FULL Divisional Round Recap: Reaction To EVERY Result + Early AFC & NFC Championship Previews!
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and JP Acosta recap all 4 NFL playoff games from the Divisional Round and provide an early preview for the NFC and AFC Championship Games!
(00:00) Intro
(2:01) Rams 20, Bears 17 - OT
(12:11) Texans 16, Patriots 28
(21:13) 49ers 6, Seahawks 41
(27:34) Bills 30, Broncos 33 - OT
(42:00) AFC Championship Preview
(46:54) NFC Championship Preview
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:15.9 | Welcome into this Sunday divisional round recap edition of pushing the pile. |
| 0:20.8 | Mike Brenner, J.P. Acosta. JP, we lamented. this Sunday divisional round recap edition of pushing the pile. |
| 0:29.7 | Mike Brenner, J.P. Acosta, JP, we lamented our wildcard exits for our beloved Packers and Jaguars, respectively here last week. |
| 0:31.6 | But the next best thing happened outside of our teams win the Super Bowl, which is that no division rival of ours will win the Super Bowl after both took tough L's this week. |
| 0:42.7 | If our teams can't win it, nobody can't. |
| 0:45.6 | We're bringing everybody down with us. |
| 0:47.9 | Every year, so once Pax's eliminated, I try to find the team that's like, |
| 0:53.5 | who do I not want to succeed the least? |
| 0:59.0 | Like, who am I the least a hater of is kind of how I pick who I want to win? |
| 1:03.3 | Who do I least hate and who's going to bring me the least amount of negative energy over |
| 1:09.6 | the course of the off season? |
| 1:10.6 | That's basically who I end up rooting for when it's all sitting there. |
| 1:14.0 | I think for me, it's more of a, all right, which game do I think will be the coolest? |
| 1:18.7 | Once my team needs a playoffs and once like the hater, the hater bowl is going, I'm just |
| 1:24.2 | choosing which game I think would be the coolest. |
| 1:26.4 | See, for me now, it's easily the Broncos. Jared Stidham, like when the Eagles had Nick Foles, I was the biggest Eagles fan that year. I was like, let's get craziness, right? I want something nuts to happen. I want Jared Stidham to go off in the ASC championship because we'll get to that later, but obviously he is your starter with Boenix out with Broke Neck. Well, let's get to the Sunday night football game |
| 1:47.7 | that we just wait. in the ASC championship because we'll get to that later. But obviously he is your starter with Bonix out with the broken egg. |
| 1:46.5 | Let's get to the Sunday night football game that we just witnessed a wild one, |
| 1:49.7 | probably one of the crazier all-time plays in playoff history occurred in this game, |
| 1:56.2 | the Cole commit touchdown with less than 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter. |
| 2:00.1 | But ultimately, the Rams win on a walkoff field goal in overtime, 20 to 17. |
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