Eagles 24, Titans 20: Every Pundit Picked Philly, None Saw It This Close
The verdict on the field
We tracked 34 graded calls settled by Philadelphia's 24-20 win at Tennessee in Week 2, and every single one of them picked the Eagles. Not a lean, not a hedge — 34 for 34. That includes 26 flat winner picks and eight separate score predictions, and not one of them backed the Titans.
That unanimity matters more than it sounds. Tennessee was the home team, and the site's naive baseline — pick the home side — would have taken the Titans here. So every pundit who called Philadelphia wasn't just right, they were right against the free pick. A road-team call that lands is worth more than one more voice piling onto the favorite, and this week the entire field made that call correctly at once.
A unanimous field getting the winner right isn't much of a story by itself. The real story is what happened once anyone tried to guess how big the win would be.
The calls worth naming
John Middlekauff made his pick as vivid as anyone: "This is a game where the Eagles should win by like 20 points and just smother them. And definitely defensively with Fangio, this could get really, really ugly for Cam Ward." He said it twice, in two separate previews, and the Eagles did win — but by four, not twenty.
Cory Nidoh framed it as history in the making, expecting the Eagles to finally beat Tennessee in Nashville after dropping their first three meetings there — and they did. Dave Uram had called this as part of a two-game stretch back on September 12, predicting Philadelphia would be 2-0 by beating Washington and Tennessee; that call was flagged among the site's best of the week, for good reason — an early, specific, correct read on a game other pundits hadn't previewed yet.
On the score, the closest call belonged to Tyler Sullivan, who put it at Eagles 27, Titans 17 — a 10-point margin against an actual 4-point margin, good for 85.71 accuracy, the best of any score prediction we tracked on this game. John Breech was a hair behind at 27-16 (83.33 accuracy). Everyone else saw a bigger gap than what actually happened.
The calls that got the team right and the game wrong
Nobody picked the loser, so nobody registered a real miss here — every score prediction still landed in the "close" band or better. But the range says something. Pamela Maldonado had it 34-10, a 24-point margin, the widest of the serious predictions (52.38 accuracy). Tony Fusco's 96-3 call was explicitly satirical — part of a column calling exaggerated blowout scores across the slate — and still graded out at 50 accuracy purely for having the winner right. Strip those two out and the pattern holds anyway: Seth Walder (34-13, 21-point margin), Eric Moody (31-16, 15 points) and Pete Prisco (30-13, 17 points) all had Philadelphia running away with it. The Titans never let that happen.
Track records
Sullivan's sharp margin call is consistent with a pundit who's built a real record: he sits second on the overall leaderboard at 42.8 MissedTakes Score and 59.17 accuracy across 32 graded calls. It's also a step up from his own baseline in this specific category — his score predictions overall run 58.13 accuracy across seven graded calls, so this one beat his own average by a wide margin.
Middlekauff's confident-but-oversized call fits his broader profile more than it might look. Across 107 graded takes, his game-outcome picks specifically run 75.93 accuracy — one of his stronger categories — even though his overall MissedTakes Score (11.61) gets dragged down elsewhere, including a rough 20 accuracy in division-winner and Super Bowl calls. This one was squarely in his wheelhouse; he just also predicted a blowout that didn't come.
Maldonado is the one to watch with real caution: this game accounts for both of her graded takes on the site so far. She got the winner right and the score wrong, which is exactly what her two-take, provisional-confidence record shows — not enough yet to call a trend either way.
What it touches beyond this game
Across every game-outcome call we've graded involving Philadelphia, the field is hitting 86.1 accuracy over 91 graded picks — well ahead of the 11.8 accuracy pundits have managed on Titans game calls across 17 graded picks. That gap isn't new information this week, but a unanimous, correct field on the Eagles and a lopsided one on the Titans is exactly the shape you'd expect from those numbers. For where each club's win total, division and playoff calls stand from here, see the Eagles page, and check the leaderboard for who's actually been worth following all season.