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Ross Jackson hosts Locked On Saints, where he covers the New Orleans Saints with the full-spectrum attention the format demands — from draft boards and 53-man projections to breakout candidates and statistical forecasts. His work spans the roster-building calendar, following players like Tyler Shough and Jordyn Tyson through camp and into season predictions.
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Across 248 graded calls in 32 articles, Ross Jackson scores 66.96% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 34.21, 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 #21 of 87 ranked NFL pundits on the MissedTakes leaderboard. Their strongest kind of call is Roster Spot Calls (93.31% accuracy across 86 graded calls); their weakest is Mock Draft Picks (63.28% across 141 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 356 calls · one square per call
142hits57% of graded
31Close13%
75misses30%
How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.
Teams and players where Ross Jackson 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 (1 higher, 1 lower) · when they strayed: 51.8 accuracy (2 settled)
Ross Jackson hosts Locked On Saints, where he covers the New Orleans Saints with the full-spectrum attention the format demands — from draft boards and 53-man projections to breakout candidates and statistical forecasts. His work spans the roster-building calendar, following players like Tyler Shough and Jordyn Tyson through camp and into season predictions.
A longer profile is written once a record reaches 30 graded articles, and published only after a person reviews it.
248 graded calls in 32 articles, newest first — page 1 of 8. Every take from Ross Jackson, 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.
New Orleans Saints 27 — Raiders 24
108waitingnot 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 Ross Jackson would be #31; the Score measures the lift over a naive guess on the same calls, and that puts this record at #21.
| # | Pundit | Score | Accuracy | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | Peter Schrager | 35.4 | 70.35% | 48 |
| 20 | Jake Ciely | 34.92 | 73.81% | 41 |
| 21 | Ross Jackson | 34.21 | 66.96% | 248 |
| 22 | Dan Graziano | 33.3 | 50% | 10 |
| 23 | Jordan Dajani | 32.79 | 66.1% | 116 |
“I think the Saints can walk away with this one... I'd say, like, 27, 24, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's 35, 31”
Closing line (Sep 27): Saints by 3.5, total 43.5 · this 27–24 calls a closer game (Saints by 3) and more points (51).
Detroit Lions 27 — Saints 20
“maybe I kinda ride the fence here and say twenty seven twenty Detroit”
Closing line (Sep 13): Lions by 7, total 49.5 · this 27–20 calls the line’s margin (Lions by 7) and fewer points (47).