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NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal

NFL Week 18 Picks with Cynthia Frelund | Capitalizing on Teams Resting Starters

NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal

NFL

Football, Sports

4.512.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Gregg Rosenthal and Cynthia Frelund put their heads together for the final picks show of the 2025 NFL regular season. In Week 18, the duo searches for advantageous matchups given the fact several playoff teams will be resting starters in the regular season finale.

Matchups discussed:

Los Angeles Chargers at Denver Broncos

Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings

Arizona Cardinals at Los Angeles Rams

Final Regular Season Picks + Other Options to Consider

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:09.0

Welcome to NFL Daily, where all good things must come to an end.

0:13.5

I'm Greg Rosenthal here in the Chris Wesleying podcast video.

0:17.6

And I'm not referring to 2025.

0:19.8

Happy New Year, by the way, to everyone listening.

0:22.4

I'm not talking even about this pick show because we're going straight through the playoffs.

0:26.7

I'm talking about what was the greatest streak in sports.

0:29.4

I have 12 straight winning weeks on this show, picking only three games a week against the spread,

0:34.5

and it all came crashing down at the hands of Kirk Cousins and

0:39.7

Bajon Robinson and that Falcons team. So I went one and two. I'm still very happy,

0:43.4

32 and 19 on the season. And most importantly, Cynthia is coming off an undefeated week.

0:50.0

There we go. You're going to be hot going into the playoffs. Welcome, Cynthia Freeland.

0:54.6

Thanks.

0:55.1

You ready for a final week?

0:57.2

This is a tricky trickster week.

1:00.2

I think it's a week of opportunity.

1:01.7

I'm glad the NFL does not let us actually pick these games and put our money behind it.

1:08.7

But I do think it's a week where you kind of can understand the motivations of different team

1:13.3

and take advantage of some crazy lines.

1:16.6

It's a very difficult week for Vegas to set these lines.

1:20.4

Wouldn't you agree?

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