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Rich Eisen · Sep 22, 2025

Eisen pushed back on the narrow Super Bowl field, naming many teams as contenders, argued the Colts are in pole position to win their division, said the Bengals will finish 9-8 or thereabouts rather than land a top-10 pick, called Seattle a playoff team, and agreed Herbert is an MVP-caliber choice while noting the Rams are the best but not only NFC threat.

The Colts can potentially win the Super Bowl.

said on air, transcribed by us · Overreaction Monday (podcast) · read the original →

4 checkable claims from this

Each one is scored on its own against the published methodology. A pundit naming several outcomes is graded on each, not on all-or-nothing.

  • Cincinnati Bengals to finish with 9 wins

    He goes even one game under 500, they're gonna be nine and eight at the end of the season.

    Close · 40Scored 40a naive guess scored 45-9.45 skill
    How this was scored
    team:
    CIN
    naive:
    8.75
    skill:
    -9.45
    what happened:
    6
    season:
    2025
    zero at:
    5
    accuracy:
    40
    baseline:
    45
    predicted:
    9
    difficulty:
    1.89
    weeks in the season:
    18
    weeks left when called:
    16

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  • Seattle Seahawks to make the playoffs

    They look like a playoff team, Seattle.

    Hit · 100Scored 100a naive guess scored 0+189 skill
    How this was scored
    team:
    SEA
    skill:
    189
    season:
    2025
    accuracy:
    100
    baseline:
    0
    naive said:
    false
    difficulty:
    1.89
    weeks in the season:
    18
    made playoffs:
    true
    weeks left when called:
    16

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  • Indianapolis Colts to win the division

    and then continues on and wins this division, which it sure looks like they are in a pole position to do

    Not settled yet. This is graded once the season it describes has finished.

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  • Jake Browning to record ? an unstated measure

    what we're looking at with Jake Browning is potentially, and this is why he might be a backup, is a 500 quarterback

    Too vague to check — we could not tell what would count as right.

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