NFL Playoffs RECAP: AFC & NFC Championship Reaction + EARLY Super Bowl LX Preview!
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and JP Acosta recap the AFC and NFC Championship games. The guys also go through an early preview for Super Bowl LX where the Seahawks will face the Patriots.
(0:00) - Intro
(2:00) - NFC Championship recap (Seahawks 31 - Rams 27)
(18:00) - AFC Championship recap (Patriots 10 - Broncos 7)
(31:00) - Super Bowl LX Preview
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:16.4 | Welcome into this Sunday championship edition of pushing the pile, Mike Brenner, JP Costa. |
| 0:23.3 | JP, it felt like we watched two different sports today. |
| 0:28.1 | Like the what we just saw in the Odyssey Championship was not the same game as what we saw in the AFC Championship. |
| 0:35.0 | It felt like two different eras of the sport. |
| 0:38.0 | With Pat's Broncos, it felt like a real, like, you know, the old, like, NFL films, |
| 0:43.6 | like the old, like, vintage, like, games you'd see on, like, NFL network that they'll play, |
| 0:48.1 | like, in the offseason when there's nothing going on. |
| 0:50.0 | It felt like watching that. |
| 0:51.3 | And compared to Ram Seahawks, which just felt like an explosion of just huge moments in every single point in the game. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.3 | And as much as obviously the weather affected that first game, this did, I saw Trevor Sigma tweeted during the game. |
| 1:07.4 | This game is a Super Bowl. |
| 1:08.7 | Then it's a championship game. |
| 1:09.4 | This is what it felt like this game just had much more, |
| 1:12.7 | much more players making plays, right? |
| 1:16.0 | Like the first game was kind of just, like you said, |
| 1:19.5 | it felt like old school team football. |
| 1:22.5 | We're going to, you know, we move the ball a little bit, punt it back. |
| 1:25.8 | It's just field position sort of battle. |
| 1:27.2 | This was like our guys can go out in this Seahawks Rams game. |
| 1:32.0 | And it's just which team is going to have the playmaker make the play when it matters most. |
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