NFL Wild Card Recap For EVERY Game: Chargers-Patriots, 49ers-Eagles, Bills-Jaguars | MORE!
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and JP Acosta recap every NFL Wild Card game through Sunday! The guys discuss their biggest takeaways from each matchup, look ahead to the Divisional Round and preview Monday’s game between the Texans and Steelers.
(00:00) Intro
(1:44) Chargers 3, Patriots 16
(14:30) 49ers 23, Eagles 19
(26:35) Bills 27, Jaguars 24
(35:41) Packers 27, Bears 31
(42:16) Rams 34, Panthers 31
(45:31) Bills at Broncos Preview
(48:55) 49ers at Seahawks Preview
(50:53) Rams at Bears Preview
(53:07) Texans at Steelers Preview
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into this wild card recap edition of Pushing the Pile, brought to by Fandall Sportsbook, make every moment more. |
| 0:22.4 | JP, the pod has had better weekends. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, I mean, if you saw my social media at like around like 3.45, 4 p.m. today. We've had better, better days, better days. |
| 0:43.3 | Yeah, me last night with the Packers, I made the mistake, and I'm going to admit this live on here. |
| 0:50.9 | I made the mistake of saying, my buddy texted me as a Lions fan. |
| 0:54.3 | He said, you worry about tonight at like 1 p.m. |
| 0:57.5 | I said, no, I think the Packers are going to move the ball through the air. |
| 1:02.5 | I think like that they got that. |
| 1:06.3 | Half time I replied to my own text and said, see, or I said something to the effect of what did I say. |
| 1:14.8 | I said, what did I say? |
| 1:16.5 | And that was the kiss of death because the third quarter, they came out and looked like absolute dog, |
| 1:21.7 | you know what, and we'll get to that one later. |
| 1:24.9 | But it was ugly for both of us. |
| 1:27.2 | But we'll get to those games. |
| 1:28.7 | Let's start with Sunday night football, where the Chargers go down at the hands of the Patriots. |
| 1:34.4 | 16 to 3, a defensive struggle there. |
| 1:38.0 | And we're going to be given our big numbers for all the games and the big number for this one, |
| 1:41.0 | for me at least, because I can't wait for the discourse, is negative 22. |
| 1:46.4 | That is Justin Herbert's career EPA in the playoffs now through three games, |
| 1:52.3 | the worst of any quarterback in the NFL over the past decade in the playoffs, |
| 1:57.4 | tied with one guy actually. |
| 1:59.1 | Do you have any guess as to who the one guy is? |
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