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Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast

Predicting Win Totals for EVERY TEAM in the AFC: Can Ravens and Texans live up to the hype?

Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast

CBS Sports, Football, NFL

Football, Sports

4.22.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Mike Renner and Kyle Long are joined by JP Acosta to touch on James Cook's new MEGADEAL and Jordan Love's surgery before handing out win totals for EVERY TEAM in the AFC.


Intro (0:00)

James Cook Signs Megadeal (3:48)

Jordan Love has Surgery (7:08)

AFC North (10:20)

AFC South (23:15)

AFC East (39:06)

AFC West (55:44)


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome into this Wednesday edition of Pushing the Pile, Mike Renner, Kyle Long, very special guests today.

0:13.1

J.P. Acosta back on the program, and we will be going through win totals for the AFC.

0:19.9

We're doing AFC today and i see tomorrow this show obviously

0:22.7

brought to you by fiendel sports book make every moment more jp before we get to these wind tolls

0:28.7

before we get some of the first off the ball here i saw you were diving deep into week one to preseason

0:32.6

any big takeaways because we debated it we talked about on monday anything from your perspective

0:36.6

that you want to call out that you saw willie lampkin might be my favorite player in the yes i'm i just

0:43.8

love how he plays he's a fight i understand he's 511 i understand he's maybe 280 pounds that guy can

0:50.8

play some football i love watching him play the way he's able to get under defenders, and he's a former high school wrestler, high school wrestling champion, and you can tell when he plays, he was dirtying people all game against the Cowboys. And I'm just like, you know what? I just want to see it in a game, in a real regular season game. I don't care if you put him at Guard Center, line him up at fullback. I just think wherever you put him, he's going to be able to play really well. So my takeaway is I need some more Willie Lampkin in my life. Yeah, we love Willie Lampkin here, dude. That's like the best thing you could have said to start the podcast was to give a little bit of glaze,

1:27.6

as the kids would say, told Willie Lampkin. You know what? Willie Lampkin and I have something

1:32.3

in common, not only the wrestling background, but his trainer and his agency is La Charles Bentley.

1:39.4

And if you know who La Charles Bentley is in the football community now and the role he serves to young

1:45.0

offensive lineman. It's impressive. But if you remember La Charles Bentley as a football player,

1:50.7

he was a face eater, a destroyer of worlds on the line of scrimmage. And any young senator

1:55.7

has the opportunity to work with him is learning from the best. So tip of the cap to LB and tip of the cap to Willie

2:01.8

Lampkin again. Yeah, Charles, he kind of pioneered the, what do we call it? This like space

2:08.5

that's grown huge now, which is like, well, people know O-line masterminds now. They see guys like

2:13.8

Lane Johnson, Creed Humphrey, Trey Smith. They go down to these seminars at the O-Line masterminds.

2:20.4

And, you know, another shout out to Duke Manyweather.

2:22.8

But the guy who founded this whole thing was Charles Bentley and to really specialize offensive line training.

2:29.3

And I would go out to Arizona and it would be nothing but the best offensive linemen and only

2:35.1

offensive linemen in the gym. No reporters in the gym, no other positions, just O-Line getting

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