The Seahawks won Super Bowl LX less than 24 hours ago and some have already turned their attention to Super Bowl LXI.
Sportsbooks have set the odds for who will be raising the Lombardi Trophy in SoFi Stadium on February 14, 2027. The Seahawks are at the top of the list, but they aren’t the only team on that rung.
They aren’t even the only NFC West team. The Rams join the Seahawks at +950 at DraftKings at the moment.
The Bills have the top odds of any AFC team with the Eagles, Patriots, and Ravens tied for the fourth spot. The Packers, Lions, Chargers, and Chiefs round out the top 10.
At the other end of the spectrum, the Cardinals and Dolphins are both at +25000.
Packers president Ed Policy made a big decision to kick off the team’s offseason when he reached agreement with head coach Matt LaFleur on a contract extension.
LaFleur was set to go into the final year of his contract and there was some question about whether he’d be back after the team blew a 21-3 halftime lead in their playoff loss to the Packers. The nature of that loss helped fuel the doubts about LaFleur’s future in Green Bay, but Policy explained in a column for the team’s website that he put more value in LaFleur’s long-term record than on the immediate reaction to the loss.
“Football is an emotional game, and I understand the high emotions that go into a playoff game against our longest-held rival,” Policy said. “However, in my seat, you must rise above emotions and analyze objectively an entire body of work to make a long-term decision that puts the team in the best position to compete for Super Bowls year in and year out. That’s the process I went through following our season. Candidly, over the years I’ve grown to appreciate ownership groups that built dynasties through level-headed steadfast continuity in lieu of emotional chaos.”
LaFleur is 76-40-1 over seven seasons in Green Bay and that record supports Policy’s decision to take the long view with the coach. A deep playoff run in 2026 would still be a good way to ensure the questions aren’t back on the table next January.
The Eagles are continuing to reshape their offensive coaching staff.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that they will hire Ryan Mahaffey as their run game coordinator and tight ends coach. Mahaffey and new Eagles offensive coordinator Sean Mannion worked together in Green Bay for the last two seasons.
Jeff Stoutland was the team’s run game coordinator in addition to serving as their offensive line coach, but he announced on Wednesday that he will be leaving the team after 13 seasons. Jason Michael was the tight ends coach on Nick Sirianni’s staff for the last five seasons.
Mahaffey spent the last five seasons on the Packers’ staff. He was a quality control coach and assistant offensive line coach before coaching the team’s wide receivers the last two years.
The Packers’ season ended when they blew a 21-3 lead in the second half of a playoff loss to the Bears and that collapse mirrored the way they finished out the regular season.
After starting the year 9-3-1, the Packers lost their final four games to head into the playoffs as the No. 7 seed. During a press conference on Wednesday, General Manager Brian Gutekunst said he “thought we had an opportunity to kind of round into form there in the second half of the season” and that addressing the failure to do so after stronger finishes earlier in head coach Matt LaFleur’s run in Green Bay.
“In Matt’s first five years, we were 25-8 in December and January,” Gutekunst said, via the team’s website. “I think we’re 3-9 the last two years, so we’re looking at that from a lot of different angles, to make sure that we’re playing our best football in December and January. We’ve got to win the games that matter the most. That was a strength of ours prior to these last couple of years, was how we finished. We were playing our best football at the end of the season. We haven’t done that the last two years.”
The Packers were missing players like Micah Parsons, Tucker Kraft and Devonte Wyatt at the end of the year, but Gutekunst rejected that explanation for the downturn. He said the team had “everything we needed to win those football games,” so the focus is going to be on other factors for the disappointing finish.
If the Cowboys had to trade Micah Parsons, CeeDee Lamb wishes it wouldn’t have taken so long.
Lamb visited PFT Live today on Radio Row at Super Bowl LX and talked about losing Parsons as a teammate and how difficult it was to see Parsons’ long negotiations with the Cowboys overshadow the team’s preparation for the 2025 season.
“As his teammate and as his brother I wish I would have known what the situation would have been and we wouldn’t have dragged it out,” Lamb said.
As Parsons showed up to training camp but generally declined to participate until he got a new contract, Lamb kept thinking a deal would get done for Parsons to stay with the Cowboys long-term. It didn’t.
“Let’s just prepare to have him, as we go through our preparation and seeing him out there in his pads, we’re like, ‘Any day now.’ And that day never came for us,” Lamb said.
Instead, it happened for the Packers, who traded two first-round draft picks and Kenny Clark to the Cowboys for Parsons. And only after a long process that was tough for Parsons’ teammates in Dallas to endure.
