Charles McDonaldJun 21, 2025
McDonald's Yahoo Sports ranking of the top 10 NFL quarterbacks entering the 2025 season, as recounted on the show, had Mahomes first and left off Jalen Hurts, Jayden Daniels and Brock Purdy.
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What Charles McDonald said
Charles McDonald's top ten quarterbacks entering the twenty twenty five season in twenty to Yahoo's Sport.
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- The Herd with Colin Cowherd (podcast)
- The episode
- Covino & Rich - Picking Apart a Top 10 QB List
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a naive guessbetter than naiveOne checkable claim, graded on its own against what actually happened.
The call scored 61.2 out of 100, against 50 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.
“So in at number one, you really can't debate it. Patrick Mahomes... Number two, Lamar Jackson... he's right there at number three... Borrow number four... Well Herbert is at number five?... Number six Matt Stafford... Number seven Dak Prescott... Gino Smith. Number eight... Love number nine Ireen Bay Packers... CJ. Stroud, great young quarterback in at number ten.”
VerdictClose61.21Close · naive 5061.21this call−50a naive guess=11.21better than naive×2difficulty=+22.42skillThink this is wrong?How this was scored
- naive:
- a coin-flip ordering scores 50
- skill:
- 22.42
- placed:
- 10
- season:
- 2025
- players:
- 10
- accuracy:
- 61.21
- baseline:
- 50
- by position:
- QB 10: 61.21
- difficulty:
- 2
- weeks in the season:
- 18
- could not place:
- 0
- weeks left when called:
- 18
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