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

Grading Every AFC Team's Free Agency

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

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Mike Renner is joined by Bryant McFadden to give out grades for every AFC team after the first round of free agency. Which teams got steals and which teams overpaid? Intro (0:00) AFC North Grades (:38) AFC South Grades (19:49) AFC East Grades (34:53) AFC West Grades (49:33) Superlatives (1:04:17) 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

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0:00.0

What's up? Welcome in today's episode of Pushing the Pile, brought to you by Fandall Sportsbook, Make Every Moment More.

0:08.4

Brian McFadden joins the show today to break down all things, AFC Free Agency. We're going team by team, division by division, and giving grades for how each team did did and basically what was, in my opinion,

0:23.3

a fairly tame for agency period. BMack, how you doing today though, brother?

0:27.6

Mike, I'm doing wonderful. It's a great day to be alive. So let's take advantage of it.

0:32.9

Yes, sir. We got 16 teams to cover. So let's dive right in to the AFC North. We'll start with the Baltimore Ravens, who again, like I said, it was a fairly tame free agency period for a lot of teams. And although it's not over, the Ravens are one team that often takes advantage of that later parts of the free agency period. Think like the j david clownie move a few years ago

0:55.0

they oftentimes get those guys who are cut by other teams who don't factor into the you know

1:00.5

compensatory pick formula but their free agency period went a little something like this they retained

1:05.7

ronnie stanley they br started off with a bang getting him done before the tampering period opened up retained

1:11.9

Patrick Ricard, retained Ben Cleveland, signed DeAndre Hopkins to a small deal.

1:16.9

That was really the only notable one and the only notable loss.

1:19.6

Patrick McCarrie, who was their versatile offensive linemen from a season ago,

1:23.2

well, they lost him to the Jacksonville Jaguar.

1:26.8

So all those moves, BMAC, what kind of grade do you give him the Ravens free agency?

1:31.3

Yo, Mike, I gave the Ravens a B-minus so far during free agency.

1:38.0

You talked about the big catch they needed to retain left tackle Ronnie Stanley.

1:43.3

We all felt like he wasn't going to go anywhere right

1:46.3

so that wasn't a surprising move and retaining his services uh patrick ricard you talked about the

1:51.5

versatile you know do it all offensive weapon for them he's a huge plus losing patrick mccar micari

1:58.0

you talked about the versatility uh he's very, very versatile, lost him to Jacksonville.

2:02.9

But outside of, you know, Ronnie Stanley, Ben Cleveland, of course, you know,

2:07.0

I understand you brought in D'Andre Hopkins, but let's keep,

2:10.1

D'Andre is closer to the end of his career than the beginning.

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