AFC Teams Best and Worst Case Scenarios for 2025
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and Kyle Long are joined by Brock Vereen to discuss banning smelling salts, Jordan Addison's suspension and the Eagles-Raiders trade. Then they look at each team in the AFC's best and worst case scenarios for the upcoming season. Intro (0:00)
NFL Bans Smelling Salts (1:55)
Jordan Addison Suspended (5:22)
Eagles-Raiders Trade (8:58)
AFC North (12:14)
AFC South (27:38)
AFC East (44:47)
AFC West (1:01:26)
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:07.8 | Welcome back to today's episode of Pushing the Pryl. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm Mike Renner. |
| 0:11.3 | He's Kyle Long as always. |
| 0:12.9 | And today we have a very special guest. |
| 0:14.4 | Brock Boreen joins the program. |
| 0:16.9 | We're just talking about it. |
| 0:17.6 | Brock Red West Coast time. |
| 0:18.6 | We're recording at 10 a.m. |
| 0:19.4 | I feel bad at 7 a.m. out there for it. |
| 0:21.6 | Football doesn't sleep, man. Football does not sleep. Once training camp starts, it's a 24-7 sport, and I'm happy. What's the best time zone you guys pick? If you could pick any time zone, which time zone you pick? It is the West Coast time zone. time zone and yes i am i'm completely biased but |
| 0:39.8 | by the time the games are over i still have time to go out and do things that's what people |
| 0:47.1 | are missing and that's what the east coast doesn't understand and plus you say midwest you stay up for |
| 0:52.9 | the you can be up for the primetime games on the East Coast, |
| 0:56.1 | and you get to watch the artist formerly known as the Pac-12 play. |
| 1:01.8 | You can even watch your favorite Hawaii, you know, are they the fighting... |
| 1:07.7 | Rainbow Warriors. |
| 1:09.7 | It depends if you're a long-panter-in-in-you-in-you-in-west. Now, if you're a long pan in the Midwest now if you're out west |
| 1:14.5 | you miss some of the east if you're back east because those night games you didn't get to |
| 1:19.2 | see Caleb Williams so I would argue it's the Midwest because you get a little bit of everything |
| 1:23.7 | I do think I was spoiled as a child you don't want to be on East Coast time. |
| 1:28.5 | Like games go to like midnight 1 a.m. |
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