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Dan Patrick has been a fixture of American sports broadcasting for decades. He hosted The Dan Patrick Show on Premiere Networks and Peacock, co-hosted NBC's Football Night in America, and spent 18 years at ESPN anchoring SportsCenter. He also served as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and hosts the podcast Dan Patrick Takes a Gamble, focused on sports wagering. His show covers a wide range of NFL topics — quarterback rankings, post-draft power rankings, combine analysis — and he clearly enjoys the NFL Combine as a guilty pleasure, with recurring segments on prospect measurements and draft speculation. His predictions here span game outcomes, Super Bowl picks, draft positioning, player awards, and win totals across teams like the Chiefs, Ravens, Lions, and Eagles.
Writes at The Rich Eisen Show (podcast)
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Is Dan Patrick accurate? Across 26 graded calls in 12 articles, Dan Patrick scores 52.11% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of -24.68, 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.
A limited sample — under 30 graded articles.
100% of their claims were specific enough to check. Most of what they said committed to something.
Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below shows its own arithmetic.
Ty Simpson to be picked “first round” (picks 1–32)
“is somebody going to go all in in the first, round which they probably will For Ty? Simpson, okay happens every single. Year”
Fernando Mendoza to be 1st quarterback off the board
“get ready for this because there's only one legitimate quarterback, first round quarterback. That's Fernando Mendoza.”
Sonny Styles to be picked “top ten pick” (picks 1–10)
“that player is Sonny Styles, who is going to be a top ten pick, but he may have moved up even a little bit higher than that”
Malik Willis to be 1st on the depth chart
“I say to Malik Willis, come on in here you go, job's yours... And I don't think JJ McCarthy is the answer, at least not yet.”
Dillon Gabriel to be 2nd on the depth chart
“He's probably a career backup quarterback in the NFL.”
Kansas City Chiefs to reach the Super Bowl
“who would you be your favorites of the NFC and AFC... Well, I'm not going to change... I still believe in Kansas City proof of concept and I believe in the Lions as well.”
Tampa Bay Buccaneers to finish with 12 wins
“Tampa Bay could put up twelve wins, thirteen wins now all of a sudden they got home field advantage.”
“I would put three teams in there. I mean, I still think the Rams are in that top five in the NFC... I would say Lions, Packers, Rams, Eagles. That'd be my top my top four.”
Detroit Lions to win the Super Bowl
“Now I have the Lions winning the super Bowl, but after I what Green Bay did to them.”
Baltimore Ravens to make the playoffs
“I think the ratings gonna make the playoffs without a doubt. Man, I don't see any reason why not.”
Arizona Cardinals to make the playoffs
“I don't see them as a Super Bowl contender, but I do see them as a playoff team.”
Terry McLaurin to record 1,000 receiving yards
“He was number one in contested catches the last five years. He's going to give you a thousand yards.”
Shedeur Sanders to be 2nd quarterback off the board
“More than likely cam Ward will go first and then Shadoor Sanders after that.”
Cam Ward to be 1st quarterback off the board
“More than likely cam Ward will go first and then Shadoor Sanders after that.”
Mason Graham to be picked “top five player” (picks 1–5)
“You might pass up on Mason Graham out of Michigan, who might be a top five player”
Jaxson Dart to be picked “might go at the end of first round, maybe second round, third round” (picks 1–102)
“I look forward to seeing Jackson Dart, who I think is the first round talent at quarterback. I think he's underrated talent now, might go at the end of first round, maybe second round, third round.”
Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl
“ThReD Pete Chiefs again. Patrick Mahomes MV pick final score thirty one to thirty.”
Kansas City Chiefs 31 — Eagles 30
“final score thirty one to thirty. Yeah, thirty one thirty”
Patrick Mahomes to win Super Bowl MVP
“Patrick Mahomes MV pick”
Christian McCaffrey to win MVP
“Well, McCaffrey last year should've won it.”
Kansas City Chiefs to beat Texans
“I might take the Chiefs just to be just to do it... It should be Chiefs and Lions roll”
Philadelphia Eagles to beat Rams
“I think there's gonna be a lot of people ruin for the Rams between Stafford's last ride. I don't I don't think they're gonna do it.”
“so you have Lamar ahead of Alan right now... So you have you have that flipped. / Yes with a sigh.”
Lamar Jackson to win MVP
“I think Lamar's gonna win.”
Detroit Lions to beat Commanders
“It should be Chiefs and Lions roll and get ready for the next step.”
“I think it should be a consensus number one. I think it's Stafford... I think I might be Daniel's over and golf... if you're ranking these quarterbacks being pure, I think Hurts would be last.”