The Most Interesting NFL Offenses of 2025

26:51So I think what I want to see from this Dolphins offense, I think the passing game is going to be fine, especially if you get Tyree Kill and Jalen Waddell playing together healthy. But you need some more oomph from the blocking, especially with your tight end especially with the receivers because because they play so much 11 and 21 personnel that requires a lot from your receivers blocking I think Nick Westbrook-Akine was one of my favorite value signings of free agency because he is such a good blocker and does some of the dirty work over the middle of the field that the Dolphins have really lacked the Dolphins offense has lacked an edge even when Mike McDaniel was revolutionizing the NFL when he first got there, they have lacked an edge for such a long time.

27:37So I'm hoping this year, even I just hope they get a little bit better on in those short yardage, those goal to go situations, just show a little bit more edge and physicality. Yeah. You know, Aaron Brewer has been coming off of an injury, but I believe he's been back on the field that their center on paper, the offensive line looks pretty good. I know Dolphins fans are very sensitive right now about everyone in the national media just picking on them and them seeming like, you know, it could all go very wrong. There is absolutely a world where this offense goes very right. Tyreek Hill in a contract year, I think that could be a factor for him.

28:19I could see him having like one great last year, Jalen Waddell. All reports have been really positive with him and healthy. And And the two of them are as dynamic and fast as it gets. Darren Waller, I'm not expecting a lot, but they're hoping he's returning to practice at some point this week. But it's something you can count on. And like you said, a more athletic, young offensive line with Achan really leading the way in the backfield. When he has the time, Tua at this point should have a master's level degree in this offense. And we've seen the difference between him being on the field and the rest.

28:55There is absolutely a world where they make everyone look stupid by putting up a lot of points. But I do think you kind of need not a second move, JP, but you just need to evolve as a head coach. And I think Mike McDaniel, especially in the running game, needs to show that he can evolve. One coach I think did do a good job evolving, JP, Cliff Kingsbury last year. It was a little different. Did he? Were you surprised? I'm going to go commanders as my next one. Were you surprised how they kept it rolling, even getting better towards the end? I was definitely surprised. I have been a Cliff Kingsbury hater ever since he was at Texas Tech.

29:33He shut me up last year. I was actually really impressed with the way that he was able to keep that offense rolling, kind of develop and change the offense and sort of grow with his young quarterback. And I think that's the biggest thing that I learned from watching the NFL last year. You can grow with your young quarterback. You don't have to throw every master's level QB stuff at him right now. When he first gets into the NFL, just throw the easy stuff at him. And as he grows, as he gets game time, you can start to add more stuff into the offense. But now it feels like the commanders are firmly entrenched in being one of the better teams in the NFL offensively.

30:15Well, this is why I find them interesting. Are they? I mean, it was, it was one year. um and so what what are you going to do basically for for number two yeah that that's also been sort of my question with the commander's offense is how will you throw a counter punch this year because jayden daniels was really good last year and really really efficient without turning the ball over and i think that there's probably going to be some turnover regression there's there's probably that's probably going to happen it happens in the nfl but i think what's really going to help them, of course, outside of Terry McLaurin being back on this team, is if you get a healthy Debo Samuel to do all the RPO stuff, because that's really where this offense is built.

31:02It is built on the RPO game, kind of spreading everybody out, and being able to use Jaden Daniels' legs as a threat in that area. It really has to be Debo Samuel that can be the guy that he's always been before 2023, 2024. Right. And he's kind of come and gone really since 2019. And it's gone up, it's gone down. He's had moments. I just wonder, how does their profile change this year? They were really unique in what they did last year. Cliff Kingsbury always plays at a really fast pace. And these numbers are from the FDN Almanac, the Football Outsiders, you know, by Aaron Schatz. They went no huddle more than 62 % of the time.

