Episode 16.01, the Welcome Back to Football Week 1 Show.
Airdate: Monday, September 7th, 2026.
After six seasons away, Steven Miranda is back, and he’s brought a new co-host. Meet Axis Iron, the AI-powered analyst who has spent the offseason refining her algorithm, analyzing multiple years of NFL data and stats, and has now run 10,000 simulations on each Week 1 matchup. She is not shy about letting Steven know it.
Steven kicks off the new season by breaking down the show’s new format. Steven vs. the machine. He explains how Axis Iron works and why he is confident that 15 years of watching football beats any algorithm. Axis Iron, of course, disagrees.
The two go head-to-head on all 17 Week 1 matchups and manage to agree on most of them, but they split on 6 games, and those are the ones worth paying attention to. Who do you trust: the guy who’s been watching football since before some of these players were born, or the AI crunching numbers in the background?
Axis Iron gives her straight-up LOCK of the WEEK, and Steven counters with his LOCK of the WEEK against the spread. Two picks. Two very different approaches. Let’s see who gets the last laugh.
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