2025 NFL Week 18 Recap: The Playoffs are set!
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Gregg Rosenthal is joined by Jourdan Rodrigue, Patrick Claybon and Nick Shook to recap all of the Week 18 action from around the NFL starting with the Ravens at the Steelers followed by Chargers at Broncos (16:00), Titans at Jaguars (22:20), Colts at Texans (31:10), Dolphins at Patriots (41:10), Jets at Bills (46:50), Seahawks at 49ers (52:40), Panthers at Buccaneers (01:04:50), Saints at Falcons (01:16:30), Lions at Bears (01:27:40), Commanders at Eagles (01:31:45), Cardinals at Rams (01:38:15), Browns at Bengals (01:42:20), Packers at Vikings (01:49:55), Cowboys at Giants (01:57:08), and Chiefs at Raiders (02:00:50).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.9 | Welcome to NFL Daily, where they got us in the end. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Greg Rosenthal here in the Chris Wesleying podcast studio. |
| 0:18.5 | On YouTube live for the first time and obviously in your ears the morning after |
| 0:24.7 | one of the wildest Sunday night cappers to finish a regular season. I'm with my friends |
| 0:31.4 | Jordan Roderig and Patrick Claibon who's going to give us a lesson in professionalism. Patrick, you warned me when Lamar Jackson hit that throw to Isaiah likely on fourth down, |
| 0:45.6 | down the field, and Isaac likely is skying through the air to make what should have been |
| 0:50.2 | the play of the game that we had a lot of ball game left. And unfortunately, we didn't |
| 0:55.5 | have much left, but it was a give-up play. And it was a missed field goal by Tyler Loop that |
| 1:01.0 | ends the Ravens season. And to shout out Greg Rosenthal, it's not hindsight. It was foresight to say, |
| 1:06.6 | I don't like that. I don't like centering up the ball with that opportunity with a guy who was 27 yards shy of leading the NFL in rushing, has more explosive runs almost than anybody in the last 40 years in Derek Henry to not give him one more shot. But hey, you know, congratulations to the... But hey, you know what? I got to say, the Ravens and the Steelers, they give us stuff to talk about. |
| 1:27.7 | In a world that's topsy, Turvy, you don't know what's going to happen. The Ravens Steelers, they always deliver. And we're going to get to recapping that Ravens and Steelers game. This is a full recap show that we're doing here live on YouTube. And so what we're going to do, we're going to break it up. AFC first because of that Ravens game, |
| 1:44.8 | go through all the teams that made the playoffs, |
| 1:47.1 | and then NFC. live on YouTube. And so what we're going to do, we're going to break it up. AFC first because of that Ravens game, go through all the teams that made the playoffs, |
| 1:47.1 | and then NFC after that with the Great Saturday Games as well. |
| 1:50.8 | But first, let's actually look at the playoff schedule before we get into these games and the matchups. |
| 1:57.9 | Ooh. |
| 1:58.9 | West of us. |
| 2:00.3 | Yeah. |
| 2:01.0 | You might be going to this, Jordan Rodriguez. |
| 2:03.1 | We'll see that the traditional time that Andy Dalton and the Cincinnati Bengals would |
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