Rich Eisen#38 of 87 NFL pundits · Oct 31, 2025

Rich Eisen previewed their top five remaining Week 9 games, calling the Lions the best team in football, suggesting the Seahawks could go to 6-2 by beating Washington, and urging Houston to beat Denver.

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1 of 1calls landed1 hit · 1 too vague to check

100Average accuracyout of 100, across 1 call

0A naive guessthe same calls, no knowledge

1 of 2Settlednone still waiting · 1 too vague to check

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What Rich Eisen said

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Seahawks could go six and two, folks, and this would be a big conference win for them again.

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Where it was said: The Rich Eisen Show (podcast)
The episode: Hour 3: Shaquille O’Neal, Oscar-Winner Morgan Freeman, plus NFL Week 9’s Top 5 Games
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SaidOct 31, 2025
GradedAug 13, 2026

1Seattle Seahawks to beat Washington Commanders“Seahawks could go six and two, folks, and this would be a big conference win for them again.”
2Lions to finish top 1 at his position, by an unstated measure“the team that he's going up against is, in my estimation, the best in football coming off a buy, getting healthier, and it's the Lions.”

Box score

HitCloseMissWaiting

Call	Kind	What happened	Score	Naive	Skill
Seattle Seahawks to beat Washington Commanders¹	Game Outcome Picks	—	100	0	+156
Lions to finish top 1 at his position, by an unstated measure²	Positional Finishes	—	—	—	—
2 calls · 1 hit · 1 too vague to check			100	0

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How each call scored

a naive guessbetter than naive

2 claims — 1 game outcome pick and 1 positional finish — the one we can check graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing call.

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

The other one was too vague to check, so it is not graded.

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.

1Game Outcome Picks Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Seahawks to beat Washington Commanders
VerdictHit
100Hit · naive 0
100this call0a naive guess100better than naive1.56difficulty+156skill
Closing line (Nov 2): Seahawks by 2.5 · favorite pick, Seahawks 57%.
How this was scored
won:
SEA
score:
38-14
skill:
156
they picked:
SEA
season:
2025
accuracy:
100
baseline:
0
the naive pick:
WAS
difficulty:
1.56
weeks in the season:
18
weeks left when called:
10
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2Positional Finishes
Lions to finish top 1 at his position, by an unstated measure
VerdictToo vague to check
Too vague to check: we could not tell what would count as right, so it stays on the record without a score.
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