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Randy Gurzi writes for Sports Illustrated, covering the Buffalo Bills, Dallas Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks. The work includes game outcomes, score projections, roster moves and player availability. Josh Allen, Dalton Kincaid and C.J. Gardner-Johnson all appear in the predictions.
Across 81 graded calls in 18 articles, Randy Gurzi scores 50.94% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of -8.88, 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 #74 of 87 ranked NFL pundits on the MissedTakes leaderboard.
How accurate are NFL experts overall? →
Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below opens to its own arithmetic.
All 159 calls · one square per call
56hits69% of graded
4Close5%
21misses26%
78
How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.
Randy Gurzi writes for Sports Illustrated, covering the Buffalo Bills, Dallas Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks. The work includes game outcomes, score projections, roster moves and player availability. Josh Allen, Dalton Kincaid and C.J. Gardner-Johnson all appear in the predictions.
A longer profile is written once a record reaches 30 graded articles, and published only after a person reviews it.
81 graded calls in 18 articles, newest first — page 1 of 4. Every take from Randy Gurzi, 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.
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 Randy Gurzi would be #66; the Score measures the lift over a naive guess on the same calls, and that puts this record at #74.
| # | Pundit | Score | Accuracy | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | Nathan Jahnke | -4.33 | 69.01% | 69 |
| 73 | Joe Pisapia | -5.61 | 73.61% | 20 |
| 74 | Randy Gurzi | -8.88 | 50.94% | 81 |
| 75 | Danny Parkins | -9.17 | 58.87% | 109 |
| 76 | Benjamin Solak | -9.4 | 30.01% | 11 |
Buffalo Bills 27 — Vikings 13
“Score prediction : Bills 27, Vikings 13”
Closing line (Nov 9): Bills by 3, total 45.5 · this 27–13 calls a bigger Bills win (by 14) and fewer points (40).
Seattle Seahawks 27 — Cardinals 10
“Score prediction: Seahawks 27, Cardinals 10”
Closing line (Nov 8): Seahawks by 8.5, total 39.5 · this 27–10 calls a bigger Seahawks win (by 17) and fewer points (37).
Seattle Seahawks 27 — Cardinals 10
“Randy Gurzi: Seahawks 27, Cardinals 10”
Closing line (Nov 8): Seahawks by 8.5, total 39.5 · this 27–10 calls a bigger Seahawks win (by 17) and fewer points (37).
Taylor Rapp to move to Buffalo Bills
“His desire to sign players he knows well makes Rapp a realistic option to fill some depth at safety. ... a reunion should only be on the table if the Bills strike out at the trade deadline.”
Seattle Seahawks 24 — Bears 13
“Final score: Seahawks 24, Bears 13”
Closing line (Nov 2): Seahawks by 3, total 46.5 · this 24–13 calls a bigger Seahawks win (by 11) and fewer points (37).
Dallas Cowboys to beat Arizona Cardinals
“Dallas has two more games coming up that they should be able to win. In Week 8, they host the 2-5 Arizona Cardinals”
Closing line (Nov 1): Cowboys by 7 · favorite pick, Cowboys about 3 in 4 (74%).
Dallas Cowboys to beat Indianapolis Colts
“Dallas has two more games coming up that they should be able to win... and in Week 9, they visit the 2-5 Indianapolis Colts.”
C.J. Gardner-Johnson to move — “releasing Gardner-Johnson”
“head coach Joe Brady needs to take a stand and show the rest of the team that discipline and accountabilty matter by releasing Gardner-Johnson.”
Seattle Seahawks 24 — Broncos 20
“Prediction: Seahawks 24, Broncos 20”
Closing line (Oct 15): Seahawks by 2.5, total 40.5 · this 24–20 calls a bigger Seahawks win (by 4) and more points (44).