5 NFL Takes I'm SCARED I'm Wrong About | The Jets & Chiefs Will Prove Me Right... Or Very Wrong - video Dailymotion

Peter Klein

I'm going against the core rule of sports talk: I'm admitting I might be wrong. These are the **5 NFL predictions for the 2025 season that I'm genuinely worried about**—and the data behind why they could blow up in my face.  In this video, I break down the biggest gambles in my season preview: 🤔 **#5: The Cincinnati Bengals' Offensive Collapse**: Why Joe Burrow's historic 2024 might be impossible to repeat (and why that O-line is a disaster waiting to happen). 🦁 **#4: The Detroit Lions' Fall From Grace**: How the loss of Frank Ragnow and key coaching brain drain could derail their Super Bowl aspirations. 🛡️ **#3: The Minnesota Vikings' QB Gamble**: Why JJ McCarthy's rookie struggles could sink a roster I believe is otherwise elite. 💥 **#2: The Kansas City Chiefs' Offensive Breakout**: I'm all-in on the Rashee Rice & Xavier Worthy hype train... but what if Mahomes' offense stays "mid"? ✈️ **#1: The New York Jets' Redemption Arc**: Why I'm betting on Justin Fields and a culture shift—and why the preseason reports have me nervous.  **I need to know your thoughts!** Drop your biggest "I'm worried I'm wrong" take in the comments below. I'll reply and we can debate the stats.  🔔 **Subscribe for more honest NFL analysis** (no hot takes allowed): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK4MO2vLadfMn1nkirzyFixd_LYuOm6ZI  🎧 Listen on: Apple https://apple.co/49NGm2L | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM?si=icY7NEBvT7yZadv_JFlT6Q  💬 Follow for live breakdowns: X.com/primetimepk | Twitch.tv/primetimepk  | Kick.com/primetimepk  🔗 Support the Show:   - Tip Jar: https://streamelements.com/couchpotatodiary/tip (fuels more content!)   - Partners: C of Dead http://cofdead403.ca/ | Swift Energy https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm PROMO CODE: PKPrimetime for 25% Off!

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00:00These are the five things that I'm worried I'm wrong about going into this NFL season.

00:12One of the first things I was taught in sports radio many, many, many years ago

00:18is don't ever say, oh, I don't know.

00:22And so that mentality certainly has found its way through into sports talk very aggressively

00:29over the last five, ten years.

00:32And so sometimes we just want to come out and make a definitive statement.

00:36This is how this situation is going to go.

00:40And I know, like, I can come on here, I can talk very, very quickly,

00:43and I can make it really seem, I can throw out a couple of numbers

00:45that a lot of people will recognize, some people won't,

00:47but I'll say it very quickly and very impactfully.

00:49And it's coming from a large person on here,

00:52so it must be having some impact behind it.

00:56But there's still some things I'm worried I'm wrong about.

00:58So today, we're going to go through the top five things I'm worried I'm wrong about

01:04going into this NFL season.

01:06Honorable mention to the Green Bay Packers having a breakout season this year.

01:10I think that with Jordan Love having a full season of health

01:14and still having a very talented wide receiver room

01:18and a very good running back to work with,

01:20I feel like there is a big breakout coming.

01:22But if the defensive improvements that I thought I saw from a season ago

01:26aren't necessarily there, or if there's an injury problem for Jordan Love

01:30or some of the talent, because there have been some losses there as well,

01:33injury-wise, at receiver in Green Bay,

01:35if Golden doesn't help replace a few of those things,

01:38then maybe that breakout isn't coming.

01:40So honorable mention to Green Bay there.

01:42But my number five thing I'm worried I'm wrong about

01:44is the Bengals can't repeat last year's wild offensive production.

01:49Last year, the Cincinnati Bengals for fantasy football

01:53were an absolute goldmine on both sides.

01:57Because offensively, it was one of the great offensive teams we've ever seen.

02:01Joe Burrow putting up video game numbers.

02:03Jamar Chase, Tee Higgins, Brown, all of them.

02:07Chase Brown, sorry.

02:07All of them just complete dominance in the fantasy football landscape.

02:12And they had a defense that allowed everybody to eat against them.

02:16They were glorious.

02:18I have multiple concerns when it comes to this.

02:23A, that feels just like a difficult way to live in the National Football League.

02:28And so they made some moves to try to help this defense out.

02:32But obviously, the situation with Hendrickson, not ideal.

02:34Even the weird holdout thing with Shamar Stewart,

02:37the kid they drafted in the first round, seems a little weird.

