Week 1 Overview - Let's get it going

It's time for football

Welcome to Week 1. It's time for football.

A few hours from now, the 2025 NFL season will officially be off and running. The Cowboys (minus Micah Parsons...whatever happened to him, anyway?) will be facing off with the Eagles, and all will be right with the world.

I find the first quarter or so of the NFL season one of the most interesting and challenging portions of the season. It's interesting because we get to have all of our offseason assumptions about literally every team either challenged or confirmed, and it's challenging because of how many of those assumptions will be wrong. Worst of all, some assumptions will initially appear to be wrong and turn out to be right, or vice versa. And there's no way to know which is which for weeks or even months.

I've spoken before about how I find this year's Packers' team uniquely hard to get my arms around, and the Micah Parsons trade actually didn't clear much up for me. It did on the expectations front — the defense should be better, and the bar for the team's overall performance has gone up significantly. We are justifiably in Super Bowl or bust territory. That's just how that equation works out.

But I feel like this year, more than most, we know a lot about the individual pieces on the team, but we don't know how they're all going to fit together. Part of that is because we were robbed of the opportunity to really see anything of Jrodan Love in the preseason, but another, probably more significant part, is because we're counting on a lot of internal growth from this year's team.