THE BROADWAY BRIEF | December 22, 2025

This slate is brutal.
Not misleading. Not tricky. Just bad.

Across the NFL and NBA, the board is cluttered with comfort pricing, reputation bias, and numbers that look playable until you actually stress-test them. Winning streaks are being protected. Recent results are being rationalized instead of corrected. Most of the card is priced to feel safe, not to be right.

I even went digging into college basketball looking for relief. Same story. Flat motivation spots. Short numbers with no margin. Totals priced for pace that never materializes. No urgency. No misalignment. No reason to force action.

That matters.

Forcing plays is how good processes die. When the slate doesn’t present intention, we don’t invent it. Volume is optional. Discipline isn’t.

What follows is restraint by design. Most games failed the filter immediately. A few survived not because they were attractive, but because the market stayed stubbornly wrong.

Below are the structural profiles that actually earned a position today.