31:53The next closest team was 28%. It was a team that was not great throwing over the middle. That was a little bit of a knock on Jaden Daniels when you were comparing him to Drake May, let's say, coming out of college. Not great over the middle. Well, they didn't really throw over the middle much. It was all to the outside. And teams, when they went against them for such a good running team, they played single high a ton. And you do wonder if teams will adjust to Jaden Daniels as a scrambler because his scrambling, JP, it wasn't really the run game, like working him as part of the running game. A lot of it was just the scrambles.

32:33His scramble yards and first downs and everything was so far above any other quarterback. And so teams were playing them with the single high. They weren't trying to prevent the big play, and they took advantage of it a lot of times with Jaden Daniels scrambling. So they did not throw the ball deep very much. When you think of Jaden Daniels, he's such a great deep throw, but they really didn't. That wasn't what they did well. And so So there's just an interesting concoction of strengths and weaknesses, and maybe it can all work again, and maybe they've got a good 2.0 plan. I think Jane Daniels has shown he's ready to handle just about anything.

33:12But I'm just curious what you think it might look like this year versus what it looked like last year. I'm also curious in what this offensive line is going to look like, especially Larry Matunzel, who has the pedigree of being one of the top 10 tackles in the NFL. No, but last year was brutal by any standards, but especially his standards, especially from the pre-snap penalty perspective. A whole lot of false starts, illegal formations. He was penalized a lot last year, and maybe that's going to change with being in a new environment. You draft Josh Connerly to play right tackle. You move, I think, Brandon Coleman to left guard.

33:52You bring back Sam Cosme from injury. There's, I'm very curious on how this offensive line grows, because if you're going to spread teams out so much and you're going to play all the RPO stuff that you're not, not bringing any, any extra blockers in the run game, it is really five on five in the, uh, in the run game. And that's why Jane Daniels as a scrambler. That's why Jane Daniels is a run threat matter so much because you're easing some of the stress on the offensive line. So I wonder how they're going to be able to keep the run game efficient, especially in the running back runs area where they just weren't that good in true running back runs.

34:34Maybe Ja 'Cory Krosky-Merritt is the savior. Maybe that's a thing. Bill gets a mention on the show. I love it. Shout out to Bill. I'm curious by Bill Krosky-Merritt. I think he can be really fun in the offense. if they can generate some more success with their running back runs, maybe that'll help alleviate some of the stress on Daniels as a runner and help kind of open up more lanes for the offense. Yeah, they're just such a unique team because you add Tunsil and it sounds like Sam Cosme, their all-pro guard will be back, they hope, this season earlier than you would expect considering how serious his knee injury was.

35:14And yes, you did draft Josh Connerly to play right tackle for this team, but it's an older team. You know, you add Debo. Noah Brown is probably your second best true wide receiver. So without Terry McLaurin back on the field, he's like your number one almost in terms of running like the traditional stuff. Brian Robinson, as we're taping this, it's Monday afternoon. They're going to actually play a preseason game tonight. Brian Robinson's not in that game. And people are like, hmm, are they? You know, there's some buzz that they might be looking to trade him. Zach Ertz is still really involved here.

35:47It's a very old team mixed with Jaden. It just, I find them very interesting. You could tell me they're top five. You could tell me they take a big step back. I would not be shocked either way. Let's take a quick break. We'll be back with more of the most interesting offenses in a little bit.

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39:44Grand Appliance, appliance experts since 1930. One of the reasons I wanted to have J.P. Acosta on the show, I just wanted to hear him talk a little Jags ball. I'm very interested in the Jags. If he wasn't going to talk Jags from his part of the country, I was going to talk Jags. But to me, you're more of like the Jags expert here. I know you've got it all set up for me. Oh, yeah. This is I have spent so many weeks and months leading up to the season emotionally hedging for the possibility that the Jaguars are just not good, which for my entire life, they have not been good. But I actually think this offense is going to be really fun and it's going to be a legitimately good offense.

