Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Caroline Fenton react to Yahoo Sports’ recent simulation of the upcoming NFL season that led to Atlanta beating the Houston Texans in the Super Bowl.
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7.5 is the win total for the Atlanta Falcons.
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Like to me, that speaks to the fact that people believe in Michael Penix Jr. Like they’re thinking he’s gonna get to 8 wins based on what?
That maybe it’s based on our own Charles McDonald.
Uh, Charles McDonald and I might have a little beef on this.
He does an annual Madden simulation.
It’s one of my favorite things that are out there.
And so he does it every year.
The full results of the 2025 Madden sim are live on the website.
Just a few minutes ago, they went up.
Somehow, CMAC, the lifelong diehard Atlanta Falcons fan has gotten us to a simulation where the Falcons, the #6 seed, go on the road, dominate their way to a Super Bowl victory over the Texans.
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Dominate.
Ray-Ray McLeod out here as the Super Bowl MVP.
Atlanta goes on the road to Philadelphia, Tampa Bay, and San Francisco.
I don’t know who CMAC bribed with EA Sports, but like, man, I, I mean, and look, I’m jealous.
This is, I’m jealous.
I’ve done the simulation a million times.
It’s never come out with my beloved Raiders winning the Super Bowl.
So I don’t know, the conspiracy, I’m putting on my tin hat.
I’m going full Caroline Fenton.
I am now a conspiracy theorist.
I believe that CMAC rigged the entire Madden simulation to make sure his Falcons won a Super Bowl.
I think if you do the simulation enough times, you get enough variety of answers, right?
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So how many times did CMAC do that simulation just to see the Falcons potentially win a Super Bowl?
However, I fear that is the only Super Bowl that the Falcons will be sniffing is in fantasyland hypothetical Madden simulation, at least this upcoming year.
It looks 7.5 as the over-under win total.
Let’s go through their schedule.
OK. Tampa Bay, I think that’s a loss; at Minnesota, I think that’s a loss.
At Carolina.
Sure, that’s a game they can win.
At home against Washington, yeah, I think that’s a loss.
Buffalo loss; at San Francisco, loss.
I mean, we’re through 12, 36 weeks of the season and I don’t see a very clear and obvious win other than Carolina.
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So they’re one in five.
Right there, if they’re one in five.
And Michael Petty Jr. is struggling against good teams.
Now all of a sudden we’re right back in the Bryce Young territory where, all right, do they make a quarterback change?
Are they gonna put in, like, there’s, there’s a reason why we’re still sitting around here, you know, and there are two quarterback rooms, even though we don’t want to talk about Kirk Cousins, like we don’t talk about Bruno.
Kirk Cousins is still on that roster.
I’m just saying.