Andrew WhitworthDec 3, 2025
Whitworth named the Green Bay Packers as the best team in the NFC North and the one they expect to come out of that division, while suggesting the Bears — not the Eagles — may be the team poised to make a run.
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What Andrew Whitworth said
our reading, beside the words we read it fromAnd right now, I think, to me, it's probably gonna be the Green Bay Packers.
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- Hour 2: NFL Power Rankings, Chief-Cowboys Ratings Bonanza, plus TNF’s Andrew Whitworth
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- SaidDec 3, 2025
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- 1Green Bay Packers to win the division“The best team in the NFC North is Yeah... I think to me right now, I'm gonna sit here and say, I think it's the Green Bay Packers... I think it's gonna be fun to say who who fun to see who kinda rises to the crop in in this division. And right now, I think, to me, it's probably gonna be the Green Bay Packers.”
- 2Chicago Bears to beat expectations“we might have been waiting on the wrong team to take off. Maybe it's the Chicago bear bears that, we need to put in that conversation of a team that's ready to make a run.”
Box score
HitCloseMissWaiting| Verdict | Call | Kind | What happened | Score | Naive | Skill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Bay Packers to win the division1 | Division Winners | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Chicago Bears to beat expectations2 | Surprise Team Calls | — | — | — | — | |
| 2 calls · 1 miss · 1 waiting | 0 | 0 | ||||
How each call scored
a naive guessbetter than naive2 checkable claims — 1 division winner and 1 surprise team call — each graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing call.
It names 2 players and teams, each linked to their own record.
1 of 2 have settled so far, averaging 0 out of 100, against 0 for a naive guess at the same calls.
Each call is scored 0 to 100 against what happened, on its own, by the published methodology. The naive guess is what knowing nothing would have scored on the same calls; the gap, weighted by how hard the call was, is the skill.
1Division WinnersGreen Bay Packers
Green Bay Packers to win the division
VerdictMiss0Miss · naive 00this call−0a naive guess=0better than naive×1.28difficulty=0skillThink this is wrong?How this was scored
- skill:
- 0
- method:
- division winners read off the bracket: the bye teams and the wild-card hosts
- they picked:
- GB
- season:
- 2025
- accuracy:
- 0
- baseline:
- 0
- the naive pick:
- DET
- difficulty:
- 1.28
- the naive guess:
- last season's winner of the same division
- weeks in the season:
- 18
- weeks left when called:
- 5
- won the division:
- no
2Surprise Team CallsChicago Bears
Chicago Bears to beat expectations
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
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