Exposing the Achilles Heel of Each Playoff Team in 2025
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and Kyle Long divulge each 2024 playoff team's Achilles Heel heading into the season. What Fatal flaw will stop the best teams from making the Super Bowl?
Intro (0:00)
Chiefs and Eagles (0:30)
Bills and Commanders (9:13)
Ravens and Lions (18:07)
Texans and Rams (26:30)
Wildcard Teams (36:00)
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| 0:00.0 | What's up? Welcome into today's episode of Pushing the Pile. I'm Mike Renner, joined as always by my |
| 0:12.8 | co-host, Kyle Long, and on this very special one hour long episode, we're going to be going |
| 0:18.0 | through the Achilles heels of all of last year's |
| 0:21.7 | playoff teams. What part of the roster or what part of the coaching staff for some of these |
| 0:26.3 | could potentially sink teams that were on the precipice of a Super Bowl last year? |
| 0:31.9 | We're going to start with the teams actually that weren't on the precipice of Super Bowl |
| 0:34.3 | last year. We're going to start with our Super Bowl champion, Philadelphia Eagles, work our way back down. Kyle, they don't have a lot of weaknesses. |
| 0:41.7 | This is a good team. They are the reigning Lombardi champion holders for a reason, |
| 0:47.4 | but there's got to be an Achilles heel somewhere, right? What do you got? |
| 0:52.0 | Well, I'll just go from the low-hanging fruit, the cliche stuff. |
| 0:55.5 | Like, you know, success is the Achilles heel. You've had so much success. And you and I have talked |
| 1:00.0 | about this on the Pushing of the Pile podcast before. You wonder what version of the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1:07.6 | are we going to see? Is it going to be the confident group that's going to attain something else? Are they going to rest on their laurels? Will there be infighting? |
| 1:15.1 | Look, there's been a lot of questions about this team, but one question I'll never have is about |
| 1:19.5 | the talent that Howie Roseman has brought into the building, the way that the coaches at the |
| 1:24.0 | different positions have developed their talent, and they've gotten the most out of all their players. |
| 1:29.7 | If I really had to have a gripe about this group is, are we going to see consistent play from their superstars up front? |
| 1:36.8 | They've invested a lot in that defensive line. |
| 1:39.1 | I'd love to see guys like Jalen Carter be a down-in, down downout threat instead of the best player on the field |
| 1:45.5 | every once in a while. Yeah, see, I look at this Eagles roster. And you mentioned Ty Roesman. |
| 1:53.1 | He's still dealing. He's still trying to improve it. They literally just traded for Jacorian |
| 1:56.4 | Bennett from the Las Vegas Raiders today, right, to get him on that roster, the cornerback. |
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