Giants HIRING John Harbaugh As Head Coach + Preview & Picks For EVERY Divisional Round Game
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and JP Acosta react to the New York Giants finalizing a deal to make John Harbaugh their new head coach. They also preview and pick every Divisional Round game for the NFL Playoffs and rank position groups for the 2026 NFL Draft!
(00:00) Intro
(4:26) Giants Hiring John Harbaugh
(13:33) Bills vs Broncos Preview/Picks
(23:02) 49ers vs Seahawks Preview/Picks
(30:30) Texans vs Patriots Preview/Picks
(44:32) Rams vs Bears Preview/Picks
(51:07) Ranking 2026 NFL Draft Position Groups
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into this Thursday edition of Pushing the Pile. |
| 0:19.2 | Divisional Round Preview Edition, brought to you by Fandle Sportsbook, Make Every Moment |
| 0:23.5 | More. |
| 0:24.0 | We are previewing every divisional round game here on the show. |
| 0:27.2 | Towards the end, we're going to get to a little draft preview as well. |
| 0:31.4 | We're going to be ranking the positional groups. |
| 0:33.4 | Yesterday was the deadline to declare for everyone not in the national championship game. |
| 0:38.4 | That one's next week for those teams. |
| 0:40.6 | We'll see who is in and out from Indiana and Miami. |
| 0:45.2 | A lot of prospects on both sides, unsurprisingly, in that one. |
| 0:48.5 | But we're going to preview each position group, strongest. |
| 0:51.9 | We're going to go weakest to strongest at the end. |
| 0:55.1 | But JP, a lot of people say that the divisional round is the best week of football of the year. |
| 1:00.9 | Four games, always hotly contested. |
| 1:04.1 | Would you agree with that assessment? |
| 1:05.9 | Because we have that, we have the national championship as well then on Monday. |
| 1:09.6 | Is this really the best football weekend of the year? |
| 1:12.8 | It's going to be tough between the divisional round weekend, wild card weekend, |
| 1:17.3 | and then I actually think conference championship weekend in college football is super fun. |
| 1:21.9 | But the divisional round, the games pick up intensity-wise. |
| 1:24.9 | These are four of the best teams in each respective conference. |
| 1:31.3 | So I think the intensity of it, and plus knowing that these two teams or out of these four |
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