02:40And because they were so focused on that,

02:42they weren't focusing on the fact that their meal ticket,

02:45their number one quarterback, is running for his life more often than he's not

02:49behind a very bad offensive line.

02:51I don't think they made the necessary adjustments on that O-line.

02:55It's great.

02:56You got Chase and you got Higgins to throw the ball to.

02:58I think Brown's going to have a good year as a running back.

03:01But I just don't think that they are going to be able to have

03:04one of the all-time great offensive seasons in the NFL in back-to-back years,

03:10given the state of that offensive line.

03:12I think you're just asking too much of Joe Burrow.

03:15So that is kind of my take.

03:18My concern, and where I'm worried I'm wrong about,

03:20is just, as the kids would say,

03:23Joe Burrow is him.

03:24Like, he is very good at this whole quarterbacking thing.

03:28And I am banking on something not happening that we just saw last season.

03:34Like, this isn't a,

03:35oh, I think there's going to be a breakout or whatever.

03:36It's like, I think that thing that we saw 17 times,

03:39I think that's a lie.

03:41That's where I get a little bit of a concern with,

03:43is that I am going against something that has happened already.

03:46And so to say it's not going to happen again,

03:48I just get a little bit of a,

03:49am I there on that one?

03:51We'll see.

03:52So that's the number five thing that I'm worried I'm wrong about.

03:55Number four is the fall off in Detroit.

03:58I think that the Lions,

04:00coaching staff, you lost a lot of brainpower this year.

04:02But I think Ragnow going down on the offensive line,

04:05and if you've listened to all the previews so far,

04:07and you took a shot every time that I mentioned Ragnow's injury,

04:12I'm sorry for your loss.

04:13Because I've brought it up a lot.

04:15But I think it's a big deal.

04:16This is a team that has Super Bowl aspirations.

04:19And their Pro Bowl center,

04:21in the middle of the offseason,

04:22not even in the middle of the offseason,

04:24three-quarters of the way through the offseason,

04:26after they would have had an opportunity to draft

04:28or go out and sign someone in free agency,

04:31he just up and called it quits.

04:33And not saying anything negative about him

04:36because it's his body, it's his life,

04:40go out and do that thing.

04:41If you think that you are too beat up or too whatever

04:44to continue to play this sport,

04:47then don't.

04:49Don't do that.

04:50So I have no ill will against him.

04:53I am just saying I think that's a big loss

04:55on the interior of an offense with a quarterback

04:58who kind of needs everything to be perfect

04:59to get these things going.

05:01And it's been perfect for a couple years

05:03and it has worked.

05:04I just feel like it's too many things

05:06going against them this year

05:08to have this play out the way that it did

05:10the last couple of seasons.

05:12Where I'm worried I'm wrong is,

05:13again, we've just seen them be good before.

05:16And you could have said a lot of these same things

05:18about Philadelphia.

05:19Philadelphia, so much of what they do

05:21is based on having one of the best offensive lines

05:23in the league.

05:24They have a play that teams have tried to get banned

05:27based off of shoving the center basically forward

05:31with the quarterback behind him.

05:33And then they lost one of the best centers of all time

05:35and they just kept running

05:38and then they won the Super Bowl.

05:39So I'm worried that the Lions have recovered from this

05:44way better than I thought.

05:46The, I guess, high-level play

05:49that they had on the offensive side

05:51wasn't just very good play calling

05:54and more on the Jimmys and Joes

05:57than the Xs and Os coming from Ben Johnson.

05:59And then this team steps up

06:01and still finds a way to be very good.

06:02So that's where I'm concerned I am wrong there.

06:05Again, I don't think I am,

06:06but that is the one that I'm concerned I am wrong on.

06:09At number three, my worry is that

06:12the upgrades the Minnesota Vikings made

06:14will not be able to offset the change at quarterback

06:20if J.J. McCarthy isn't very good.

06:22Because right now, I think it is.

06:23I think that they have the best receiver in the league.

06:26I think they have a pretty good running back room.

06:28I think they have a great offensive line

06:29and I think they have a very talented defense

06:32and just an incredibly well-coached football team.

06:35The only thing you don't love going into this season

06:38about the Minnesota Vikings is the quarterback spot.

06:41And it's not that they have a bad quarterback,

06:43it's just they have one we haven't seen before.

06:45My thought is that going into last season,

06:50we thought they had a bad quarterback in Sam Darnold.

06:54All this, oh well, Sam Darnold's actually an upgrade

06:56over Geno Smith out in Seattle, da-da-da-da-da.

