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Establish The Run Fantasy Football

Team-by-Team: Everything To Know Heading Into The Wild Card Round & NFL Awards Picks (Episode 953 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)

Establish The Run Fantasy Football

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Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.81.4K 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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