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Rich Eisen#38 of 87 NFL pundits · Sep 12, 2025

Eisen suggests the Packers look like the best team in football and are poised to be a Super Bowl-caliber team this season, envisioning Micah Parsons playing in an NFC Championship Game and Super Bowl with Green Bay, while Dallas is not so poised.

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0Miss · out of 100

NE and SEA wonWhat happenedpicked GB

0A naive guessthe same call, no knowledge

0This callout of 100

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What Rich Eisen said

Green Bay looks to be the one poised to be super this year, Dallas not.

Our reading: Green Bay Packers to reach the Super Bowl

Where it was said: The Rich Eisen Show (podcast)
The episode: Hour 3: NFL Week 2’s Top 5 Games, plus Actor Michael Chiklis In-Studio
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SaidSep 12, 2025
GradedAug 17, 2026

How the call scored

a naive guessbetter than naive

One checkable claim, graded on its own against what actually happened.

The call scored 0 out of 100, against 0 for a naive guess at the same calls.

The 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 call; the gap, weighted by how hard the call was, is the skill.

Conference Champions Green Bay Packers
Green Bay Packers to reach the Super Bowl
What happenedNE and SEA wonpicked GB
0Miss · naive 0
0this call0a naive guess0better than naive1.94difficulty0skill
How this was scored
skill:
0
they picked:
GB
season:
2025
accuracy:
0
baseline:
0
champions:
NE, SEA
difficulty:
1.94
the naive guess:
last season's conference champions
weeks in the season:
18
weeks left when called:
17
reached the Super Bowl:
no
lost the conference final:
no
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