Which teams are legitimately in the Super Bowl window for 2025?

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Which teams are legitimately in the Super Bowl window for 2025?​

Thursday’s #PFTPM including a simple question: “What are your thoughts on a potential Bills-Rams Super Bowl?”

My thoughts are it could happen, because both teams are firmly in the Super Bowl window.

In any given year, not many teams truly are. And while teams not apparently in the window can, in theory, win their way in, the salary-cap system has matured to the point where some teams have cracked the code — and some teams can’t crack their way out of a paper bag.

It also helps to have drafted and developed a franchise quarterback.

In most years, roughly 10 teams are in the window, roughly 10 teams aren’t, and the remaining 12 could break either way. This year, the AFC’s true short-list contenders are the Chiefs, Bills, Ravens, Bengals, and Texans. The Broncos and Chargers could force their way into the conversation.

In the NFC, it’s the Eagles, Lions, Rams, 49ers, and Commodes. Maybe the Buccaneers. Maybe the Vikings.

Again, things can and will change. That’s why they play the games, as someone once said. All the time.

For those who like a little variety, it would be nice for someone other than the Chiefs to get a turn in the Super Bowl. And for someone other than the Eagles, 49ers, or Rams to emerge from the NFC.

Since 2017, it’s been the Eagles three times, the 49ers twice, the Rams twice, and the Bucs once. For the AFC, it’s been only the Patriots, Chiefs, and Bengals.

That’s it. Over eight seasons, seven total franchises have taken the 16 total Super Bowl berths.

Free agency, the salary cap, and a draft process that rewards failure should be enough to mix things up. But the reality is that good teams stay good, and bad teams stay bad.
 

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My list would be Rams, Eagles, and Lions and; Bills, Chiefs, Ravens. Outside chance? Washington, Green Bay and Tampa; Texans, Chargers and Broncos.