how this year s predictions stacked up to reality. max, great to have you with us. great to be here, as always. let s look at sports ill straited s predictions. he missed four of the six playoff teams. max, what do you make of that? were these huge mistakes or obvious choices he should have done better than that, don t you think? the thing about the nfl, it s essentially a league of perfect parody. in other words, intrinsically, most teams are 8-8 teams. lucky ones goes 10-6, unlucky ones, 6-10. there are a few at either end. the lucky ones, 12-4, the unlucky ones, 10-6, you get the idea. let s take the patriots. he figured they were going to get a little unlucky one of these years. every year you want to sound like a smart guy, they re the odds-on favorite because of bill belichick. so you want to sound like you