the American Football Association The season is usually time for hope.
Each team employs its new and signs its new players and brings long -term building blocks in the draft, and at this time of the year, everyone wants to believe that everything will work well. This is the case even as soon as we roll into pre -season games, because there is still time to clarify all cells.
But of course, we know that things do not always work for the better. There are always challenges that emerge or things that need to be overcome. For this reason we are here today. We want to take a look at some of the biggest challenges or issues facing each of them The American Football Association team Next season.
Today we will start by looking at NFC and closing matters with 16 AFC teams on Tuesday.
NFC East
Dallas Cobwations: Defense Run
Dallas has struggled to stop opposing running games for years yet, and hasn’t done all this much to upgrade the defensive interior of this season. Unless the choice of Mazi Smith in the first round will take a step forward (and it will be difficult for him to do so in a plan that does not fit his set of skills), it will be up to men like Suleiman Thomas and Berion Winfrey to deal with important roles, while midfielder Maris Liuvo, Kenneth Murray, Jack Sanburn, Damoni Clark. His hideous knee injury.
New York Giants: Play Corterbeck
The giants with Hanan Daniel Jones ended in the middle of last season and will eventually move to Jackson Dart, but before that, there will be a lot of Russell Wilson – this is a major question mark. When Ross runs hot on the deep ball, things can look good, as I did in an extension in the middle of last season in Pittsburg. With Malik Nabers and Darius Slayton as surrounding threats, there is a possibility to repeat some of this. But when Ross does not hit the bombs, it does not bring everything else to the table at this stage, and there where you can face the crime of giants more than a little trouble.
Philadelphia Eagles: Repeated results
The eagles won Super Ball Last year, it is clear that it is very difficult to do twice in a row. But even after that, it may be difficult to repeat what they did on every side of the ball in 2024. Philadelphia was so dominant in the running game that it could not happen again. (There are already some of the offensive line question marks while leaving Mekhi Becton at free agency and Landon Dickerson gets MRI. In addition, there is a huge Saquon Barkley’s work burden.) On the defense, the rotation of the defensive back stadium is a possible issue. They have already added Jacurian Bennett that the beach of this issue. It should be very good, but it is possible that it will expect to take a small step back from last year.
Washington leaders: passing the rush
Even after signing von Miller, the clamps still do not have much on the path of juice that comes out of the edge. Miller himself retreated to six common bags and 11 Qurtubbere strikes during the last two seasons, and is likely to fill a role similar to the role he played in Boufalo. Dorrance Armstrong has always been better than the person you can rely on for constant pressure, and after the loss of Dante Fowler Junior to Dallas, the rest of the group is completely inspiring. In addition, they replaced Jonathan Allen inside the Javon Kinlaw, which brings the latter very little in the pass section. Washington has great expectations about the attack, but the defense is more than a question mark.
NFC North
Chicago Birz: meeting high expectations
Although there was almost no success last year, Bears crime expectations in 2025 are very high. This will happen when you hire a former Wunderkind attack coordinator as a main coach for you in Ben Johnson, then completely reshape your offensive line by trading with a thick and Johohn Jackson and Drou Dalman’s signature, then drafting the narrow end Kolston Lovland in the first round, both on a large scale Luther Burdeen Third and the confrontation of Ozi Ozi Tillepo in the second. Suddenly, Calip Williams and his partners seem to have no excuses for only the second year of his career in the American Football Association. This is a difficult place in the first year of a complex new system.
Detroit Lyons: offensive rotation
Talking about Johnson, no longer managed the show in Detroit. Former Broncos Assistant John Morton (who was a special assistant to Johnson in Detroit in 2022) is now the coordinator of the attack. This is not the only important change. The dominant offensive line on which the team’s identity was built suddenly in the flow. Kevin Zitrler left the team in a free agency, and Frank Rajno retired shortly before the opening of the training camp. Al -Aswad is expected to use the second round of Tate Ratledge at the center, but it has already returned it to guard, with Graham Glasco moving from a goalkeeper to the center and entering Christian Maojni in the place of the other guard. This means new beginners at each internal spot, two of them have almost no experience.
Green Bay Packers: wide receptions (again)
Green Bay Matthew Golden has been formulated in the hope that he would remove things here, but there are still a lot of question marks when it comes to this room. Will Jaiden Reed be allowed to play in reception groups? Will not actually pick up the ball when it opens? If Christian Watson returns to the field, can he be more than just a deep artist? Will Romeo Dobs be unhappy again now after there was another mouth to feed him? Can Golden be at a level higher than his personal file (relatively) Medioocre College Proformation that he can? (Will he abandon this 22 shirt that makes him look terrible?) Bakrz needs to find answers to all these questions and more than that, Jordan’s love can reach its roof.