06:58We weren't saying that 12 months ago.

07:00We were talking about how this is kind of the last chance

07:03and this guy would have been keeping the seat warm

07:05if J.J. McCarthy hadn't got hurt.

07:07So, an offensive scheme that was able to get the most

07:11out of a quarterback that was seeing ghosts in some other spots

07:14now gets this just fresh bit of clay to mold any way they want

07:19with a better roster around than what they had a season ago

07:23while still having all the great minds that led them that way.

07:26I am really, really high on the Minnesota Vikings going into this season.

07:32And, I mean, it's obvious where this falls apart

07:34is that J.J. McCarthy is more Will Levis than he is rookie Joe Flacco.

07:42I don't know why that's the pull I made, but you know what I mean,

07:45where that year Flacco and Ryan, as rookies,

07:48took their teams to the playoffs, it went really well.

07:50The concern is that he is just impossibly bad

07:54and does irreparable damage to the offense

07:56in a way where they can't overcome it.

07:59Like, that one, that's, again, these first three,

08:02it's pretty easy straight lines to see where it could go wrong.

08:05This one, it's obvious.

08:06It is just like, okay, well, if he sucks, then they suck.

08:09Like, there's just no working around that,

08:11even if they have a great roster around it.

08:13I think they've insulated it enough that he's going to be fine,

08:16but I'm a little worried about that one there.

08:19At number two, the thing I am the second most worried about

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08:42The thing that I am worried about number two on the list

08:45is the offensive breakout that I am presuming will come

08:48for the Kansas City Chiefs.

08:50This one has a lot to do with fantasy football.

08:54I mean, look, all of these have something to do

08:56with fantasy football, right?

08:57Like, looking at the Bengals situation,

08:59I'm a little bit lower on Burrow than others.

09:01I'm a little bit lower on Chase than others.

09:03I'm quite a bit lower on Higgins than others.

09:06I'm still there on Brown a little bit,

09:08but still a little bit lower on all of them.

09:11And if I'm wrong, then those are some pretty big misses to have.

09:15Same thing with Detroit.

09:16I'm low, Jameer Gibbs was one of my more overvalued players

09:20in fantasy football this season.

09:22I'm not touching Jared Goff.

09:24I think Jamison Williams is a fantastic talent.

09:27And just keeper-wise, I have him locked in

09:29on a couple of different rosters.

09:31But I have some concerns about him.

09:33I'm in Ross St. Brown.

09:34It's volume.

09:35He's going to be fine.

09:36But I have some worries about that.

09:38And again, if I am wrong,

09:39then those are some pretty big misses that I'm having.

09:42While on the Minnesota side, like, again, Justin Jefferson,

09:46I have him as the best receiver in football.

09:49And I think the offense is still going to be good enough

09:51that when Jalen Addison comes back,

09:53he's going to be a very valuable member of that roster.

09:56Aaron Jones, I think, is going to be good.

09:58So again, if McCarthy is just so bad

10:00that none of those are usable,

10:02then that's a pretty big whiff.

10:05And now on Kansas City,

10:06I think I'm higher on a lot of these options

10:08than a lot of people are.

10:10And the main thing about it is Rasheed Rice.

10:13I just, I know that there is a number one receiver there.

10:19I understand that there are some concerns.

10:23But I think you look at how well

10:25he was starting to play last season.

10:28And I know, like, it wasn't perfect.

10:29But when you look at how young this kid is,

10:32the gifts that he has,

10:34and what he was starting to show,

10:36if you just, like, extrapolate that

10:40over a 17-game season,

10:42then maybe it's not number one wide receiver numbers.

10:44But if you factor in any improvement at all,

10:46because the kid is still young and really good

10:48and in one of the best offensive systems

10:50the National Football League's ever seen,

10:52then I think you can really see

10:53where a number one receiver comes out there.

10:55And then when you look at the rest of the roster,

10:58you have him as a number one,

11:00if you believe that, which I do.

11:01You have Xavier Worthy, who's not a number one.

11:04Despite what Taylor Swift could be running around

11:06celebrating with, he's not a number one.

11:08So that just put him in a bad spot last season.

11:13What he can be, though, is big over-the-top guy.

11:16And so if you are focusing, you're underneath

11:18on Rasheed Rice,

11:20and a safety has an eye down there,

11:22then all of a sudden Xavier Worthy

11:24is just pulling the top off your defense.

11:25Well, that's when Patrick Mahomes in this offense

11:27really takes it to another level.

