CLEVELAND, OH — With the 2024-25 NFL season set to kickoff this coming Thursday. Football is always interesting as it is unpredictable with a surprise team coming out of no where to steal the show. Here are my top five bold predictions for this season.
1.) Browns fire Kevin Stefanski, bench Watson for Winston by Week 8: Perhaps the craziest and boldest prediction of all, this would literally send shockwaves throughout the whole league if this actually happens. Despite leading the Browns to two playoff appearances in six years and winning NFL Coach of the Year twice, Stefanski could very well be on a short leash if the Browns don’t come out early.
How and why?
Potentially losing the locker room in getting off to a slow start, an placating $230 bust-in-the-making in Deshaun Watson, who continues his horrors form in Cleveland. Ken Dorsey replaces Stefanski, who then turns to Winston and engineers a late season run into the postseason.
2.) QB Jayden Daniels Edges Out Caleb Williams for OROTY: This may not be too far fetched, thanks to the 2023 Heisman Trophy winner out of LSU, channeling RG3 in our nation’s capital.
Losing Dotson to the rival Eagles is going to hurt, but having Scary Terry as WR1 and a possibly a former Sun Devil teammate currently stuck in the Bay makes Jayden a lock.
3.) Kirk Cousins Wins NFL MVP, Leads Falcons to NFC Championship Game: Whoever is Cousins’ agent deserves a serious raise!
Franchised twice, client secures another big bag. Check. ✅
Dome team. Check. ✅
Weakest division in the league. Check. ✅
Two games vs. Carolina and New Orleans. Check and check. ✅
Did I fail to mention that Cousins has a dog at running back in Bijan Robinson, Kyle Pitts at TE and Drake London at WR. Also, don’t sleep on a suddenly revamped Falcons defense that just added S Justin Simmons and LB Matthew Judon.
Captain Kirk may finally earns his promotion to Commander down in Sherman’s playground in leading the Falcons to the No.2 seed and a 12-5 record.
4.) Colts bench Anthony Richardson for Joe Flacco: This would pain Browns fans more than Colts fans of this actually happened. With Watson looking more and more washed, the Colts move Joe Flacco to QB1 after seeing AR-5 fire one too many off-target blanks to the wrong team, as he cements his status as JaMarcus Russell 2.0
5.) Packers upset Chiefs In Super Bowl LIX, Jordan Love Named Super Bowl MVP: This would be shocking—but no too shocking m—considering the intense amount of pressure and scrutiny that the two-time defending Super Bowl champions face this season.
The Chiefs are EVERYWHERE. On commercials, across social media, and then of course there is the “Taylor Swift effect”, which while good, also could come back to haunt them.
For all the love that the Chiefs get, they are, in essence a walking red-gold media circus. That extra attention and spotlight wears on people, which leads to a lot of negatives coming out more in the news.
Flying under the radar this season is a dangerous and hungry Packers team that is loaded with talent, and led by QB Jordan Love. Green Bay is the NFL’s experimental lab when it comes to developing QB’s the right way.
Favre to Rodgers to Love.
Two HOF QB’s in 30 years, and if last season was an indication, Love looks like a lock to be their third one. People need to also look at the talent that QB has on offense surrounding Love in Christian Watson, Arron Jacobs at RB and an underrated defense.
I see Love going on a Rodgers-level postseason run of legendary proportions with the Packers stealing the Chiefs third Lombardi right under their nose.
Bet money!