40:29If I'm using what they've done in the preseason as sort of the barrier for what barometer for what Liam Cohen is going to bring to this offense, it is so much more precise. And there's so much more detail within the offense. There's a there's an idea of what's going on. I think last year there was a whole lot of what are we trying to do? there's no straightforward vision of what's being done so now with liam cohen running the offense there's a straightforward vision there's an idea there's a whole lot more yards after the catch opportunity i think this skill position group is going to be really it's fun it's really fun led by brian thomas jr who i think is fantastic gonna have another great year this upcoming year Travis Hunter is obviously super fun every time he touches the ball.

41:18And you can tell when he touches the ball, he is looking to make a big play. And it's evident every time he gets it after the catch. Brenton Strange has actually really impressed me during this preseason. I was never of the belief that Liam Cohen used his tight ends very much in Tampa. And I think that that's probably because of how Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, and the running backs were used. But Brenton Strange is super athletic. He's played a lot of plays in the receiving game, especially underneath. And now the offense has layers to where Deami Brown is the vertical explosive guy. You have Brian Thomas Jr.

41:55and Travis Hunter as sort of your in-between doing most of this stuff after the catch. You have Brenton Strange as your underneath. And then you also have this running back room, which is really talented. Not even include guys like Baishul Tootin, who shows that he has the juice when he runs. There's just a different feel when he has the ball in his hands. He sort of like bounces around when he runs the ball. And I think it's super cool. So I'm really intrigued by how all of this mixes together. I think Trevor Lawrence has played really well this preseason. Outside of just one hospital ball to Brian Thomas Jr.

42:29against the Steelers, he has been incredibly efficient, razor sharp. I think the footwork has been much cleaner. So I'm in on this Jags offense. I know it's sort of easy to say as someone who's a Jaguars fan, but as someone who has been emotionally hedging against this team, possibly be to make sure this team isn't bad. I think this offense is going to be really good. Yeah, I am optimistic. Maybe not as much as Liam Cohen on day one. And there's a lot of ideas here, right? You know, you have a lot of ideas in the front office with James Gladwell. you have Liam Cohen, obviously. You have Grant Udinski, like one of, if not the youngest offensive coordinators in the league who comes from Minnesota, who's younger than half the players here.

43:12I do love that, you know, when you first signed De 'Ami Brown, I'm like, man, that's, is that a lot for De 'Ami Brown? And now you kind of think about it. It's like, no, he's a role player. Role players now make a$10 million one-year contract. That's actually like your fourth option in the receiving game. That, as you say, is adding layers. And the thing I've liked out of Trevor Lawrence He just seems to be thinking a little quicker. We got to see it when it's a real game and you're facing real defenses, obviously. But I love hearing that you think the footwork is cleaner and there's just a lot going on.

43:43Now, I will push back on, you know, they haven't been bad all your life. I talked to Dante Fowler last week. Now, the offense wasn't amazing, but Blake Bortles was pretty efficient in 2017. So you had one year that you could enjoy. I very much remember the Tommy Bohannon fullback up the middle touchdown against the Steelers. I was able to brag to all my friends that the Jaguars finally went in and did something really cool. I am I was a super big fan. I'm a super big fan of that team just in the way they played. But I think that is one of the like three seasons. Yeah, they were good. It's been pretty rough.

44:23It's been rough. but this offense is going to I think they're going to be really cool to watch day in day out the screen game has been really fun whether it's been the slip screens to Bigsby or ETN there's been a lot of quick game to Travis Hunter and I think that emphasis on yards after the catch is so much different from what Doug Pearson and Preston Taylor were trying to do last year which is we're not going to make this easy at all we are throwing the ball 50 yards downfield which I think Trevor Lawrence can do, but you want to give your offense easy buttons. And I think this offense, of course, in limited time in the preseason, but the premise has been to give your quarterback easy buttons and options, especially if the first read isn't open.

