NFL Week 18 Recap: Ravens-Steelers SNF | Previewing EVERY Wild Card Game | Updated Draft Order
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and JP Acosta recap Week 18 around the NFL! The guys will break down the playoff bracket, preview the Wild Card round, go through the latest NFL Draft order and much more!
(00:00) Intro
(1:04) Ravens 24, Steelers 26
(8:08) Other Sunday Storylines
(14:59) Texans at Steelers Preview
(18:25) Bills at Jaguars Preview
(23:03) Chargers at Patriots Preview
(31:07) Rams at Panthers Preview
(35:23) 49ers at Eagles Preview
(42:19) Packers at Bears Preview
(49:26) Updated NFL Draft Order
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:15.6 | Welcome into this week 18 recap edition of pushing the pile. |
| 0:20.3 | Brought to you by Fando Sportsbook. |
| 0:21.5 | Make Every Moment More. |
| 0:23.7 | It was a wild Sunday night football game, JP. |
| 0:27.8 | We're going to get to that a second. |
| 0:29.3 | On today's show, though, we're going to recap a little bit of the rest of Week 18, |
| 0:34.1 | not much to get to today outside of that Sunday night football game. |
| 0:38.3 | But then we're going to go through and we're going to preview all the wild card slate, |
| 0:42.2 | give our first reactions, react to what the lines are from each and get to that. |
| 0:46.6 | But let's get to Sunday Night Football JPM where the Steelers hang on for a 26 to 24 win. |
| 0:53.1 | The big number from this one, it is zero. |
| 0:56.0 | That was the amount of misses that Tyler Loop had from under 50 in his career before that final miss. |
| 1:02.9 | Chris Boswell, heck, he had only two missed extra points the previous four years. |
| 1:07.0 | It was a kickoff at the end. |
| 1:09.5 | And, well, the Steelers come out on top. |
| 1:11.6 | They are your AFC North champions. |
| 1:14.1 | Neither of these teams deserve to make the playoff, if I'm going to be so honest with you. |
| 1:19.0 | But we had to – one of them had to be in, and I think the Steelers, for all of their warts |
| 1:25.0 | and for everything that is wrong with them. |
| 1:27.8 | I think in this game kind of showcased some of what Aaron Rogers can do at this stage of his career. |
| 1:33.7 | I mean, he made a couple of really nice throws. |
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