Minnesota Vikings: Corner
There is a reason that we allowed the smiles of the free agent to sign the Isaiah Rodgers as the Vikings The most important thing they do not go for 2025. “The Fixes have lost many players from high school last year, and it will depend on Rodgers for one of the external corner sites. It has been a good performance in the past few years when he was relied upon to enter the line of eagles, but it is likely that it is a principle that lasts now, and in one of the difficult situations, he does not walk, or does not represent a attacker. Things may change significantly on this side of the ball.”
NFC South
Atlanta Falcons: Passing the rush
What is new for falcons? They have not found a way to rush to passers -by since about 1957 – and they have not existed until 1966, so you can move forward and discover that. In Atlanta double to rush in the first round of the draft this year by bringing Galon Walker and James Pears Junior, and these men will need to play an important role in Merciful’s defense because, frankly there is not much rush juice elsewhere in the list. If they cannot constantly reach Qurtubbere, the hawks may end again in a set of shootings.
Carolina Panthers: Decree Pass
Al -Fahud examined the second to the last in the expected points (EPA) for each time permitted last season, via Tru Media, with Qurtubbere opponents in clean pockets and their secondary selection to the pieces. Carolina got only 25.2 % pressure (dead) declines and also first in the average time of pressure (2.75 seconds). There was no level of turmoil for anything that the passers -by wanted to do at any level. As a result, Carolina resulted in a first landing on 38.7 % of passes (also dead) and explosive plays on 8.6 % of declines (27 in the American Football Association). If things do not change this year, it may not matter the improvement in the attack as it seems.
New Orleans of Saints: Play Corterbeck
Therefore, this team will start one of Spencer Ratterer and Jake Henner and choose the second round Tyler Shouf below the middle. They may be better with the main coach Kelen Moore tie the towels again and give them Go himself, given what we saw from Rattler and Haener in their chances last year and the like reports of Shift from the saints camp. Things can become very ugly on this front.
Tamba Bay Boukanrers: offensive injuries
This represents a challenge to develop TAMPA, which would have already had to move in the loss of offensive coordinator Liam Quinn, who took over the main armored function of Jacksonville and is replaced by Josh Grizard. Tampa Star saw the Treistan treatment and jumped for a knee surgery a few weeks ago, and we do not yet know whether he would return to the field or when he would return to the field. Chris Godwin is still working on his return from the ousted ankle, which ended his 2024 season. Now Rashad White passes with a thigh injury. Bucs has suitable alternatives to Godwin (Emeka Egbuka, Jalen McMillan) and White (SEAN TUCKER), but it remains to see how they deal with Tackle (Charlie HECK?) If Wirfs miss games.
NFC West
Arizona Cardinal: The Creativity of the game
Cardinals managed to operate the ball somewhat successfully during the era of Jonathan Ganon. James Conner was very effective and the offensive line that was suffering from his inability was able to clarify the way for him with greater holes than expected. With the Klayton Adams coordinator now in Dallas, things can become more difficult in that front, which means that the traffic game needs an escalation. The Cardinals were largely inactive with their use of Marcon Harrison Junior last year, and turned the air attack into “Marvin Please Win 50-50 Balls” or “Trey McBRIDE, Go do Stuff”. This cannot happen again. Drew Petzing and Co. Better answers this year.
Los Angeles Rams: Age and injuries
Perhaps I heard that Matthew Stavord is dealing with a back injury. The 37 -year -old cortptic injuries are wandering together like Lamb and Tuna Fish. If it has to be absent from time, this entire process collapses, even if you think Jimmy Garopolo is a capable backup copy. The rams need Stavord to stay in good health because his arm and mind open a lot to what they want to do in an aggressive manner. They also cannot afford the costs of Puka Nacua, and Alaric Jackson deals with injury issues on its own. All this feels a very witness, even if the ceiling is high.
San Francisco 49ers: defensive rotation
We also wrote in Burning questions series“Defense Coordinator Nick Surinson was replaced by the former coach of Jets (and former coordinator for the defense of Niners) Robert Salam, whose defenses showed an improvement with every season that passes that he was in San Francisco. But Niners also have many new players on this side of the ball. Like Tre Brown, Richie Grant and Jason. Pinnock in Free Agency, Price Hove via trade, Michael Williams, Alfred Collins, Nick Martin and CJ West in the draft.
Seattle C Hoks: offensive line
When talking about urgent questions … we wrote about the experience of Sam Darnold and how he was vulnerable to pressure behind the easy to penetrate attack lines, compared to what he was able to do for most of the year in Minnesota. “Darnold will play in an offensive system similar to the nucleus that he was under the leadership of Kevin Okonil in Minnesota now after Clint Kubak took over as an offensive coordinator in Seattle, but he will not have the same type of infrastructure he was giving with the difference. Weak points will leave him along the offensive line vulnerable to pressure, which was a major issue for him in the past.