45:09And I think that's why Trevor Lawrence has looked so much crisper, so much cleaner, is because he has those easy yak buttons to press. And they're in the AFC South. I think it matters because I think the Colts and the Titans have a chance to be two of the worst teams in the AFC. I think they have a chance. And I think that matters. You get four games against them in general. The schedule is forgiving. The Texans are dangerous. You know, I don't think they're the Ravens or the Chiefs or the Bills going into this season. They're dangerous, but I think that's an advantage. And yeah, I think they're just going to make more sense in general.

45:47I'm going to go with the Lions. And again, I'm picking a lot of the better teams in the league from a year ago because I actually don't think we've talked about them enough. I mean, they were averaging 33 points a game last season. It's just absolutely preposterous. And you've got eight starters back, or eight starters rather, that are from these recent Lions draft classes like this regime. That's amazing. And the three that aren't are Jared Goff, who you obviously feel very good about in terms of how he fits in this scheme and with the talent around him. He's not a top five quarterback. And there have been moments, including in that Washington game a year ago, where he made some big mistakes.

46:33And that worries you. But the fact that you have this combination, I mentioned the eight starters. And I'm counting Isaac DeSla as a starter already, as like a third receiver. I that that's my projection for like week 15. Cause otherwise you're counting Tim Patrick as a starter. And I think Isaac to slot in the end, we'll have a bigger role. The only older guys on this entire roster are the offensive lineman, Graham Glasgow and Taylor Decker on the offense. And I just think people are like, if, if the window's closing or, you know, this, or have they missed their opportunity? They are the envy of every team in the league.

47:08If you could ask for one thing, it would be to have continuity and youth and talent all at the exact same time. With the way that the collective bargaining agreement is set up, JP, it's almost impossible to do that and keep it for long. And the Lions have it right now. I think they are ready to show that it's not all about Ben Johnson. Dan Campbell is definitely striking that drum beat throughout the preseason. that he is ready. It's a prove-it season for Dan Campbell. And there's really every reason to believe because of that youth and their continuity that they can do it again this year. I actually think Dan Campbell doesn't get enough credit for what he's done, especially with that offense.

47:56I think he had more of a say in the operations of that offense than people gave him credit for. And that's because, you know, you don't associate Dan Campbell with being offensive mastermind. But when you think about what the offense wanted to be and what the offense wants to do, I think Dan Campbell has to take get some credit there outside of Ben Johnson. But when you look at what this offense is and what they are from a roster and talent acquisition standpoint this year, like you said, it's sort of setting up to be a Brad Holmes flex year. Like this is why this is why I get paid the way I do.

48:30This is why everybody thinks I am one of the best GMs in the league because of the way that he can draft and the way the Lions draft and develop to get guys in the starting spots. I think Christian Mahogany played well in his spare time, and now he's going to be a starter. Tate Ratlidge moving over to guard is going to be really, I thought they tried him at center, which I was like, that's weird. And then they're like, nevermind, we'll move him back to guard where he naturally played at Georgia. so I'm really intrigued by how they can sort of mitigate having two first-year starters along the offensive line and I think that goes back to Jared Goff I think Jared Goff being the guy now where he has had a complete and total mastery of this offense to where I think he's going to be the one setting the protections making the checks and getting everything aligned up there whereas I think he and Frank Ragnow sort of shared that with Ragnow gone I think that's mostly going to be on Jared Goff's shoulders but this offense is still incredibly talented and incredible and has the ability to put up so many points on so many teams they are going to be dynamic you mentioned Isaac Tazla I you know I was initially like oh that's weird they draft him in a third round but if you're big tall and fast and don't drop anything that's gonna lead you to some success in the NFL it you don't have to be a superstar but if you if you're big tall fast and can catch you're gonna play and I think Tazal is gonna play a lot you saw the box out touchdown against the Dolphins I think that's gonna be his sort of area and where he wins this year but this Lions team is still going to be really good.

