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Kyle Brandt is a television host and media personality who serves as one of the hosts of Good Morning Football on NFL Network. Before moving into sports media, Brandt played Philip Kiriakis on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives and appeared on The Real World: Chicago. Brandt also spent seven years as executive producer of The Jim Rome Show and hosted the game show Frogger. The predictions here cover game outcomes, playoff berths, division winners, draft positions, and player awards. Teams mentioned include the Buffalo Bills, Pittsburgh Steelers, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks, Los Angeles Chargers, and Los Angeles Rams. Players named range from Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders to Saquon Barkley and Aaron Rodgers.
Across 105 graded calls in 30 articles, Kyle Brandt scores 53.9% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 11.71, which means their calls were better than a naive guess on the same claims.
That is an established record: thirty or more graded articles. That ranks #56 of 87 ranked NFL pundits on the MissedTakes leaderboard. Their strongest kind of call is Playoff Picks (78.33% accuracy across 27 graded calls); their weakest is Game Outcome Picks (45.83% across 12 graded calls).
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Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below opens to its own arithmetic.
All 114 calls · one square per call
50hits48% of graded
12Close11%
43misses41%
How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.
Kyle Robert Brandt, born January 24, 1979, is an American television host, media personality and actor, and one of the hosts of Good Morning Football on NFL Network. Most of what we hold from Brandt was said out loud rather than typed: 33 of the 34 pieces collected between January 2025 and November 2026 are podcast or broadcast transcripts.
The predictions are NFL ones, and they follow the rhythms of a daily football show. Playoff picks come first, with 28 resolved, followed by division winners (20), individual game picks (12), award picks (9) and mock draft picks (9). Power rankings, top-player lists and coaching awards appear too. The episode titles read like a season calendar: MVP predictions in opening week, Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year segments, Survivor Picks, Super Bowl picks, and a Saturday installment billed as a "Preseason Prediction Check!" in which the show circles back to its own summer calls.
The work is overwhelmingly audio. Thirty-two pieces are filed under the Move the Sticks podcast across 2025 and 2026, one under the Good Morning Football podcast in 2026, and one, the only written entry, under CBS Sports in 2026. The volume is concentrated in 2025, with 30 pieces, against four from 2026. Among the headlines we hold is one asking whether the winless Titans should bench Cam Ward and arguing that abandoning the former No. 1 pick would not fix Tennessee's problems.
The teams that recur are the Bills, Steelers, Patriots, Titans, Eagles, Seahawks, Chargers and Rams. The Eagles show up again and again in episode titles, from an opener to an Eagles-Cowboys preview to an Eagles win, and the Patriots get a Friday segment titled "Patriots Win Super Bowl IF....." with the condition left hanging. The players discussed include Cam Ward, Cam Skattebo, Aaron Rodgers, Tyler Warren, Ashton Jeanty, Shemar Stewart, Josh Palmer, Saquon Barkley, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders, with Ward and the Titans drawing the most direct argument in the material we hold.
105 graded calls in 31 articles, newest first — page 1 of 4. Every take from Kyle Brandt, including the ones still waiting →
Game calls show that game’s closing betting line under their grade: a dated fact from nflverse, for context and never part of a grade. MissedTakes takes no bets and earns nothing from any sportsbook.
9waitingnot graded yet
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 Kyle Brandt would be #61; the Score measures the lift over a naive guess on the same calls, and that puts this record at #56.
| # | Pundit | Score | Accuracy | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | Colin Cowherd | 13.3 | 56.81% | 415 |
| 55 | Gilberto Manzano | 12.26 | 43.45% | 40 |
| 56 | Kyle Brandt | 11.71 | 53.9% | 105 |
| 57 | David Harrison | 10.28 | 63.89% | 248 |
| 58 | Chris Simms | 9.74 | 56.77% | 98 |
The route to the morning football desk was not a straight one. Brandt was executive producer of The Jim Rome Show from 2009 until 2016. Before that came a run playing Philip Kiriakis on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives and a place in the cast of The Real World: Chicago on MTV, plus a stint hosting the game show Frogger. Scripted drama, reality television, a game show and years behind the scenes of sports talk radio all came before the playoff picks.
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New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl
“there's something in my gut that tells me Mike Rabel is going to find a way. Rabel, it is a seventeen.”
New England Patriots 20 — Seahawks 17
“I think the Patriots have a walk off field goal win again, and they are going to Seattle twenty to seventeen”
Closing line (Feb 8): Seahawks by 4.5, total 45.5 · this 20–17 calls a Patriots win (by 3; the line gave the Patriots about 1 in 3 (32%)) and fewer points (37).
“number six. I have Pittsburgh... I have the charges... Houston... I have them all the way at number four... Next at number three, I got the Pats... I have Buffalo at the number two... I got du Ball County the Jaguars at number one”
Kansas City Chiefs to beat Texans
“I'll give you a prediction Sunday Night Football. The Chiefs win, and they also avoid going to six and seven”
Closing line (Dec 7): Chiefs by 4.5 · favorite pick, Chiefs about 2 in 3 (66%).
Los Angeles Rams to beat Cardinals
“I know it's a division rivalry, but this team should beat the Cardinals, who are really hurting right now.”
Closing line (Dec 7): Rams by 9.5 · favorite pick, Rams about 4 in 5 (80%).
Denver Broncos to beat Raiders
“The Raiders are really bad. I'm sorry to say that sentence, but it's true. I think Denver wins again.”
Closing line (Dec 7): Broncos by 8.5 · favorite pick, Broncos about 4 in 5 (79%).
Kansas City Chiefs to make the playoffs
“But I've been saying I still think the Chiefs are going to the playoff for two months.”
Cam Ward to win Offensive Rookie of the Year
“my pick for offensive Rookie of the Year. I was sitting here saying, cam Ward”
Pittsburgh Steelers to make the playoffs
“Is it nine and eight and they squeak in or is it ten and seven and they have a nice comfortable wild card. It is still going to happen. I won't deviate.”
Baltimore Ravens to make the playoffs
“I like my wild cards. I like pretty much everything except the Ravens record is not good.”
Chicago Bears to make the playoffs
“I know, the Bears, someone jumps out as being strange, but everything else, I mean, the wildcard teams, the division champs, like, I'm pretty comfortable with that.”
Seattle Seahawks to win the division
“I had winning the NFC West, not as a wild card, not behind the Rams, not behind San Francisco, but the Sam Darnold, wildly unproven Seahawks.”
Buffalo Bills to beat Kansas City
“history tells us that Buffalo coming off scoring forty points and Josh Allam's grandmother time to smile, will probably win this game as well as Kansas City's playing”
Closing line (Nov 2): Chiefs by 2.5 · underdog pick, Bills 45%.
Seattle Seahawks to win the division
“the Seattle Seahawks. I had winning the NFC West, not as a wild card, not behind the Rams, not behind San Francisco... I still think all of my picks are going to be right”
Pittsburgh Steelers to make the playoffs
“It's the Steelers... Is it nine to eight and they squeak in or is it ten and seven and they have a nice comfortable wild card. It is still going to happen. I won't deviate.”