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Dan Patrick has been a fixture of American sports broadcasting for decades. He hosted The Dan Patrick Show on Premiere Networks and Peacock, co-hosted NBC's Football Night in America, and spent 18 years at ESPN anchoring SportsCenter. He also served as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and hosts the podcast Dan Patrick Takes a Gamble, focused on sports wagering. His show covers a wide range of NFL topics — quarterback rankings, post-draft power rankings, combine analysis — and he clearly enjoys the NFL Combine as a guilty pleasure, with recurring segments on prospect measurements and draft speculation. His predictions here span game outcomes, Super Bowl picks, draft positioning, player awards, and win totals across teams like the Chiefs, Ravens, Lions, and Eagles.
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Across 26 graded calls in 12 articles, Dan Patrick scores 52.11% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of -24.68, which means their calls were worse than a naive guess on the same claims.
That is a limited sample, under thirty graded articles, so treat it with caution. That ranks #80 of 87 ranked NFL pundits on the MissedTakes leaderboard.
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Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below opens to its own arithmetic.
All 33 calls · one square per call
10hits38% of graded
2Close8%
14misses54%
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How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.
No kind has five graded calls yet, so none is rated.
Dan Patrick has been a fixture of American sports broadcasting for decades. He hosted The Dan Patrick Show on Premiere Networks and Peacock, co-hosted NBC's Football Night in America, and spent 18 years at ESPN anchoring SportsCenter. He also served as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and hosts the podcast Dan Patrick Takes a Gamble, focused on sports wagering. His show covers a wide range of NFL topics — quarterback rankings, post-draft power rankings, combine analysis — and he clearly enjoys the NFL Combine as a guilty pleasure, with recurring segments on prospect measurements and draft speculation. His predictions here span game outcomes, Super Bowl picks, draft positioning, player awards, and win totals across teams like the Chiefs, Ravens, Lions, and Eagles.
A longer profile is written once a record reaches 30 graded articles, and published only after a person reviews it.
26 graded calls in 13 articles, newest first — page 1 of 2. Every take from Dan Patrick, including the ones still waiting →
Ty Simpson to be picked “first round” (picks 1–32)
“is somebody going to go all in in the first, round which they probably will For Ty? Simpson, okay happens every single. Year”
The same 87, by how often their calls landed, with no credit for difficulty.
Why the ranks differ: a naive guess scores very differently depending on which calls were made, from 15.25% on the hardest record here to 85.71% on the easiest. Accuracy alone flatters easy calls, so by accuracy Dan Patrick would be #63; the Score measures the lift over a naive guess on the same calls, and that puts this record at #80.
| # | Pundit | Score | Accuracy | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78 | Garrett Podell | -18.72 | 48.81% | 14 |
| 79 | Mitch Goldich | -20.15 | 19.91% | 38 |
| 80 | Dan Patrick | -24.68 | 52.11% | 26 |
| 81 | Chad Jensen | -28.84 | 68.81% | 14 |
| 82 | John Pluym | -31.7 | 19.32% | 39 |
Fernando Mendoza to be 1st quarterback off the board
“get ready for this because there's only one legitimate quarterback, first round quarterback. That's Fernando Mendoza.”
Sonny Styles to be picked “top ten pick” (picks 1–10)
“that player is Sonny Styles, who is going to be a top ten pick, but he may have moved up even a little bit higher than that”
Malik Willis to be 1st on the depth chart
“I say to Malik Willis, come on in here you go, job's yours... And I don't think JJ McCarthy is the answer, at least not yet.”
Dillon Gabriel to be 2nd on the depth chart
“He's probably a career backup quarterback in the NFL.”
Tampa Bay Buccaneers to finish with 12 wins
“Tampa Bay could put up twelve wins, thirteen wins now all of a sudden they got home field advantage.”
Kansas City Chiefs to reach the Super Bowl
“who would you be your favorites of the NFC and AFC... Well, I'm not going to change... I still believe in Kansas City proof of concept and I believe in the Lions as well.”
“I would put three teams in there. I mean, I still think the Rams are in that top five in the NFC... I would say Lions, Packers, Rams, Eagles. That'd be my top my top four.”
Detroit Lions to win the Super Bowl
“Now I have the Lions winning the super Bowl, but after I what Green Bay did to them.”
Baltimore Ravens to make the playoffs
“I think the ratings gonna make the playoffs without a doubt. Man, I don't see any reason why not.”
Arizona Cardinals to make the playoffs
“I don't see them as a Super Bowl contender, but I do see them as a playoff team.”
Terry McLaurin to record 1,000 receiving yards
“He was number one in contested catches the last five years. He's going to give you a thousand yards.”