Team-by-Team: Everything To Know Heading Into The Wild Card Round & NFL Awards Picks (Episode 953 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva analyse and dissect every playoff team heading into the NFL playoffs, assessing the key takeaways for each team and their reactions to all the key talking points, injuries and breakout performances.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:38 - Chicago Bears
9:21 - Green Bay Packers
13:05 - Philadelphia Eagles
16:13 - San Francisco 49ers
21:20 - Carolina Panthers
27:55 - Los Angeles Rams
33:12 - Seattle Seahawks
39:35 - New England Patriots
46:12 - Los Angeles Chargers
48:31 - Jacksonville Jaguars
51:55 - Buffalo Bills
54:32 - Pittsburgh Steelers
56:46 - Houston Texans
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 953 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. My name is Adam Levitan. |
| 0:23.9 | I am one of the co-founders here at ETR. As always, joined by fellow co-founder Evan Silva. |
| 0:29.2 | And the playoffs are here. Evan, how's it going today? Happy playoffs. Yeah, bring on the playoffs and you're |
| 0:35.2 | turning the page. I think we had a really good year overall. |
| 0:39.4 | Leone crushed it, you crushed it. |
| 0:41.2 | I feel good about how I finished up. |
| 0:43.7 | My week 18, I mean, I was wrong about everything. |
| 0:47.5 | That was a humbling experience. |
| 0:49.7 | I need to apologize to the people for my performance. |
| 0:52.8 | I got to do better than that. |
| 0:54.6 | Goodness gracious. I mean, I don't think I the people for my performance. I got to do better than that. Goodness gracious. |
| 0:55.7 | I mean, I don't think I got a single thing right in week 18. |
| 0:59.3 | So I am very thankful to be turning the page and heading into the playoffs. |
| 1:04.1 | Yes, we will have much steadier roles, projections, et cetera, for the playoffs, |
| 1:10.0 | obviously where we know every team's motivation and how |
| 1:12.1 | they're going to play it. On today's show, we're going to go team by team through all 14 |
| 1:18.5 | NFL franchises that are still alive, discussing what we saw in week 18 and what it means |
| 1:24.0 | going forward. I got to say, the action for the fantasy playoffs is so wild. |
| 1:29.0 | It's like a whole new drafting season just in this one to two week kind of period here, |
| 1:33.8 | last week and this week. |
| 1:35.1 | All of our rankings are updated and continuously updating, of course. |
| 1:38.9 | For best ball product subscribers, rankings for draft kings and underdog, |
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