50:13Yeah. The, the overall like idea of like the draft picks that I brought up is just, just think how many guys could be peaking. Now Isaac slot, he's a rookie. He's not going to be peaking. Jamison Williams ready to do that thing. Like he has steadily gotten better and better. I'm on Ross St. Brown, like squarely at the top of his prime. Panay Sewell squarely at the top of his prime. Jameer Gibbs. I think the running back timeline is different to me. He's hitting the top of his prime. He could be an offensive player of the year type of candidate. Sam Laporta entering year three. It's guys that are getting better, ideally, all at the same time.

50:49So I'm really excited to watch them and we'll see. You don't need to evolve it that much, but I think they'll be looking to evolve it somewhat. The average depth of target for Goff was just so low last year. The play action is always going to be high. You'll see if he can do a little more on the sidelines. They barely throw to the sidelines last year, but I'm excited. All right. We got to pick up the pace slightly if we, if we want to get through all our teams, maybe we won't, maybe we will give me another offense. So speaking of evolution, I am going with what I call the unction in the NFL. I love the Las Vegas Raiders.

51:24I think that this offense is going to rock. And I think that it's going to rock because they have built through the draft and sort of found this identity of we're going to be really tough to tackle. No matter what happens, you're going to have a really hard time tackling. I think adding Ashton Jante obviously is one of the biggest feathers in the cap in that area, and he's going to affect the passing game, the run game. You've already seen the Raiders try and get him involved in the screen game and underneath. I think the way that they have sort of built the layering in that offense, Dante Thornton becoming the starting third receiver, is huge because he is going to occupy that vertical plane of explosiveness he really didn't do anything else outside of that at tennessee he was asked to run posts and goes and when you like i said when you are big tall and fast that that works in the nfl you can find a role there but i think you're opening up so much that area for a guy like brock bowers who now that is now that he is bald i think we need a new nickname for him i'm going with stone cold brock bowers oh okay We got to go stone cold for Brock Bowers.

52:32I think Jack Besch, when he starts coming along, is going to occupy that intermediate area. Jacoby Myers is also going to be really tough to tackle. But this team has an identity on offense. And you're led by a quarterback in Geno Smith. What's the identity? The identity is yards after the catch, physical, and tough to tackle. I think that's going to be their MO. If you look at sort of what Chip Kelly did at Ohio State this past year, Of course, the collection of talent was drastically different compared to, you know, the Raiders collection of talent compared to the NFL versus Ohio State's compared to the rest of college football.

53:09But their idea was we are going to be physical. We're going to try and beat you up. And then we have guys who are incredibly tough to tackle. so I think having all this collection of talent that's going to really occupy this middle of the field underneath area and we're going to try and make it really hard for you to tackle us on through 60 minutes and then ask your quarterback to make some of those high level deep throws that Geno Smith has shown he can make I think this offense is gonna be like really good and probably gonna have to be because the defense isn't going to be that good right but I'm I'm excited to see what this offense does.

53:45I am too. I've, you know, we've been talking up the Raiders and they're just one of those teams that are fascinating to watch this year. And I love having Chip Kelly back in our lives. I think from a fantasy football perspective, the fact that their defense is going to be so bad in my mind is only going to help this team out. I do fear as a Gino guy, it's going to be a lot of like fourth quarters where they're down by 10 and he's just slinging it and there's going to be a lot of interceptions and there's going to be a lot of big plays. I don't know, though. You're really counting on the scheme to help out this offensive line.

54:21I think on paper, it's a pretty average group in terms of talent and help out at least the perimeter receivers that'll be along with Geno Smith. But you're absolutely right that over the middle of the field, they should be nails. I'm going to go with the Bengals as my next team. And the reason I want to put them as interesting is can they be like the Colts under Peyton Manning a little bit? Maybe even the Bills in the 90s. And why I point out those two teams are like, they kind of just did what they did every year, right? They didn't really evolve, but they were just awesome. You know, the Colts kind of just did what they did.

