Like an NFL offseason, this one is setting up to be active, and there are going to be some teams who end up making a huge mistake. Even the best teams in the NFL slip up from time to time. Heck, the Philadelphia Eagles signed Bryce Huff last offseasn, and he was a non-factor for them in 2024.
That is just one example. The teams across the league who are more dysfunctional tend to make mistakes quite frequently. Most of the mistakes we see in the NFL today are failed trades and players being overpaid.
The 2025 NFL Offseason truly gets kicked off with the start of free agency in about two weeks. Could these three teams be on pace to make a massive take in the coming offseason?
3 teams guaranteed to make a huge mistake in the 2025 NFL Offseason
New Orleans Saints
The New Orleans Saints hired Kellen Moore to be their new head coach. They were the last team to fill a head coaching vacancy. The main issue with the Saints over the last few seasons has been their disastrous management of the salary cap. It does seem like former head coach Sean Payton was doing most of the heavy-lifting, as GM Mickey Loomis seems lost.
The Saints are again in 'cap hell' and need to again wheel and deal to get under the cap. It just does not feel like Loomis is going to blow this thing up and start fresh - but that is exactly what he should do. The team also seems poised to bring Derek Carr back in 2025.
Already, they have made one massive mistake if the veteran Carr does return as the QB1 in the 2025 NFL Season. There really isn't much to like at all with the Saints - this is a bad team and one of the more poorly-run clubs in the entire NFL.
It's been tough-sledding for the Saints in recent years.
New York Giants
If 'mistake' was a football team, it would be the New York Giants. The team should absolutely not be the position they find themselves in right now, but GM Joe Schoen has made a series of blunders in recent years, so why should be believe that he all of a sudden figures out how to be a competent GM?
Well, if the Giants do not end up being able to trade for Matthew Stafford, they'll likely have to force themselves to take one of Cam Ward or Shedeur Sanders in the 2025 NFL Draft. Both QBs likely would have been the seventh and eighth QBs taken in the 2024 NFL Draft.
The 2024 NFL Draft saw six QBs taken in the first 12 picks, and the Giants somehow managed to pass up on three of them. Joe Schoen is in way over his head, and the team is just in an awful spot right now. I would expect them to be as likely a team as any to make a huge mistake in the 2025 NFL Offseason.
Dallas Cowboys
When haven't the Dallas Cowboys made a huge mistake? They toyed around with the contracts of Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb and ended up paying more for the players than they should have. Dallas also let Mike McCarthy walk out the door and replaced him with an inferior coach in Brian Schottenheimer.
It's just not been a good time in recent years for the Cowboys. Right now, this team should try to rebuild a bit, and if you ask me, the one thing they need to try and do this offseason is actually trade Micah Parsons. They could get multiple first-round picks for Parsons, and that type of return could be franchise-altering.
It does feel like Jerry Jones is running this team like he's playing Madden, and it may somehow get worse before it gets better. Expect the Cowboys to make a mistake this offseason.