11:29And then you have Hollywood Brown as a number three,

11:31as an underneath guy,

11:33and Travis Kelsey,

11:34who I am still thinking

11:35there's going to be some improvements on

11:36from last season.

11:38I think that there is going to be

11:40a lot of weapons that Mahomes has to choose from,

11:44and I think Pacheco is better

11:45than a lot of people are assuming

11:46that he's going to be

11:48based off of seeing him after injury last season.

11:51So I am very high

11:54on what Kansas City still can be as an offense.

11:57The reason I'm worried I'm wrong

11:59is that I've been really high on this group,

12:01and you can get infatuated with the talent

12:03for the last few years,

12:05and the fact is,

12:06it has been a mid-offense

12:07for the last couple of years.

12:09Now they've gotten to Super Bowls,

12:10they've won Super Bowls

12:11in the past couple of years,

12:12because the defense is that damn good.

12:14But I think from a fantasy perspective,

12:16I am really high on a lot of these guys.

12:18We did the mock draft

12:19from the number one overall spot,

12:20and obviously I didn't take Mahomes

12:22number one overall,

12:23but we ended up with a Mahomes and Rice stack

12:26to go along with Jamar Chase

12:28as our number one right receiver.

12:30And so with that,

12:32I obviously,

12:33I think pretty highly

12:34of what Patrick Mahomes

12:35in this offense can do.

12:36And I think that we are going to see that

12:39at a high level this year.

12:40But if they are just

12:41dink and dunk,

12:42let's just survive in advance

12:43and move on,

12:44then that's going to be a pretty big whiff

12:46on my part.

12:46And the number one thing

12:47that I am worried about

12:48for the upcoming NFL season,

12:50worried I'm wrong about

12:51for the upcoming NFL season,

12:53is the improvements I think

12:56are coming for the New York Jets.

12:58I don't have as much baked in

13:00from a fantasy standpoint

13:02on these guys.

13:03This one is more

13:04from a wagering standpoint

13:05and from a predictions point of view.

13:08But still,

13:09I think that this offense

13:11and this team,

13:13this is still the roster,

13:15basically,

13:15that people were excited about

13:1712 months ago

13:18to see how Aaron Rodgers would do

13:21with this team.

13:22And I didn't think

13:24Aaron Rodgers was very good

13:26and he showed that he wasn't.

13:27And everyone just remembers

13:29that last game

13:29when he was stat hunting

13:30to try to get the touchdown mark

13:32and forgets just how miserable

13:34this season was.

13:36I think you have a coach

13:37that is going to hold

13:37people accountable,

13:38which was desperately needed

13:39out there.

13:40And I believe in the

13:41Justin Fields experiment

13:43with the New York Jets.

13:45I believe that there is

13:45a talented quarterback there.

13:47I get it hasn't looked awesome

13:48in preseason games

13:49and the reports coming out

13:50of training camp

13:51and the joint practices

13:53haven't been awesome.

13:54So that's, again,

13:55this is an easy one

13:56to figure out

13:57where this prediction goes wrong.

13:58It's that he's just bad.

14:00You know, like this offense,

14:01the problems,

14:02maybe it wasn't all Aaron Rodgers,

14:04but this kid isn't good enough

14:05to fix whatever

14:06those problems were.

14:07So that's where I'm worried

14:08that I am wrong.

14:09But I've just, again,

14:11I brought this team up

14:12on basically every preview show.

14:13I think people are just forgetting

14:15how hyped we were

14:17about what they could be last year

14:19and how the problems

14:21that were there

14:22were easily fixable

14:25and I believe have now been fixed.

14:27So I just feel like

14:29there is a much better season

14:31coming for the New York Jets

14:32than people are anticipating.

14:33But again,

14:34if I'm wrong on this one,

14:35then this is going to be

14:36one of the worst teams in football

14:37and I'm going to have

14:40taken a pretty big swing

14:41and a miss on this one.

14:42So those are the things

14:43that I am the most worried about

14:45going into the NFL season.

14:47Let me know

14:47either in the chat

14:48if you're watching this live

14:49or in the comments below

14:50after the fact.

14:51If you think I'm out to lunch

14:53on any of these,

14:53if you think,

14:54oh yeah,

14:54you're already wrong on this,

14:56how dare you?

14:57Or what are you worried

14:58that you're wrong about?

14:59A take that you have

15:00that's like,

15:00you know what?

15:01I believe this,

15:01but in the back of my mind,

15:03don't love that.

15:05Let me know

15:06in the comments section.

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