Rich Eisen· Dec 10, 2025
Rich Eisen gave his Week 15 top-10 power rankings, installing the Rams at No. 1 as the best team in football, adding the Jaguars and keeping the Bears despite their loss, while dropping the Cowboys and Eagles off the list. He also projected 10-win seasons for both Chicago and Jacksonville and said the Jaguars would handle the Jets at home.
“I'm putting the Rams as the best team in football because I think they would pretty much beat everybody else from here on out.”
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4 checkable claims — 2 season win totals, 1 game outcome pick and 1 power ranking — each graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing bet.
It names 2 players and teams, each linked to their own record.
All 4 have settled, averaging 74.1 out of 100, against 39.1 for a naive guess at the same calls.
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4 checkable claims in this take
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.
- Season Win TotalsChicago BearsDec 10, 2025
Chicago Bears to finish with 10 wins
“they do have the Cleveland Browns at home next. I think they're gonna be a 10 win team welcoming the Packers into their house”
Hit · 80Scored 80a naive guess scored 15+79.3 skillHow this was scored
- team:
- CHI
- naive:
- 6.75
- skill:
- 79.3
- what happened:
- 11
- season:
- 2025
- zero at:
- 5
- accuracy:
- 80
- baseline:
- 15
- predicted:
- 10
- difficulty:
- 1.22
- weeks in the season:
- 18
- weeks left when called:
- 4
- Power RankingsDec 10, 2025
“These are my week 15 power rankings presented by Sonos... Number 10 on the list... I still don't put the Chicago Bears at ten... I'm putting the Jacksonville Jaguars on this list at nine... So they're eighth on this list [Texans]... I'm popping the Niners up two spots to seven... I'm putting the Bills right here [six]... I have the Packers at five... the Seattle Seahawks are there at four... I'm putting the Denver Broncos at three... The Patriots are two... I'm putting the Rams as the best team in football”
Close · 76Scored 76.36a naive guess scored 41.21+42.88 skillHow this was scored
- skill:
- 42.88
- method:
- spearman
- season:
- 2025
- accuracy:
- 76.36
- baseline:
- 41.21
- difficulty:
- 1.22
- weeks in the season:
- 18
- teams ranked:
- 10
- weeks left when called:
- 4
- Season Win TotalsJacksonville JaguarsDec 10, 2025
Jacksonville Jaguars to finish with 10 wins
“they're gonna be a 10 win team, the Jacksonville Jaguars, after they take care of the jets at home... this could be an 11 win team easily, and maybe a 12 win team”
Close · 40Scored 40a naive guess scored 0+48.8 skillHow this was scored
- team:
- JAX
- naive:
- 6.25
- skill:
- 48.8
- what happened:
- 13
- season:
- 2025
- zero at:
- 5
- accuracy:
- 40
- baseline:
- 0
- predicted:
- 10
- difficulty:
- 1.22
- weeks in the season:
- 18
- weeks left when called:
- 4
- Game Outcome PicksJacksonville JaguarsDec 10, 2025
Jacksonville Jaguars to beat jets
“after they take care of the jets at home before they go to Denver”
Hit · 100Scored 100a naive guess scored 100+0 skillHow this was scored
- won:
- JAX
- score:
- 20-48
- skill:
- 0
- they picked:
- JAX
- season:
- 2025
- accuracy:
- 100
- baseline:
- 100
- the naive pick:
- JAX
- difficulty:
- 1.22
- weeks in the season:
- 18
- weeks left when called:
- 4
What others said about the same people
- Nick WrightScore Predictions · Jacksonville JaguarsClose · 50On his Week 3 pick show, Nick Wright gave straight-up final-score predictions for five games, calling blowouts by Seattle over Washington and Kansas City over Miami, a Jacksonville home win over New England, a narrow New Orleans win over the Raiders and a low-scoring Baltimore win over Dallas in Brazil. He also called Seattle the best team in the NFL with the league's best defense.
