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Ai Backtracks On Bold Preseason Playoff Picture With New Talksport

Bonisiwe Shabane
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ai backtracks on bold preseason playoff picture with new talksport

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Of course, plenty of football will be played before two teams touch down at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, with hopes of hoisting the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The 2025 regular season kicks off in just under two months, when the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles host the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday, September 4. And while 18 weekends of furious NFL action will follow, it’s never too early to think about the playoffs. The 2025 NFL season is finally here! After covering the biggest stories of the offseason, spending a whole week looking back at the past 25 years and ranking the 60 people who will most influence Super Bowl LX, it’s time for... Check below for The MMQB’s staff predictions for award winners and full playoff brackets, including Super Bowl champions and MVPs.

Plus, each of our writers and editors give one bold prediction, covering everything from rookies, to trades to surprise playoff teams and the Super Bowl halftime show. Super Bowl: Bills 34, Rams 27; Josh Allen MVP MVP: Joe BurrowOPOY: Bijan RobinsonDPOY: Jared VerseOROY: Ashton JeantyDROY: Abdul CarterProtector: Lane JohnsonComeback: Aidan HutchinsonCoach: Raheem Morris Parity is overrated—I’m predicting a trend-breaker, in that there’s just one new team in each conference bracket. And to me, that would just be a further manifestation of the way the league’s been trending for quite some time. Some people get worked up about preseason NFL rankings, especially when our numbers suggest that their favorite team will be worse than the popular consensus.

That’s to be expected. No one else ranks teams exactly like we do, and our approach often discounts things that many pundits think matter. We also have very specific goals for our preseason ratings—chiefly, to predict margins of victory this season—which don’t always line up with other rankings makers. Predicting how 32 teams will perform over a full season is hard. No system is perfect, including ours. We’ll get some teams a little wrong and some very wrong.

But over time, our approach has done well by the yardsticks we care about most, like predicting game margins and end‑of‑season performance levels. Don’t just look at where a team is ranked—look at the rating next to it. Ratings show how tightly bunched teams are and where the real tiers are. For example, in our 2025 preseason ratings: With two weeks left in the NFL season, the playoff field is mostly set: Ten teams have clinched playoff berths and four more are still available. Here’s how the NFL playoff picture looks heading into Week 17:

1. Broncos (12-3) If they win out, they’re the No. 1 seed in the AFC. 2. Patriots (12-3) Would lose the common-games tiebreaker to the Broncos. 3.

Jaguars (11-4) The clear favorites in the AFC South. 4. Steelers (9-6) In the driver’s seat in the AFC North. Entering Week 12 of the 2025 NFL regular season, Ali Bhanpuri digs into the Next Gen Stats playoff probability model, which provides detailed estimates of each contending team's postseason chances. During live games, playoff probabilities are dynamically updated every five minutes, incorporating the latest win probabilities from NGS for all ongoing games in every simulation. Visit NFL.com's Playoff Picture for a live look at the latest postseason odds.

(Teams with less than 10% probability to earn a playoff spot.) Senior Special Projects Lead Tom Blair and Manager of NFL Research Jack Andrade contributed to this story. The 2025 NFL schedule release was the final piece of the puzzle towards projecting the upcoming season. While we already knew all 17 opponents for each franchise, we can see how the season could evolve based on tough stretches, bye weeks, and the timing of certain matchups. With the NFL schedule in place, let’s take a look at how PFSN’s Football Playoff Meter (FPM) projects the 2025 season. After that, we’ll fire up PFSN’s Playoff Predictor and see what happens in a single simulation of the 2025 season.

Taken from CSN’s Football Playoff Meter, the NFL version of FPM projects the 2025 season unfolding like this in each conference based on the early preseason projections. Per usual, the Big Three of the Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, and Kansas City Chiefs have the top-three win and playoff projections in the AFC. However, the Chiefs project to face a much more difficult path to winning the division in the deep AFC West compared to the Bills and Ravens. The highest AFC win projection for a non-playoff team from 2024 belongs to the Cincinnati Bengals. Most metrics projected the Bengals favorably due to their high-powered offense and the fact that the majority of their losses came in tight games in 2024. Artificial flavoring.

Artificial sweeteners. Artificial plants. Artificial intelligence (AI). Technology has taken artificial to the forefront, making it so even a square peg can fit into a round hole, bridging the gap in all situations. Don't know what song to listen to? The algorithm will figure it out.

Don't know how to find your destination? The self-driving car can handle that. Don't understand what you just read? AI can summarize it. Society soaks up everything artificial because it's more convenient or tastes better. Laziness or convenience?

You be the judge. No matter how popular those fake things become, nothing can ever replace the original. As we embark on the early days of NFL training camp, it's important to have some fun, even if the robots continue to conquer more and more in some sort of ode to imperialism. Will Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs rebound after a Super Bowl beatdown? Which NFL team will surprise? Who will be the league's best and who will be the worst?

Last Updated: May 16, 2025 6:47 PM EDT • 8 minute read X Social Google News Link After learning the full NFL schedule this week, we turned to an old friend to help us make our 2025 NFL season predictions for every single game. After we used ChatGPT to correctly predict the Kentucky Derby earlier this month, we trained the AI model to predict all 272 games of the NFL season using the latest odds from our best... Read on for our full NFL AI simulations including game-by-game picks for all 18 weeks of the regular season, ChatGPT's projected Super Bowl winner, and the results of every major award ahead the 2025... To simulate the entire 2025 NFL season, we trained the latest version of ChatGPT using OpenAI's "Deep Research" function - which allows the AI model to utilize real-time search access and compile massive amount...

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