2026 NFL Season Outlook: Surprises and Predictions

Well for the NFL season this coming year, I mean who do you have and who do you like this year? On the teams that you think may be making a move there this year Well, you know another team that I think is interesting that that is not getting a whole lot of buzz Is one of the very best teams in the league and that's the san francisco 49ers uh The los angeles rams are making all the headlines with miles garrett and aaron donald and this and that you've got the defending super bowl champion seattle seahawks, you know uh Ready to to run it back and this and that and the other and and nobody's talking about this team that I think has gotten better And gotten healthier and and that's one of the huge formulas in the nfl You got to stay healthy, right if the 14 minors can stay healthy, which they have struggled to do certainly on occasion Um, I I think they're as good as anybody in the game. Uh, you add mike evans I think that's tremendous for that kyle shanahan offense christian kirk I think fits into that mold as well. Ricky pierce all of he stays healthy. I think is an excellent possession receiver Uh the kid they drafted as a backup for christian mcafree. I think will turn out to be a very good running back No surprise a running back works in the shanahan system So that's a team I bet at 10 to 1 to win the nfc and i've seen that number come down Apparently i'm not alone in my liking of the 49ers. I've seen that number come down to about 7 to 1 The other bet i've made in the offseason dan is going against the patriots It's kind of an age-old trend to go against the team that lost the super bowl in the year prior It's very hard to recover from that hangover and we see that time and time again We know the schedule has gotten much more difficult for the patriots and oh, yeah There's a little offseason distraction going on too I don't think the next season sets up real well for mike grable and company. I took their season win total under 10 So you think potentially then that the aj brown acquisition? will be a negative on the football team because of Think about where he came from he came from a team the last four years brady. That was 50 and 18 He was making 32 million dollars and if you're not happy there How are you going to be happy in new england? So you think maybe on the other side that they may be something that takes that team off focus plus they got a harder schedule They got a harder schedule. We saw how Susceptible to pressure that offensive line was not only in the playoffs, but especially in the super bowl Uh, you know drake may coming back Is he going to be able to be as good as he was last year? Probably not not going to be awful I imagine but you know, maybe the reunion with mike grable with aj brown, maybe that lends a spark to the situation But I just think overall the patriots are going to come back to the pack off of what they did last year in a miraculous type season