- Geoff SchwartzGame Outcome Picks · Jacksonville JaguarsHit · 100Filling in on the chips segment, Schwartz took Jacksonville to beat New England, the Bengals to beat the Steelers, and the Cowboys to beat the Ravens on the Brazil field.
- Jordan DajaniScore Predictions · Jacksonville JaguarsClose · 50Dajani gave final-score predictions for eight Week 3 games, picking the Packers, Bengals, Jaguars, Texans, Buccaneers (upset), Ravens, Broncos (upset) and Eagles to win.
- Jared DubinScore Predictions · Jacksonville JaguarsClose · 50Dubin gave final-score predictions for the same eight Week 3 games, picking the Packers, Bengals, Jaguars, Texans, Vikings, Ravens, Rams and Eagles.
- Richard ShermanGame Outcome Picks · Jacksonville JaguarsHit · 100Sherman picked winners and several exact scores across the Week 3 slate, favoring Seattle, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Detroit, Green Bay, Carolina, New Orleans, Baltimore, the Rams, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Kansas City, Minnesota, the Giants, Jacksonville and Houston, and named Kenneth Walker his MVP.
- Tyler SullivanScore Predictions · Jacksonville JaguarsClose · 50Sullivan projects final scores for every Week 3 game, including a Bills blowout of the reeling Chargers, a Chiefs rout in Miami, a Seahawks win over a Mariota-led Washington, and the Saints beating the Raiders in their home opener. He also expects Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels and Jaxson Dart all to be sidelined in Week 3, with Marcus Mariota starting for Washington.
More season win totals
The same kind of call, about other players and teams.
- Colin CowherdSeason Win Totals · Dallas CowboysHit · 100Cowherd projects the NFC East with the Giants winning the division ahead of Philadelphia, Washington and Dallas, pegging the Cowboys as a six- or seven-win team. He also expects Malik Willis to land a big free-agent deal, Kayvon Thibodeaux to be moved, and Baltimore to lose Isaiah Likely, and he floats the Rams reaching on Ty Simpson late in round one.
- Richard ShermanSeason Win Totals · Green Bay PackersClose · 40Sherman previewed every division: he picked Seattle to win the NFC West on a tiebreaker over San Francisco (both 11-11 wins), the Lions over the Packers in the North, the Eagles to run away with the East, Tampa Bay in the South, and Kansas City, Buffalo and the Ravens' division rivals in the AFC. He picked an Eagles–Chiefs Super Bowl with Philadelphia repeating, Joe Burrow for MVP, and gave a top-five power ranking.
- Nick WrightSeason Win Totals · New England PatriotsMiss · 20Nick Wright walked through the Browns' quarterback situation and then gave leans and bets on every AFC team's win total, offering concrete win-count expectations for several clubs plus a call on Brock Bowers.
- John MiddlekauffSeason Win Totals · San Francisco 49ersClose · 60Middlekauff says Denver's floor is ten wins, predicts Miami implodes to four or five wins and a top-three-or-four draft slot with Tyreek Hill traded, thinks the 49ers beat expectations with nine or ten wins, sees the Patriots at eight or nine wins, calls the Chargers over 9.5 a lock, expects Jared Goff to make five or six Pro Bowls, and says the Packers are flying under the radar.
- Colin CowherdSeason Win Totals · New England PatriotsMiss · 0Cowherd takes the Titans over their five-and-a-half win total on the strength of Cam Ward and Brian Callahan, calls New England an eight-to-nine win team, picks Green Bay to win the NFC North, expects the Giants to lose all four games to Washington and Philadelphia, and sketches a quarterback ranking with C.J. Stroud around 10th and Baker Mayfield 11th.
- Nick WrightSeason Win Totals · Denver BroncosMiss · 20Nick Wright gave his early AFC win-total leans: overs on the Jets, Ravens, Jaguars, Chiefs and Raiders, plus projected win ranges for the Dolphins, Texans, Chargers and Broncos, and predicted the Raiders take Ashton Jeanty at No. 6.