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LaVar Arrington played linebacker in the NFL for seven seasons after Penn State, drafted second overall by the Washington Redskins in 2000 and later a member of the New York Giants. Since retiring, Arrington has built a broadcasting career that includes pregame and postgame work for Comcast SportsNet, a weekday radio show on 106.7 The Fan in Washington, D.C., a stint on NFL Network's NFL AM, and time as a football analyst on FS1's Speak For Yourself. In September 2021, Arrington joined Brady Quinn and Jonas Knox as a host of 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, Fox Sports Radio's morning drive show, where the predictions graded here appear. The calls cover game outcomes, playoff races, division winners and conference champions across the Eagles, Ravens, Vikings, Chiefs, Steelers, Broncos, Chargers and Bengals, along with individual players such as Deshaun Watson, Brian Burns and Kayvon Thibodeaux.
More about LaVar Arrington ↓Writes at 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe (podcast)
Across 41 graded calls in 5 articles, LaVar Arrington scores 39.71% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of -4.82, which means their calls were worse than a naive guess on the same claims.
That is a provisional record, fewer than ten graded articles, so the numbers are not yet meaningful and they are not ranked on the leaderboard.
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Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below opens to its own arithmetic.
All 45 calls · one square per call
12hits29% of graded
5Close12%
24misses59%
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How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.
Teams and players where LaVar Arrington keeps landing outside the room: at least twice, their call sat beyond every other pundit who made a comparable one — higher or lower than all of them, in a room of at least five voices. The bar is their standing lean (+100 would be the most bullish voice in every room), and the accuracy covers just those out-on-a-limb calls, once they settle.
Outside the room in 2 of 2 articles — always higher · when they strayed: 0.0 accuracy (2 settled)
LaVar Arrington played linebacker in the NFL for seven seasons after Penn State, drafted second overall by the Washington Redskins in 2000 and later a member of the New York Giants. Since retiring, Arrington has built a broadcasting career that includes pregame and postgame work for Comcast SportsNet, a weekday radio show on 106.7 The Fan in Washington, D.C., a stint on NFL Network's NFL AM, and time as a football analyst on FS1's Speak For Yourself. In September 2021, Arrington joined Brady Quinn and Jonas Knox as a host of 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, Fox Sports Radio's morning drive show, where the predictions graded here appear. The calls cover game outcomes, playoff races, division winners and conference champions across the Eagles, Ravens, Vikings, Chiefs, Steelers, Broncos, Chargers and Bengals, along with individual players such as Deshaun Watson, Brian Burns and Kayvon Thibodeaux.
A longer profile is written once a record reaches 30 graded articles, and published only after a person reviews it.
41 graded calls in 5 articles, newest first — page 1 of 2. Every take from LaVar Arrington, 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.
The same 87, by how often their calls landed, with no credit for difficulty.
LaVar Arrington isn’t ranked yet: a record is ranked from 10 graded articles, so a lucky first handful can’t top the table.
Miami Dolphins to finish with 4 wins
“I mean, so we're looking at I don't know, man, three. four more. At the most, maybe four more wins.”
Baltimore Ravens to beat Dolphins
“You got the Ravens. They gonna win that.”
Kansas City Chiefs to beat Giants
“what if the Chiefs just come out and obliterate the Giants?... I think they will.”
Closing line (Sep 21): Chiefs by 6 · favorite pick, Chiefs about 3 in 4 (73%).
Washington Commanders to beat Falcons
“So they should beat the Raiders, they should beat the Falcons.”
Washington Commanders to beat Raiders
“So they should beat the Raiders, they should beat the Falcons.”
Washington Commanders to beat Bears
“Yeah, I mean, and they should beat the Bears... they should be able to beat them.”
“I got them one, Baltimore two, Pittsburgh rounding it out at three. And yes, the Cleveland Brown's kicking the can at four”
Houston Texans to win the division
“So I got the Texans winning it.”
“I think that the Chargers will be number one and Case will be number two... Outside of the lonely number four Las Vegas Raiders”
Buffalo Bills to win the division
“that means that Buffalo is going to win the AFC East, and I think it will be by a long shot”
Cincinnati Bengals to win the division
“I do have Cincinnati a top of the AFC North.”
Los Angeles Chargers to win the division
“I think that the Chargers will be number one and Case will be number two.”
“I have New England at the bottom, all the way at the bottom... the New York Jets won't be far off from them... the runner up are the Fins. Yeah, the Miami Dolphins. I got the mat number two, and that means that Buffalo is going to win the AFC East”
“I got the Texans winning it... I put the Jags at too... But I got Tennessee at three and I got Indy at four.”