55:04They were extremely talented. They had the right quarterback leading the way. Same thing with the Bills. they had a very specific way of attacking defenses that, you know, that no one looks like now. Manning is more of a comp to Joe Burrow point and shoot. And I just wonder because is this an offense that is going to change much? Do they need to change to stay at the level they're at? I'm worried about their offensive line in general, but maybe I shouldn't be. Like when you look at what they do from a schematic perspective and kind of how they approach playing football. Do you think they need to be any different?

55:42Or can they just be the same group that they always are and kind of the same type of attack with just Joe Burrow in that shotgun and spread out and making decisions? Because when they try to go under center, JP, it never works out very well. The numbers are terrible. They're as pass happy as any team in the league. And it has worked. So can they be one of those teams that we remember in two decades that is that consistently good every year doing the same thing over and over. So I do think they need a little bit of evolution from their offense and it's not in any way towards the passing game. It is like you said, it is that, I guess you'd call it the siloing of their under center versus shotgun, where if they're under center, they're running it.

56:28If they are in shotgun, they're passing it. I think involving a little bit more gun run is going to help this team. If you're in the shotgun and can run the ball effectively. One, it's really hard to do in the NFL or at any level of football to be in shotguns so exclusively and run the ball well, unless you have a running threat at quarterback or the best offensive line in football. So I'm curious on how they're going to do that. If they can just add a little bit more variety to their run game at a shotgun, it's going to really help them out. But really, as a passing team, you don't really need to do much.

57:04Like you said, there's not much evolution that has to come from this group when you have the most dominant quarterback receiver threat in the NFL right now. I think another thing that's going to really help this team is keeping Amarius Mims healthy, right tackle. I think that he is such a talented, talented player, but he just can't stay healthy. He can never stay on the field. And that's an issue for an offensive line that is already sort of operating by bits and bobs. We're going to try and bring in Dalton Risner for a visit here. We're going to try and put Cody Ford here. We're going to try Kordo Volson there.

57:41Like there's, there's so much of the, we're going to try and just get buy on the offensive line because Joe Burrow is such a good sack avoider and you already have two of the best receivers in the league. But I think they can evolve by just making Joe Burrow's life a little easier. I totally agree. And yet it feels like we're a little bit back in the 2021 season where to me there are the tackle positions better overall, but there are major questions because if Mims misses any time, it is a cliff to the third tackle. They're trying to figure out who that would be. It's probably Cody Ford who had been playing guard.

58:22And, you know, I listened to the local coverage there and they think it's already almost a five alarm fire in terms of the injuries of the depth that they have and the interior of their offensive line. And I saw those Brady comments. You know, it's like he does come off a little bit as an angry old man talking about the quarterback position. And when he was talking about that, he doesn't want to be a quarterback that's, you know, you got to be a quarterback that's hands-on, that you're doing, you're making these changes. You're meeting with the coaches. You're saying what plays that you want. You're yelling at people.

58:59And I was like, who is he talking to? If you want to, and to me, I was like, is he talking? Did he just watch quarterback? And is he talking to Joe Burrow? because Joe Burrow is very different. Joe Burrow is like, I'm not going to be the guy that's going to tell the guys that they would need to do it wrong and the job's hard enough. And I don't think if he was talking to Joe Burrow that that's right to do so. But I do get the feeling that Joe Burrow is a little more hands off. And yet they make sure to build the offense like around his strengths. No one ever talks about like what Zach Taylor does from a schematic perspective.

59:33But I don't get the sense that it's Burrow like dictating everything. I think it's them trying to play to his strengths. And you mentioned the running game. Like, I'm huge on Chase Brown. Spoiler alert, where you've got a fantasy mock draft later this week coming up. I love me some Chase Brown. A lot of that is because of the receiving game. But I'm going to give you some stats before we go to our next offense that is the most interesting of the season. The Bengals versus expected in terms of passes and runs. Led the league in passing versus expected, JP. on second and long in power situations, while ahead, while behind.

