Manti Te'o#65 of 87 NFL pundits · Sep 1, 2025
Te'o picks Dan Campbell of the Detroit Lions as 2025 Coach of the Year, and predicts Lamar Jackson will be named the No. 1 player on the NFL Top 100.
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our reading, beside the words we read it frombecause he's going to be your twenty twenty five Coach of the Year.
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- SaidSep 1, 2025
- GradedAug 5, 2026
- 1Dan Cambll to win Coach of the Year“So my head Coach of the Year, Dan Cambll Go ahead, Dan Campbell, Detroit Lions.”
- 2Top Player Lists“number one Lamar Jackson will be the number one player in the top one hundred”
Box score
HitCloseMissWaiting| Verdict | Call | Kind | What happened | Score | Naive | Skill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Cambll to win Coach of the Year1 | Coach Award Picks | Mike Vrabel won | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| “number one Lamar Jackson will be the number one player in the…”2 | Top Player Lists | — | — | — | — | |
| 2 calls · 1 miss · 1 waiting | 0 | 0 | ||||
How each call scored
a naive guessbetter than naive2 checkable claims — 1 coach award pick and 1 top player list — each graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing call.
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.
Dan Cambll to win Coach of the Year
What happenedMike Vrabel woncalled Dan Campbell0Miss · naive 00this call−0a naive guess=0better than naive×2difficulty=0skillThink this is wrong?How this was scored
- award:
- coach_of_the_year
- coach:
- Dan Campbell
- naive:
- the naive pick was Kevin O'Connell, who won it the year before
- skill:
- 0
- season:
- 2025
- who won:
- Mike Vrabel
- correct:
- no
- accuracy:
- 0
- baseline:
- 0
- difficulty:
- 2
- weeks in the season:
- 18
- weeks left when called:
- 18
“number one Lamar Jackson will be the number one player in the top one hundred”
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
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