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OPINION: Best and worst of the 2025 NFL schedule reveals

Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh celebrates on the sideline (2025)
Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh celebrates on the sideline (2025)Harry How/Getty Images/AFP
Another year brings us another 32 schedule reveals for the upcoming 2025 NFL season and this time we're giving the fans ones we think were the best and the worst.

We'll save you guys the time from having to painfully watch all 32 teams' schedule reveal videos. Instead, we narrowed everything down to the five best reveals (with two honourable mentions) and the five worst. 

So let's start off with the ones that make us all wish we could've had our time back, with No. 1 being the worst of the worst (and best of the best).

Worst Schedule Reveals

5. Arizona Cardinals 

No hate to  Mack Wilson Sr., this just felt like it was more of a music video than an actual schedule reveal. 

The production team did absolutely nothing to help the fans understand the order of the schedule whatsoever until the very end of the song, so it just felt entirely sloppy. 

But if they use it as a hype song for their season then more power to them. It wasn't the worst, but it sure isn't anywhere near the best.

4. Philadelphia Eagles

The Eagles' production team must've still been feeling that Super Bowl hangover even three months later.

It's the Lombradi Trophy with the famous "Thus Spake Zarathustra" soundtrack and they made the schedule impossible to read at the end. This was so bland that they should have just posted a graphic with the schedule and the trophy next to it. 

Congrats on the Super Bowl win, though. Everyone else is focused on the new season already.

3. Miami Dolphins

Well, at least they showed the schedule in order and well enough for all of us to see. But none of what was shown beforehand was in any way a "spectacle" or "creative."

Graphics almost look like AI-generated and there's absolutely no real story behind this whatsoever besides the same adversity shpeel that every team in every sport always talks about - you're in the AFC East and have the 21st hardest schedule. 

2. Cincinnati Bengals

They had the schedule roll like post-movie credits at the very beginning of the video. So what's the point of us watching the rest? I can answer that - nothing.

There's nothing else to watch. They set up a camera in one spot and just have players react terribly to the schedule as they come and go. Sorry, guys but that was about as lazy as it gets. 

No cool graphics. No real story to it all. Nothing. 

1. Jacksonville Jaguars

Well, it looks like the Jaguars are already 0-2 before the season even starts.

On top of them giving themselves credit for an AI-generated graphics thread on X with their 2025 opponents, they posted a "schedule reveal" of Ashton Hall replicating his ridiculous viral video to finally give the fans the schedule in the end. 

I get it - Hall used to play for the Jaguars. But re-creating possibly the dumbest viral video in recent years that everyone made fun of just for a schedule reveal then just post a bunch of AI-generated images? Laziness at its finest. Do better in 2026. 

Best Schedule Reveals

H2. Buffalo Bills (honourable mention No. 2)

The Bills went the opposite route of the Jaguars by making fun of generative AI (as everyone should) with a nice twist - having AIlen Iverson (AI) himself be part of the schedule reveal. The only reason it didn't make the top five is because we can barely even see the schedule on the paper, only to just reveal it in the end anyway - almost perfect execution from a great socials and production team.

H1. Minnesota Vikings (honourable mention No. 1)

Tattooing die-hard Vikings fans with the 2025 schedule was brilliant. The filming was great and the reactions from everyone are genuine. To make it even better, the artwork pokes fun at the other teams, too, as the best schedule reveals usually do. 

5. Tennessee Titans

It's so hard to narrow down these remaining five in order, but the Titans more than deserve to be here. The comedy is executed perfectly with each team having their own respective "side effects."

And, even better, everything is in order and easy to follow. The acting is just as corny as the medical commercials themselves and it stood out among the other 31 teams - in short, you could tell time was spent making it. 

The video is just the length of a medicine commercial and it doesn't leave you waiting for the reveal. 

4. Seattle Seahawks

The team announcements aren't in the schedule's order but this gets a pass because of the creativity behind it. Bringing back an old action figure, commercial-style reveal was as comical as it was genius. 

The Cardinal (Kyle Murray) playing video games. Saying the 49ers were "spewing 90s nostalgia." "The LA Lambs." The digs at their division rivals were on point. 

Nobody did anything like it and the entire video was so engaging that Seahawks fans now want them to produce and sell the action figures - that's how you do a schedule reveal. 

3. New Orleans Saints

Recreating a famous Key & Peele skit is a bold move but the Saints executed it perfectly. Involving actual Saints media members was hilarious because, let's be honest, who doesn't think these thoughts when hearing the media ask the same old questions over and over?

The teams mentioned weren't in order of the schedule but this also gets a pass because of how hilarious it is. No other team did anything like it. 

It didn't require a ton of effort like the others in the top five, but it was a long reveal that was engaging. 

2. San Francisco 49ers

The schedule is in order for the most part. It's wonderfully detailed. A nod to a classic game. And we can just tell that a lot of time and effort was put it into the length and creativity of it. 

Comedy options with each town were great, though I do wish the 49ers went a little more savage with their opportunities. 

But we possibly got a new uniform on the way with its ending as well, so they gave their own schedule reveal a cliffhanger. People complain about it being too slow but that's just attention spans nowadays, unfortunately. 

1. Los Angeles Chargers

To nobody's surprise, the Chargers are back on top as always. They are the cream of the crop when it comes to schedule reveals and they showed why yet again this year with an insanely detailed Minecraft schedule reveal that had easter egg after easter egg. 

No team was safe from the savagery - even the Minnesota Wild professional (NHL). 

It isn't as cool as their anime schedule reveal videos of the past, but this undoubtedly took forever to accomplish but good lord was it worth the wait. The video has the most likes (by far) of any other schedule reveal and for good reason. 

The Indianapolis Colts would've made the list had they not rescinded their our Minecraft schedule reveal for their dig at Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill.

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