1:00:13Like that is everything. Every single thing that there is basically, like while ahead and while behind, you lead the league in passing versus expected. The only stat that I could find, and this is all from the FTN Almanac, that they weren't first was on first downs, they were actually second in terms of passing over expected. So they are as, you know, pass heavy as you can possibly be. Let's do a speed round to wrap it up. I'll give a quick one first. Seahawks. It's not just because of the preseason. It's partly because our producer, Chris Vona, wanted me to give a little love to them. But they've got some talent on the offensive line between Gray Zabel and Charles Cross and Abe Lucas.

1:00:56Look, it's going to be two wide receivers on the field. Clint Kubiak led the league in that last year with the Saints. and it's going to be, you know, Cup and JSN on the field together. Do they fit together? I don't know. Is Ken Walker a scheme fit? I don't quite know. But to me, they're going to be really fascinating whether they can make this offense work around Sam Darnold and whether he can build just career arc-wise off what he did a year ago. The Seahawks are bringing Sexy back. They're bringing the fullback back to the NFL. This is the game that I am here for. Robbie Oots has been one of my favorite rookies to watch because you can tell when he comes into the game.

1:01:32I hope the Seahawks fans really kind of play up to the Robbie Oates name, kind of like the Packers did with John Coon, because I think that'd be incredible. But you can tell that the offensive line really meshes a lot better with this offensive scheme, with this system. The movement skills of Anthony Bradford, Gray Zabel has been really good. I think Jalen Sandell is pushing Oluola Tini for the center spot, and that's because they can move really well on those wide zone runs, and that's really where Sam Darnold is effective. You want to mitigate the amount of times Sam Darnold has to be the, you want to mitigate the amount of times that Darnold has to take the reins of the offense and move the ball by himself.

1:02:14And I think you do that through a successful and efficient run game and everything that I've seen this preseason has been leading up to that point of them becoming a really effective team on the ground. All right, give me your last one. One you got to get in. I have unfortunately fallen for the Jerry Jones propaganda train. I'm with the Dallas Cowboys. I am so fascinated by what they can be. And it's partially because of who they brought in as offensive coordinator. Clayton Adams, the former offensive line coach at Arizona. I am all for offensive line coaches being promoted to offensive coordinator.

1:02:45They are going to do a whole lot more. 12 personnel, 13 gap scheme. That is what Arizona did. But I think that's going to help in Dak Prescott not having to do everything in the offense. I've talked so much about widening the margin for error for your quarterback. And I think Dak's margin for error was so small in that offense because they had no running game. They had no commitment to the run game. They had one receiver. And now you have compliments like a run game that should on the offensive line, the offensive line should be good enough. I know Tyler Guyton is going to miss some time, but when Guyton is back, that run game, that offensive line should be fun.

1:03:24I'm worried about what they're going to do with running back. but the receiving group if George Pickens has his head on straight that is an incredibly complimentary group you're thinking of when you think of George Pickens fit in this offense you're thinking of the best years of Michael Gallup where you throw the ball to him on the sideline every 50-50 ball becomes 70-30 you know I think that's something that the offense has really missed but I'm excited to see what this offense does and I'm intrigued to see what they do in 2025. Yeah, one of the teams in week one that I'm most curious because I don't, what is the Clayton Adams effect going to be?

1:03:59Is it going to be more Schottenheimer? What is a Brian Schottenheimer offense in 2025? I don't really know and that's why I think they totally fit on this list and who knows maybe one of those Jaguars running backs Bigsby or ETN, maybe they shake loose before the beginning of the season and the Cowboys would be a logical landing spot for them. JP, you did a fantastic job. Appreciate you and check out JP's work at SB Nation. We'll get you on again soon. Of course. We will be back in the studio next for QB Island, but that's not the next show that you're going to hear in the feed. 40s and Free Agents with me and Daniel Jeremiah talking about all the pickups in the offseason.

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