Divisional Round Picks and Giants Hire John Harbaugh with Cynthia Frelund
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Gregg Rosenthal and NFL Network’s Cynthia Frelund drop their picks for the Divisional Round of the playoffs. They also discuss the news that John Harbaugh will be the next head coach of the New York Giants. They break down Los Angeles Rams vs. Chicago Bears (02:04), Buffalo Bills vs. Denver Broncos (06:34), San Francisco 49ers vs. Seattle Seahawks (13:03), and the news that John Harbaugh is the next coach of the New York Giants (17:08).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.4 | Welcome to NFL Daily, where the Giants landed their man. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Greg Rosenthal here in stage five with my friend, Cynthia Freeland. |
| 0:18.4 | We are fresh off a taping of game day view. You can check us out on NFL |
| 0:22.7 | Network Friday night, Sunday morning, whenever. But we're going to go through our picks |
| 0:28.2 | against the spread. As always, Cynthia, you're coming off a winning week. And we're also going to |
| 0:33.6 | talk a little bit about John Harbaugh, the new head coach of the New York Giants at the back end. Love it. Get you an analyst like Cynthia who can do everything. Not just pick the games. We're going to talk some ball. We're going to talk some coaches. A lot of people I heard from last week like the coaching kind of dot connecting we did. And some of it'sne fruit over the last week. I know. I mean, |
| 0:55.0 | I can't wait to see where everyone ends up, especially now that the Steelers have the opening as well. Like lots of turnover, lots of turnover. I know. I don't want to pat ourselves on the back too hard, but everyone going like, this shocking coaching cycle, all these shocks here and there. I was like, If you were listening to NFL Daily last month, we were saying, like, we thought Tomlin and Harbaugh that there was a real chance that both of them would be gone. That's what happened. But let's get into the games. Only eight teams left. And so this makes it tougher to make our picks. You went two and one last week. I went one and two. I am blaming the Packers for everything wrong that happened to me last weekend and in my life. |
| 1:34.2 | I'm still at 36 and 21. |
| 1:36.0 | You're having an awesome season. |
| 1:37.4 | I'm feeling great, but you're eight and one over the last three weeks on this show. |
| 1:41.6 | So that means you get to go first. |
| 1:43.6 | I'm curious what you're most confident picking. |
| 1:46.1 | Cause I gotta admit, if this was a normal Sunday, |
| 1:49.6 | I think there's only at most one of these four games |
| 1:52.5 | that would have made my best picks of the week, |
| 1:55.8 | where I just knew right away what I wanted to do. |
| 1:58.6 | I'm curious where you go first. |
| 2:00.1 | Well, I'm gonna go with a team that |
| 2:01.8 | burnt me last week, but I think this week in freezing cold conditions, they pull through and |
| 2:07.1 | they win by more than four points, and that's the Rams. I understand it's going to be two degrees, |
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