Mike Florio#15 of 87 NFL pundits · Oct 16, 2026
Florio predicted the Chargers would fire someone if they fell to 0-6, said Travis Kelce will be in a broadcast booth next year and would be Joe Buck's Monday Night Football partner, declared Tony Romo has called their last NFL game, forecast the Rams winning five straight to reach 7-3, predicted the Vikings win the NFC North and lose the NFC Championship, and said Brian Flores will not get a head coaching job.
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our reading, beside the words we read it fromThey'll win they'll win the NFC North. They'll be the number one seed in the NFC. They'll win in the divisional round, and then there'll be some screwy ass thing that happens that will cause them to lose in the NFC championship.
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- 1Minnesota Vikings to win the division“They'll win they'll win the NFC North. They'll be the number one seed in the NFC.”
- 2Travis Kelce to move — “will be in a broadcast booth next year calling Monday Night Football with Joe Buck”“Who is calling Monday night football with Joe Buck next year? ... Travis Kelce. ... I think he's gonna be in a booth somewhere next year.”
- 3Minnesota Vikings to take the top seed“They'll be the number one seed in the NFC. They'll win in the divisional round”
- 4Season Win Totals“I think they got five winnable games coming up, and they'll be seven and three going into their bye week”
Box score
HitCloseMissWaiting| Verdict | Call | Kind | What happened | Score | Naive | Skill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Vikings to win the division1 | Division Winners | — | — | — | — | |
| Travis Kelce to move — “will be in a broadcast booth next year calling Monday Night Football with Joe Buck”2 | Trade and Signing Calls | — | — | — | — | |
| Minnesota Vikings to take the top seed3 | Seeding, Byes and Home Field | — | — | — | — | |
| “I think they got five winnable games coming up, and they'll be…”4 | Season Win Totals | — | — | — | — | |
| 4 calls · 3 waiting · 1 too vague to check | — | — | ||||
How each call scored
4 claims — 1 division winner, 1 season win total, 1 seeding, byes and home field and 1 trade and signing call — the 3 we can check each graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing call.
It names 3 players and teams, each linked to their own record.
None of the 3 calls we can check have settled yet — they grade once their results are in.
The other one was too vague to check, so it is not graded.
Of the 1 unsettled call enough other pundits have weighed in on, this one lands below the rest of the room.
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 WinnersMinnesota Vikings
Minnesota Vikings to win the division
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
2Trade and Signing CallsTravis Kelce
Travis Kelce to move — “will be in a broadcast booth next year calling Monday Night Football with Joe Buck”
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
3Seeding, Byes and Home FieldMinnesota Vikings
Minnesota Vikings to take the top seed
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
4Season Win TotalsLos Angeles Rams
“I think they got five winnable games coming up, and they'll be seven and three going into their bye week”
VerdictToo vague to checkToo vague to check: we could not tell what would count as right, so it stays on the record without a score.
Who this take is about
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