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Inside The Huddle

NFL Week 18 preview: The last week of the regular season, freezing cold studios & cans of 7Up!

Inside The Huddle

Sky Sports

Football, News, Sports News, Sports

4.4637 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Neil and Phoebe look ahead to the last week of the regular season in the NFL and (eventually!) select their picks, as Neil goes seven up. They discuss playoff scenarios, the Lions and the Colts missing out and why there’s still so much to play for in this unpredictable season!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Go inside the huddle with Sky Sports.

0:09.4

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Inside the Huddle.

0:13.9

Happy New Year to you all and happy new year to Phoebe Shakedo who's joining us again as we look ahead to week 18 in the regular season, the final

0:22.0

week of the regular season. Phoebe, happy new year. Happy New Year. I know that you and I were

0:28.4

messaging and both of us were very happy to be like the old fogies pretty much in bed before

0:34.9

it basically was the fireworks time. But 2026 is here, which means last week

0:41.4

of regular season, playoffs are on the way. Crazy. It is a crazy time. We're going to be together

0:47.3

in the studio on Saturday. You're in with Hannah and who are you with? Jeffrey. Yeah. Oh, Jeff. How dare I forget Jeff, uh, on Saturday night. And then you, me, J Bell and Jeff on Sunday night. We're going to be in a different studio from our main one, the one you were in last week, the one we were in on Sunday. There's a bit of snow on the ground, uh, here in Kent this morning. It's sub-zero temperatures,

1:11.8

but it's still not as cold as that studio.

1:14.8

Oh, I have no idea how we're going to survive. I was thinking this. I'm going to bring some

1:20.2

blankets. Look, just as a little background, they made the studio when it used to have like

1:26.7

the hot lights.

1:27.9

Now we're all, you know, economic and LEDs.

1:30.6

So they didn't put heating in there.

1:32.8

And now we just are like little icicles.

1:34.6

Yes.

1:35.6

Literally.

1:36.6

And the heater, it just blows cold air.

1:39.0

Yeah, the heater, I'm going to push back on the heater this week because the heater

1:43.2

just created a wind chill, I think.

1:45.2

By the time we reached our sofa, it was just windy. So it was good for the crew, not so much for us. So, yeah, then you're off to the, you're off on your travels. You're going to be on the road in the playoffs. I don't even know what's going to happen because we fly out Tuesday and we're kind of flying into the unknown

2:01.9

because obviously we won't really know we're going until Monday. We have some sort of idea,

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