NFL Week 18 Recap: Lions smash Vikings for NFC No.1 Seed, Broncos punch playoff ticket + More

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

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Mike Renner is joined by John Breech to discuss all the Week 18 action across the NFL! Intro (0:00) Lions smash Vikings for NFC No.1 Seed (2:49) Broncos Punch Playoff Ticket (10:27) Patriots Win Game, Lose No.1 Pick, Fire Jerod Mayo (13:52) Packers add Injury to Insult (19:47) Backup QB Report (24:27) Steelers reeling into Playoffs (30:26) Go for 2: Bengals only have themselves to blame for not making the playoffs (34:56) Go for 2: Dolphins should trade Tyreek Hill (37:14) Playoff Wildcard Game Power Rankings (41:05) Final 2025 Draft Order (46:46) 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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0:40.4	I'm Mike Renner, joined by none of than our resident Bengals fan, John Breach, tonight.
0:46.1	And John, I want to start with this.
0:47.9	Take us through the roller coaster of emotions that was a Bengals fan over the course of this weekend.
0:53.8	So let me tell you, Saturday night, you know, the roller coaster is going up the hill.
0:58.0	There's some zigzags.
0:59.4	The Bengals go up 10-0.
1:00.8	We are peaking about to hit that first big hill where you throw your hands up in the air
1:05.3	and you go nuts and you think it's all over.
1:07.9	Then it's 19 to 17 and the Steelers are driving to win the game and you see
1:11.7	that half the track is missing. You think you're surely going to go off it and die. Somehow you
1:16.3	ramp over it because Russell Wilson somehow 10 years into the NFL does not know how to manage
1:21.7	a clock. Pat Friberman decides he can't catch a ball. So they win that game. And then Mike,
1:27.3	let me just tell you that roughly 98 seconds into the Broncos
1:30.9	Chiefs game, all hope was lost.
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