Each NFL Team's Most Important Player and Which Young QBs Can Make "The Leap"

Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast with Kyle Long & Mike Renner

CBS Sports, Football, NFL

Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Mike Renner and Kyle Long decide which young QBs are ready to make "the Leap" to superstardom. Then they go through and pick the most important player on each NFL roster. Intro (0:00) QBs To Make "The Leap" (2:33) NFC East (17:08) NFC North (30:47) NFC West (37:17) NFC South (44:28) AFC East (51:48) AFC North (1:00:00) AFC West (1:08:58) AFC South (1:15:50) Pushing the Pile is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NFLonCBS Download and Follow Pushing the Pile on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2RFkEgdbFxbPBDU5F5xEjJ?si=1062d40c04e24fd5 Follow our PTP team on Twitter: @mikerenner_, @Ky1eLong, @pushingthepile Sign up for the Pick Six Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters For more NFL coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Visit the betting arena on CBSSports.com for all the latest sportsbook reviews and sportsbook promos. You can listen to Pushing the Pile on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Pushing the Pile podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Pushing the Pile podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome into this Wednesday edition of Pushing the Pile.
0:06.3	I'm Mike Rinner, he's Kyle Long.
0:08.1	Going through a few different things.
0:11.6	First we're going to start off with some quarterback talk, second year quarterbacks,
0:15.9	who's ready to make the lead, kind of contextualized last year's quarterback class a little
0:20.1	bit.
0:21.2	And then we're going to dive into most important player for every single team in the NFL this upcoming season that's
0:27.6	that's a heavy daunting task it is how did you i guess we'll just do this off the top how did you like
0:33.9	define important sue i'm so glad and you're such a you're such a bright mf because
0:39.0	when i first was reading this i was like hold on a second best player most important player
0:43.8	is this like the MVP conversation like yes we just list the quarterback death charts so i quote
0:49.2	i quote tweeted pushing the pile the the x account tweeted out our episode and what it contained and
0:55.8	I quote tweeted it and I said power train players players that without them your your car
1:02.0	ain't going nowhere um so obviously we've got a lot of stars on this list but there's some guys
1:07.7	that might make you think a little bit about why their impact
1:11.4	on the team is so important.
1:13.6	Yeah.
1:14.2	Yeah.
1:14.8	I think it's a good way to phrase it.
1:17.5	I went, my thought process was the player who has like the widest range of outcomes was
1:25.3	my thought process because, you know, so if you're the Kansas Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes, obviously,
1:32.6	your most important play, like your most valuable play.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 19 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CBS Sports, Football, NFL, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CBS Sports, Football, NFL and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.