Sports desk
NFL posts — page 9
Aug 14 – Aug 29, 2026
Our NFL writing from the graded record: a Punditry Check on one club a day, a digest of every game the room called, and the Pundit of the Week.
Pundit of the Week · Aug 17–Aug 23 ·
Jamie Erdahl's 87.46 Week, Built on Jaguars and Broncos
Pundit of the Week for 2026-W34: Jamie Erdahl posts an 87.46 MissedTakes Score on 23 takes; Bucky Brooks wins accuracy at 81.05 on seven.
MissedTakes Daily ·
Trade Calls Grade Out Below Baseline, Five Categories Clear at Once, and Nobody Saw 14 Wins in New England
1,030 takes graded in seven days. Trade and signing calls finished below the naive baseline, and the win-total field missed all three 14-win teams.
MissedTakes Daily ·
Rich Eisen's Chiefs Arc and More
A 2,123-take grading week hit the season-forecast categories hardest: division winners at 27.4 accuracy, and the field's Chiefs win total off by 6.3.
Fantasy preview ·
New Orleans Saints Fantasy Preview 2026: 21 Sleeper Calls on Tyler Shough, and Almost Nothing Graded to Back Them
Every 2026 fantasy take on the Saints, graded: Shough's 21 sleeper calls, the Etienne fade, Olave splits — and how thin the track record behind them is.
Fantasy preview ·
Indianapolis Colts Fantasy Preview 2026: 14 pundits are on Josh Downs, and the last graded Downs sleeper call scored a zero
Colts 2026 fantasy punditry graded: Josh Downs mania, the Pierce split, Tyler Warren's clean record, and only seven graded Colts fantasy calls to judge it by.
Pundit of the Week · Aug 10–Aug 16 ·
David Harrison's 52.02 Week, Built Almost Entirely on the 2026 Draft
Pundit of the Week for 2026-W33: David Harrison at 52.02 MissedTakes Score, Gregg Rosenthal at 93.1 accuracy on eight calls. Plus 4,044 graded takes.
MissedTakes Daily ·
Mock Drafts Eat the Week, Chris Brockman Lands at Both Ends, and the Chiefs Consensus Misses by Six
2,574 takes graded in seven days, 1,610 of them mock-draft picks. Plus, the Chiefs win-total wipeout and a take that managed to score 100 aaaand 0.
Essay ·
The 2026 Mock Draft Cycle, Graded: The Field Nailed the Top, Missed the Fallers, and Never Got Sharper
We graded 1,413 mock-draft calls on the 2026 NFL draft: who was accurate, who wasn't, and why publishing later barely helped.
Essay ·
Four Players the Talk Shows Over-Covered, and What It Cost Them
Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Baker Mayfield and Jonathan Taylor drew 46 graded calls last season and returned 25.4 accuracy. Who paid for it, and how much.
MissedTakes Daily ·
MVP Consensus *Was* Stafford and a Jets Take Graded Both Ways
2,386 takes graded in seven days: the MVP consensus hit on Matthew Stafford, and win-total misses run deep.