus, there is no guarantee that you will be nearby.
The Bill, the Lions and while we're in it, the Baltimore Ravens, the San Francisco 49ers, the Cincinnati Bengals and the Green Bay Packers all need to close things down.
Michael:
I like the frame of your ideas here.
Instead of going with low, drooping fruit, I go with the Baltimore Ravens. It may be believed or not. After a season that was the league's number one offense behind another MVP caliber season by Lamar Jackson, they were short on the AFC Championship as Mark Andrews dropped in an attempt to convert two.
“But Michael, after all the successes they had in 2024, what do they need to “nail” this offseason? ”
Thank you for asking that question.
The Ravens were stellar in offense and were also top 10 defenses in terms of the points allowed, but their passing defense actually ended their 31st year in the NFL. When the opposing teams didn't run the ball against them, they couldn't pivot into the air too easily. In my opinion, this is the last thing the Ravens need to overcome that hump in Super Bowl competition.
Should Tush Push's legality be the hot topic of discussion this offseason at the league meeting next month?
Michael:
I think I'm just tired of that, right?
For me, the final straw was for the Eagles to troll the commander during the NFC Championship game, essentially using the threatening coefficients of the play. The Washington defender was doing everything he could to stop the play at the goal line, and Nick Silianni tried to use the long count to attract offsides. It's surprising twice because linebacker Frankie Lub was trying to get the snap-up wrong, and when he was flagged twice, authorities automatically score the Eagles based on some rules. He threatened to give it.
I think the pure mental chess game that Tush Push Presents was fully exhibited during that sequence looked like one of the most unhealthy situations I've ever seen in a football game. It was almost surreal to see the team doing everything on their own and being threatened by officials to stop an already unfair play. It's completely legal, but the Eagles and Cirianni certainly felt they should have flagged it something Through that sequence. Bad food? I argue they were guilty of delaying the game just like Washington.
I don't know. Am I an old man screaming at the clouds? Perhaps I can't help but feel like I don't want to see it again at a soccer game.
RJ:
About all of this, I mean as a society we have to decide what we're trying to do about everything this offseason.
This offseason we will either ban the push of tash or stand forever, but no matter what decision we make, we must agree and accept to move forward .
I fully understand the point of how the Eagles are pushing Inception at this point. I don't think they're being deceived for this or they're being fooled in any way. They live and operate within the rules. It's a completely fair game.
But I offer the league to be in a tough place. If they ban tash pushing, what's next? How long (maybe they should!) before Patrick Mahomes bans bait accused of doing it in relation to officials?
You need to be careful here.
