Grading EVERY NFL Head Coaching Hire + Offseason Plan For EVERY Divisional Round Loser
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Mike Renner and JP Acosta update the NFL coaching carousel. They also break down film from the Divisional Round and give offseason plans for every team that lost this weekend!
(00:00) Indiana Wins CFP Title Game
(4:22) Coaching Carousel
(28:48) Film Breakdown
(50:27) Bills Offseason Plan
(55:09) Texans Offseason Plan
(59:40) Bears Offseason Plan
(1:03:42) 49ers Offseason Plan
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| 0:00.0 | What's up? |
| 0:15.2 | Welcome into this Tuesday edition of Pushing the Pile. |
| 0:19.4 | Coaching edition, we got a lot of coaching updates. |
| 0:22.0 | Today on the show, we have J.P.'s playbook as well, |
| 0:25.0 | and then we're going to wrap it up with a little offseason plan |
| 0:27.3 | for all the divisional round losers. |
| 0:31.2 | First, though, J.P., what were your thoughts on that national title? |
| 0:34.6 | Indiana, taking it home last night? |
| 0:37.2 | That is the greatest story in college football history. |
| 0:40.6 | It is. |
| 0:41.3 | Like, bar none. |
| 0:42.5 | I mean, the fact that Indiana, three years ago, won two games. |
| 0:47.5 | They were a two and ten team and now have not only won the national championship, |
| 0:51.7 | but they've lost two games in two years. |
| 0:54.3 | That's incredible, the turnaround that they've had. |
| 0:57.0 | I thought the game was super impressive when it comes to winning within the margins. |
| 1:01.2 | And I just think as a hater, it is very funny that Miami lost a national championship |
| 1:06.4 | at home to a Cuban quarterback from Miami that they did not want. |
| 1:11.1 | Dude, I mean, the moment with Fernando Mendoza, |
| 1:15.8 | the fourth down draw play, fourth and five, two, |
| 1:19.0 | quarterback draw on that situation, |
| 1:21.0 | to end in a score, they cut to his mom who has MS in the stands, |
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