Championship Weekend Picks with Cynthia Frelund + Ravens Hire Jesse Minter as Head Coach
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Gregg Rosenthal and NFL Network’s Cynthia Frelund tell you their picks for the Conference Championship Round of the playoffs. They also discuss the latest news around the NFL including the news that Jesse Minter is going to be the new head coach of the Baltimore Ravens. They talk New England Patriots at Denver Broncos (01:51), Los Angeles Rams at Seattle Seahawks (08:32), Jesse Minter is New Head Coach of Baltimore Ravens (15:05), Christian Parker is New DC of Dallas Cowboys (21:36), Zack Robinson is New OC of Tampa Bay Buccaneers (26:21), and the MVP Finalists and Other Award Finalists (28:19).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.8 | Welcome to NFL Daily, where like Billy Bean, our ish just doesn't work in the playoffs. |
| 0:13.4 | My name is Greg Rosenthal. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm here on stage five, where we just taped another electric episode of Game Day View. |
| 0:20.3 | Check that out on NFL Network, because it's with my co-host, |
| 0:23.6 | the brilliant Cynthia Freeland, |
| 0:25.4 | who's eight and two picking games straight up in the playoffs |
| 0:29.7 | and is crushing me against the spread in the playoffs when I refer to Billy Bean. |
| 0:34.4 | I don't know if you remember that quote. |
| 0:35.8 | Oh, okay, the former general manager of the Oakland A's who just said his stuff didn't work in the playoffs. I mean, I appreciate the honesty. Yeah, I went 0 and three last week. Look, I'm still at, rushing for the season. I'm still at 36 and 24. That's 60% that's solid. 60% G, I kind of want to just like quit right here. I mean absolutely you kind of |
| 0:56.6 | have to. Yeah, because there's actually no way to land on 60% from here on out. So no. Look, it is kind of, |
| 1:02.3 | this is obvious, but it's a good lesson for people who are putting real hard and money out there. |
| 1:08.9 | Like everyone goes harder in the playoffs when really that doesn't make as much sense. |
| 1:13.6 | Because in a normal week, you're not really going to want to be picking every game with authority. |
| 1:18.2 | And you have way less games to choose from, which means you have less opportunities to use a Cynthia. |
| 1:24.1 | Mind your units, you know? |
| 1:25.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.8 | Mind your units. |
| 1:26.9 | I am excited to talk about these two conference championship games. We're just going to pick them against the spread because we have to. There's only two left. But we're also going to talk a little news. Jesse Minter is the new Baltimore Ravens head coach and some coordinator news. That's really interesting. Cynthia's really tied in with the whole coaching world, so I've been enjoying getting her perspective these last couple weeks. But let's start with the games. Let's start with the AFC Championship. As we're taping, the lines come down a little bit for Denver, and Denver is now a four and a half point underdog at home. I was stunned by what your computer model spit out for game debut. |
| 2:07.3 | I have the Broncos winning it straight up by one point. |
| 2:10.7 | Straight up though. |
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